all i can say is thank goodness my kids are italian because they can never complain to me that we eat pasta to often...its the one thing i can creatively cook with confidence!! i made another Kraft recipe tonight and once again my kids loved it!! it really does make cooking much less a chore when i know someone is appreciating what i am cooking!
i had my "every 6 months" review at work today. it was awesome. totally confirmed all these positive feelings i have been having about my life lately. my boss and i dont get to work together all that often so we dont really have much time for conversation. it was so nice today to have her undivided attention for about 45 minutes, we were able to touch base on so much and i felt great when our chat was over! it so wonderful to work for a company of thousands of people but still have the feeling of importance. im not just a number in corporate america, i am shannon, a very valued barista! when i started at starbucks i never would have imagined it to turn into such an important part of my life. i tell everyone, it was my "get me through college" job...well i will have been with the company for 7 years this august...i only went to college for 2 and one of those years i was working at supercuts! i dont know if there could ever be enough words to describe what starbucks has done for me and how it has helped to make my life what it is. when we lived in CO, my fellow partners and my customers were my family away from home. i loved them all dearly and have been fortunate enough to keep in touch with many friends from the powers and constitution group. through starbucks i found one of my most treasured friends, kellie - she and i have more starbucks stories that we could tell, most of which i can assure you would rather not hear!! oh the crazy nights...chai and vanilla vodka on a friday night...we would never! at least not while we were working!!
anyway....i also got online tonight to see about getting preapproved for a mortgage, it looks like we might actually have a chance at buying the house this year. obviously we would need to actually sit down with someone and get some "real" numbers, but i think it may be closer in reach than i would have guessed. there are just a lot of details that need to be looked at, closing costs, etc... so hopefully in a few months this will be something that i am posting about in a much more serious way. right now i think i need to keep the focus on paying off the rest of the small debts because im not sure the bank would be happy with our debt to income ratio right now!! that had posed a small problem when frank and i tried to get our mortgage in CO and that was before we had kids! so we'll see, summertime may have more than just a fun trip in store for us!
speaking of the trip, i pulled out my list of zoo's that are covered by our family membership...there are 7 zoo's in KS that we could potentially visit, one of which is right in the city that kellie and randy will be living in! so hopefully we will be able to pick a few of them to entertain our days with the kids while we are there. there is only one zoo in CO that is covered by the membership, down in pueblo...but we have never been to that one so maybe it will be worth checking out, an early morning trip to the zoo followed by a picnic lunch at royal gorge!?! i cant wait...it is so exciting to know that we are heading back to CO for a few days this summer. it is definitely a place that we want our kids to be familiar with because it is the place that frank and i started our life together. so much of who we are as a couple is because of the life we lived in CO and i think we could both honestly admit that if the time was right and a good opportunity came about, we would move back there are some point while our kids are school age just to share the experience with them. there is something different about CO that you just dont get here...be it the mountains, the fresher air, the non-stop sunshine or the people...i think over the last few years frank and i have become more 'home-sick' from CO than we ever were from buffalo!! we missed family while we were gone, and good pizza...but there is so much more that we miss about CO. who ever knows where life will lead us, but i can say, we we're led to God in CO so something tells me that He will lead us back there again someday!
tonight i also want to say a prayer for all my closest friends. (you know who you are and what your personal struggles are right now)
Lord, i ask that you watch over my girlfriends and their families as their lives are being faced with some changes and new challenges. be with them to guide them in the right directions, answer their prayers as you see fit and help them to see what your plan may be for them in the coming days, weeks and months. help to ease them through their transitions, be it what they are and lay a hand of peace over them as they become settled in their new routines. they are all such amazing women Lord and my life is so much richer because of the relationships i share with them and i pray for nothing but the best for them Lord. in your sons holy name, jesus christ, amen.
i love you ladies and i truly hope that this year brings as much peace to your home and your heart as it seems to be bringing to me! keep your heads up, your hearts open and keep up the good (God) work!
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