Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

They always seem to come in three's and that was the case one week in September.....It started out with CJ getting hand foot and mouth disease. It is so awful and miserable and there is not much you can do to help them get better, and it is super contagious! Then a few days later I hear that my baby niece passed away.... I can hardly put into words the grief everyone in my family was feeling for my brother's family. Then a few days later Jeff lost his job. Life was going downhill very fast and I didn't know what to do. I was loving life in Virginia Beach. I was had really great friends, a great calling where I felt I was actually making a difference and felt real purpose in life. I was confident in myself and feeling the best I had felt in a long time. Jeff and I were going on dates regularly which hadn't happened before CJ was born. I was going to the gym regularly with a friend and challenging myself in a swim class and it made me feel so good. I missed family and hated that CJ was not growing up knowing family very much but I was not ready to leave yet. In the back of my mind I thought that we might eventually move back west but I was not ready yet. We had only been there 7 months and I couldn't take being uprooted again. Jeff was ready to move back to California, he knew that was what we should do immediately. He wanted CJ to be near family, that was his number one priority and we definitely had a couple job opportunities in California so it was a possibility. I was in denial for awhile only because I knew that is what we should do but I didn't want to admit that I was leaving my happy life for the unknown.

We spent the next two months getting everything in order to move to Tracy, CA. I spent those two months soaking up as much of the east coast as I could with Jeff, CJ and friends.

Sweet Ellie who will always hold a special place in my heart even though I never got to meet her.

 

The day Jeff lost his job his sweet sister Jennie sent a little money and told us to go do something fun as a family to cheer us up and not think about what was at hand until tommorrow. We decided to go to Dave & Busters. We had a nice time and CJ had a blast!! 

CJ could have played this game all day long!