A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Kyle and I were sitting in the living room, having our nightly ice cream after the kids were in bed, when the cat started doing some exploring on top of the kitchen cabinets. I happened to get a picture of her in mid-air, jumping from one cabinet to another.
So, I was sitting at work one day when my mobile phone rang. I looked at the caller ID and saw it was my old manager from Symantec. Wondering what he could want, I quickly stepped away from my desk to answer the call.
He explained that he was talking to his fellow managers at Symantec, and one of them mentioned I had expressed an interest in coming back. I confirmed this, and he said he had an opening on my old team again, as they had put an offer out to someone who turned it down, and he was wondering if I would be interested. I answered that I was, and he asked what I was making and how much I made before I left. He then said he would look into it a little more and get back to me.
When I next heard back from him, he ended up making me an offer to return to my old position at roughly the same pay as before. He added that if I returned within a year from when I left (back on 8 March), I could resume my time off accrual, getting more per year than if I were to start over. Although sorely tempted, I didn’t accept just then, as I needed to discuss the situation with Rebecca. He said his manager wanted to talk to me about it, too, before I decided.
Instead of going in to meet in person, I ended up talking to him on the phone. He explained that although there were rumours about Symantec closing down the Lindon location, they reversed course on it and were trying to build it up, keeping some of the best talent in the company here. Compared to what I had heard previously, this sounded promising, so I decided to accept.
However, I did not tell my manager at EMC yet. We went to California for Wendy and John’s wedding, which felt ironic since last year I changed jobs during a different family trip. Fortunately, my EMC manager was supportive with whatever decision I would make, and I began the paperwork to return to Symantec. It was a bit of a hassle to get all the paperwork in, but it worked out and now I’m back!
Today’s project was rearranging the boys room. Bringing the living room tables in last night made me so excited to bring in more of what we are going to keep that I decided the car bed was coming in next. I couldn’t just place it in the empty corner of the boys room though. It would fit there, but that’s where the vent for the room is…in the floor. So I had to have the boys clean their messy room and I moved the bunk bed to the corner with the vent and the crib came around to the other side of the room. At least the bunk bed is raised up off the ground and air would be able to flow, the car bed sits directly on the floor. Then I went out into the garage and like the macho mamma that I am, I lifted that huge car bed over the other boxes and stuff out there and brought it into the house. Once in the house I could just push it down the hall and put it in place. Adam was very curious about what was going on:
After I got all the dust wiped off, I brought in the piece of plywood that supports the mattress, and the mattress, and we got the bed all made up. Adam really likes it.
We won’t use it for him to sleep on regularly just yet. We’ll let him just get used to having it in there before transitioning him into it, but so far he likes it!
The piano at my parent’s house was Grandma Shirley’s piano when she was young. Now, my dad is trying to downsize to be able to eventually move into a smaller house someday, and so he offered Grandma’s piano to us. Wendy and John were passing through Utah with a moving truck on their way to Idaho, where they plan to live while John is continuing school. They planned on staying the night with us on their way, and so dad put the piano (and some other things, including their trampoline) on the truck to be brought to our house. We had given Tiffany one of our old entertainment centers, and with that no longer in the living room, there was plenty of room for the piano.
Wendy and John were here yesterday! The piano is now safe in my living room. I’m not going to lie, I was REALLY nervous about it being moved. Dad took time off to make sure he would be at home to supervise the loading and tying down of the piano in the truck. We rounded up a few neighbors after scouts last night and I don’t think I breathed very easily until it was set in place in the living room. THEN I was super excited that it is here and that it is SAFE! 🙂
John also helped me get our living room tables out of the garage so they could come inside and not be in storage any more. I’m loving the clean uncluttered look. 😀
We started some spring cleaning this morning. We pulled everything out of the entry way and scrubbed it down, before rearranging things and putting them back. I had the kids do the scrubbing.
Before putting all the shoes away we went through them and I made each kid try on every pair of their shoes. The ones that were too small went into a box in the garage to await the next kid being ready for them, and the only ones that got put away are the ones that fit now. Of course we only cleaned the entry way today and we still have the whole rest of the house to go. At least SOMETHING is clean!