Just put up some layouts one is our first Easter Egg Hunt and another Easter layout

After Easter

Well another Easter has been and gone.
Easter is usually bigger for us then Xmas.
It all started in 1993 when my dh won the Easter Egg raffle at Playgroup. He was in the Navy at the time and wasn't coming home for 8 more weeks so we had this huge basket of eggs and only me and two toddlers and a grandma to eat them!
So I asked a few friends over. We had a great day and all the kids enjoyed themselves. So the following year we decided to do it again this time at one of the friends house(it wasn't as much fun) So in 1995 we had it again at my house. It rained!
After that we seemed to have great days for our annual hunt. As the children got older just looking for eggs wasn't as fun so we had a few clue hunts which were a success! Clues like you collect post from here(letterbox)or look out for Steve Irwin(a cement croc we have ).
This year we just counted how many eggs and the person who found the most red eggs got a special prize.
Counting the eggs is very important we had one year when we didn't count how many eggs and we found eggs three weeks later!
The boys are getting to the stage now where its now just a token day not that excitement anymore so I now try to get things for them to keep ie they got the Simpson cup and bowl set.
Now that don't even pose with the eggs now so I sneak photos of them as I put them out.

As for my weekend being tainted by the thought of me losing my job I think I will resign the day before my review. Hopefully he will remove the black mark from my record and I can use Coles as a reference or being able to take another job in the company more to my liking.
I mean I almost live at Kmart and help lots of people at the photo machines so why not work there? I know of a couple of TAFE courses in photography that might help me get a posistion.

I feel that resigning will be better then getting fired. I can always say to the next employer I gave up night work to look for day work now that my children are older. Or that I wanted to put more time into my studies that my job was interfering with. I can't use actual members of mangement for a referee as in the last 11 weeks we have had a new store manager, new duty manager, new produce manager and new grocery manager!
No management remains that remembers all the extra hours I used to put in or when they would ring me to run the load on my days off. I used to work so hard for really no thanks thats why I stopped putting in the extra hours I just do what I have to do and thats it so I suppose thats what is now working against me.

Well enough about work.

What a bad couple of days(long)

On wednesday I was all set to go out and do some scrapbook shopping when my mum decided to move her car from the front of the house and put it into the driveway doing something that we commonly do a few times a week by pulling into the neighbours driveway and pulling out again when her foot slipped off the brake and she hit the accelerator and plowed though the driveway at an angle that she drove though trees and hit a parked car and moved it 10 metres.
Mum's was ok.
She wrote her car off.
She could have so easily have died it was so scary to watch happen right in front of you and not being able to stop it! I was going to call into work that day and inform them that my mum had been in a accident but thought no I better go in.
Then just before I was going to work my cousin rings to tell me that my niece had been injured by her exboyfriend and no knew where her baby was. (It turned out that it was a hoax a woman who doesn't like my niece and was spreading rumours) so I had to call my exbil who I hate to see if my niece was visiting him she wasn't! So I go to work with the thoughts that my mum nearly died today and now my niece and baby are missing and my dh wasn't home from work. SO I wasn't working at my best when the manager calls me into the office and tells me that I have poor performance and that he can terminate then and there on the spot!
So now I'm on probation till the 3rd of May.If I don't improve I lose my job!

What has got to me the most is that at the moment I am doing a TAFE course in Retail Operations to get out of Night Fill. I applied for the job at Coles/Myer to work in Officeworks but Coles asked first and I wanted money and at the time it was right for a family situation.
Since doing the TAFE course my children have been making their own way home and have been on their own for at least a couple of hours in the afternoons without any problems so I am ready for a day job.
Also as part of the course I had to do work experience and you could use your own workplace if you had one so I asked work to fill out my form and that night he constantly bought that fact up and went on and on about there no being a career for me in retail!
That if he filled it out he would give me a bad report! He didn't even read the form it barely asked about performance it is more staff and customer base. He also said I was talking as well!
When someone says something like that you replay the coversions you did have though your mind and yes I did talk but never stopped working once! I was also put on the spot no warnings no time to get a proper witness I did all the things wrong I signed the paperwork was upset now that I know my rights I won't be doing that again!
So that really stuffed up my long weekend.
Also my dh didn't make it home until 12o'clock the next day! and Then he got phone calls all afternoon and on Friday he had to go back to work early in the morning!
But maybe its a blessing in disguise maybe its time to leave before I injury myself. In nightfill it can be so easy to hurt yourself and now with the extra pressure who knows?

first post

This is my first blog. I have been reading everyone else's blog so I decided to make my own.