Things are looking brighter

After a long time of being unemployed, again, I am finally going back to work! I took a bartending course at The Professional Bartending School (if you go there, make sure you say I (Gina Askew) referred you, plus it's really inexpensive).

 

So I am now a Certified Mixologist.

Even better, I was able to score not one, but two jobs! The first one is a Bartender at Red Lobster. The second one is Bartender at Jiffy Lube Live Amphitheater. I start training today at Red Lobster and on the 15th for JLL. I am so excited. I should do great at both. I was told by the hiring manager at RL that the bartender that I replaced and been "released" and went to work at another restaurant nearby and took all her regulars with her. However, I'm smart. Rather than use all of my friends to build up my clientele I am going to the local hotels. We have 12 within a mile radius. I honestly haven't bartended since 2001, that's a long time. And I was only there a couple of months because the owner was a huge douche bag.

Right now, I am so undecided. You may have read from my previous blog, that I want to move to Florida this summer. However, the night before Sam went into labor we had stayed up late, very late, having a conversation that we should have had MONTHS ago. It was about our futures. Hers as a mom, and me as a mom, and a single woman.

Sam & I playing pool the night before she went into labor

My new grandson, Jayden

 

After our discussion I realized, even more than I knew I would love my grandson and want to be here for him, I LOVE my daughters, especially this one. She was my first born. It was just me and her for the first 15 months of her life (her "bio dad" left and never came back with she was just 11 days old) and she was 4 before I had another baby. And If I left, who would be here for her? Yes, my ex does consider her his daughter, after all she was only 15 months old when we met. But I know he loves his other daughters, too. However, I know that I will always be here for her. She has a rough road ahead of her. She is a very young mother, unemployed, and still in school. She is an "adult" as of today, it's her 18th birthday. As much as I want to start over my life, as a single woman, I am her mom. The other 2 have "their" dad.

So that was it, I made my decision, I will stay here, work my ass off as a single mom working three jobs (the 3rd one is working for my neighbor). I need to save up money, a lot of it, if I want to move out and start over. Sam has plans & goals for her and her family's life. And as I know a little too well, you can have all the plans and goals that you want, but LIFE will still get in the way. Someone needs to help push her to achieve these goals. Her dad works a lot so I know he can't just drop what he is doing to run to her side. I can. And I will (as long as I don't get fired in the process). I can not be unemployed again. That shit sucks monkey balls.

As much as I hate being single, I guess it's something I will have to deal with until I am a responsible enough adult, none of my bills say "past due", and there is cash in the bank (all 5 accounts).

It has been a joy letting you know what's going on in my life right now. I hope to do another blog next week.

I'm a GlamMa!!

Well I am finally a Glamma!

 

Baby Jayden arrived on Tuesday, March 26 at 11:34pm.

Samantha at the hospital

The above picture is of Daddy, Mommy, and baby Jayden

 

 

Samantha did so good! We got to the hospital around 4:45pm. She was only there for almost 7 hours before he arrived. I had the pleasure of being the other person in the room during delivery. And I had serious multitasking going on. I had to hold one of her legs while doing a video in one hand, a camera in the other. She has my child rearing skills. I wasn't one for long labor either.

 

So the family is living with me for now. I don't want them to stay for more than six months, after all they wanted to start their family. Not that I am kicking them out, I am pushing them out, there is a difference. I know how much it sucks to have your own baby yet still living with your parents. Sam is doing great as a mommy. It's cute, when I listen to her talking to Jayden, and how she handles him, it reminds me of when I had her. I said and did the same things (I just hope she doesn't fall asleep with him on her chest and he rolls off and sleeps under the recliner and she forgets that she even has a baby- yes I did that, on my first mothers day).



 

 So many people came to see them at the hospital. Then we all got into trouble with the nurse because you can only have 4 people in the room, we had 9....ooops.

 

The girls are LOVING being Aunties. Yesterday was the best day so far, he was awake for a few hours. He normally sleeps all day and is up all night (like his mom). The girls rush home from school every day just to see if he is awake (or asleep) so they can play with him.

 

Auntie Kimberlee

 

                                                                  Auntie Meme

Gimme my "baby"!                                                                           

 

Me and Jayden

 

Yes, he already knows who his Gigi is. :)

Poppop (my ex)

Auntie Rikki (my sister)

 

Jaydens first bath

 

Jayden had been home a couple of days. I wanted to play with him but Samantha said she needed to give him a bath and take a shower herself (oh YES, she REALLY needed a shower). So I told her I would give him a bath while she took a shower. I had NO IDEA it was his first bath. I'm not going to lie, I was honored that I got to give him his first bath.

 

I just wanted to tell the world about his precious little boy!