The Stapleton Family

Greetings and Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers!  I know it has been a long time since an update and there has been a huge gap in all of your lives.  You may not of known what it was, but it was indeed the lack of a Stapleton Family Blog entry.  So now I must take the time to put things right.

Work is going well.  My staff busted through their goal last year at 166% and just killed it!  It was a long first year on the job and this next year looks even longer.  If you have not kept up with Jess on facebook you might not realize that I’m married to the incredible shrinking wife.  She is down 50+ pounds and still going!  Her headaches and other family matters you will see below have kept her from working.  We hope she will be able to start subbing next school year, this one was not meant to be.

So in my traditional I’m behind fashion I will do my updates by month below.  I hope that you all enjoy.

Continue reading “Massively Overdue Update”

We are feeling very blessed right now.

Our house in WV sold after being on the market for just 54 days.  It was a cash offer so everything moved very quickly.  We wish the new owner and her 3 dogs well, in their well built, completely remodeled home.  (I can personally vouch to the fact the International Space Station can be safely anchored to the bulk head we built at the bottom of the basement stairs.)

The new owner has no idea what it looked like when we go ahold of it.

As with all our other real estate transactions we used Karen Twohig.  She has magic realtor pixy dust, so give her a call.  There is no one that will take better care of you!  We didn’t even have to go back for the closing.  She handled everything for us!

Greetings and salutations faithful Stapleton Blog Readers!

It’s been a long few months without an update so I thought I would catch everyone up.  As is tradition when I have let the blog go stale I will catch you up in chronological order.

November

On November 15^th I began to take over my new responsibilities in Nebraska.  This began a 45-day period of me unraveling from my old job in WV and beginning to take on new duties in the mid-west.   This was my first time back to Nebraska in 4 years so I stayed over the weekend to begin looking for places to live.  Thanksgiving began the worst spade of headaches Jess has had since the wreck 3+ years ago.  (The wreck was 4 years ago in January)

December

Was more of the same I traveled between WV & NE trying to get into the grove of my new job and finishing up the projects with my old one.  Jess’s headaches show no sign of letting up and she has hardly worked since the week of Thanksgiving.  We hobbled through the holidays as best we could, as her moments of feeling good were few and far between.  I took most of the end of December off to be with Jess and family during the holidays.  As of 12/31/11, I was free of my job responsibilities in WV and I’m turned lose on the Midwest.

January

January 9^th I began 4 ½ months of “commuting” to my job in Nebraska.  I left on Mondays and, for the most part, come back every other Friday.  In January, we put down an offer on a new construction home that was being finished (which begins a merry tale that I will elaborate on later).  Jess worked one full week at the end of January and that would be the last time she worked in the Cabell County School system.  Her headaches increased in such severity and frequency she was pretty much unable to function except to go to doctor’s appointments.  I came home every other week and took care of her as best I could.  She took a FMLA leave the first week of February hoping that her job would be preserved and that we would be able to get the headaches under control.

Continue reading “Starting the “New” Job, Moving to the Midwest, & Where is all our stuff?”