{"id":1307,"date":"2015-01-25T20:32:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T02:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2017-01-08T14:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T20:03:53","slug":"moving-the-15th-two-jobs-thanksgiving-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/stapletonfamily\/2015\/01\/25\/moving-the-15th-two-jobs-thanksgiving-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving, The 15th, Two Jobs, Thanksgiving, & Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings & Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers!\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Although with my frequency of updates the faithful bit might be a stretch.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It has been almost a year since my last update, so I thought it was time to sit down and do a post for posterity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>So lets take a walk through memory lane since my last update.<\/span><\/p>\n

Summer 2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Over the 4th of July Jess went over to Charlotte, NC to spend some time with her family.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Since moving to Nebraska all of Jess\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Immediate family have moved south, leaving her Mom & Step Dad the only ones left in WV.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Jess had a good visit and even got to spend a few days at the beach.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>During the visit Jess also learned she was going to be an Aunt!\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Ricky & Megan are expecting their first child in March 2015.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Jess returned in Mid-July we commenced moving.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Since coming to Lincoln we had lived in a two bedroom apartment that was always meant to be temporary and that kind of turned into a little under 2 1\/2 years of living there.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The complex was nice and so was the community, but the last year we were there new owners purchased the property and things went really down hill.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Also the complex literally could not have been any further from my office and still be in the Lincoln city limits.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a lot of looking I was able to find us a townhouse a 1\/4 mile from my office.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>In WV we would call this a duplex but that term is frowned upon out here so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a townhouse.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The rent was super reasonable for Lincoln (rule of thumb, figure $600 a bedroom for any decent place to rent) and it even came with a fenced in backyard for my boy.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The other side of the duplex is a second home for a couple that only use it about 6 days a month so its like we have the entire place to ourselves.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>The move was a little more rough than I would have liked but we got through it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In July we also\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>celebrated our 15th Wedding Anniversary but you can read more about that here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fall 2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In September one of my employees left the company, at that point I literally started doing two jobs for a period of about three months, so that consumed a great deal of my fall.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It just wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fair to dump the work load on my other employees and mess up their goals for the year with such little time to make it up.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>See what a wonderful boss I am?<\/span><\/p>\n

With everything going on I had not been back to WV since May so Jess & I went back to WV for Thanksgiving.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It was good to see everyone but those short trips can take it out of you.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>In order to re-work Christmas this year with all the geographic challenges we went over to Charlotte the 2nd weekend in December to have Christmas with Jess\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dad.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It was a great but much too short a trip.<\/span><\/p>\n

Winter 2014<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Since we are still in Winter all I have to report is that it was cold and we went home for Christmas week as usual, you can see all the Christmas Pics below.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure you all are thinking what about Jess, how are the headaches?\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sorry to report that Jess still struggles with Migraines on nearly a daily basis and has been unable to work.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>This particularly nasty period of Migraines began about 6 months before our move and has not really let up, so if you working the math she has been in about 3 1\/2 years of living hell.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>We are not able to find anything to mitigate the migraines that still allow her to function normally.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>She did apply for a subbing position with Lincoln Public Schools and we are waiting to hear back.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>This way she can still use her mad teaching skills but without all the stress of having to maintain a classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m blessed that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m able to support both of us right now, but that does not mean we have given up hope in getting Jess functional again.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>There are some new treatments coming down the pike, that may help and no matter how many times she asks I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shoot her.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>(You know they always come after the Husband first)<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty much all that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on out here in the Great Plains.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jessica & I hope that this update finds your and yours doing well, Good Night & God Bless.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings & Salutations Faithful Stapleton Blog Readers!\u00c2\u00a0 Although with my frequency of updates the faithful bit might be a stretch.\u00c2\u00a0 It has been almost a year since my last update, so I thought it was time to sit down and do a post for posterity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake.\u00c2\u00a0 So lets take a walk through memory lane since … <\/p>\n

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