Last week

I hope this finds each and every one of you and your families doing well. I just wanted to let everyone know what is going on with Tristin and I, as I have yet to do a family update email, and I apologize for it, though I enjoy receiving and reading how every one is doing.

I let Tristin go to cali for a week and a half (the 7th thru yesterday). After I had dropped him off at the airport with his stepmom to fly to Cali, I drove up to WI to see a friend. Came back Monday the 13th, went in to work tuesday and the owner (I work for a small family business) was there and fired me. There were 2 or 3 files I hadn't completed before I left on vacation, and he fired me on the grounds of failure to complete the work. I have worked there for 2 1/2 years and never done anything like this before, but Tennesse is an Employment at will state. I have filed unemployment, and even if the company refuses to pay it, I can appeal it as they did not give me the oppurtunity to rectify the situation. I now qualify for Tenncare (state health insurance) and Food stamps. I have a couple applications and my resume out right now through the career center and have been doing online job searches as well. I have several options available to me, one being to move back to Cali. I have not decided anything yet, and have been praying that God leads me in the correct path for Tristin and I, whatever and wherever it may be. I am taking things one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time, and trying to get through. I appreciate all the support and help I have already receiving from those whom have given it.

Tristin is getting bigger every day. I guess he had a good time in Cali with his father. He (Tristin) and I have worked hard to get where we were before he left (as far as him obeying me and doing as he's told and everything like that), and now I'm back to square one with him since his father doesn't enforce any of it, regardless of my pleas for him to. Today alone he threw a book at me twice and hit me in the face each time with it, so his aim has increasingly improved since he's been gone. I'm hoping and praying that it won't take near as long this time as it did before to get back to where we were.

The time he spent in Cali is the longest he and I have ever been apart from eachother, and I'm ecstatic to have him back, and already him being back has helped me emotionally and mentally with my situation of losing my job and everything. I don't know what I'm going to do yet at this point, but as I said before, I appreciate everyone's support in my current situation