Well as many of you know I am a "Room Attendant" for the Holiday Inn Express in Puyallup. I thought that taking a cleaning job would be a piece of cake after taking care of 5 boys for the past few years:) Let's just say it's not...there are a lot of time limits, specifications, rules, etc. that you have to follow. So much is going on in a room that all you have time to do is think, think, think! I lost 10lbs. my first 2 weeks there with all the hustle and bustle (which isn't a bad thing).

One of the perks of the job is tips! I never knew before that many people leave a tip for the room attendant. It makes me all excited when I go into a room and they have left a couple of dollars by the nightstand. I have even scored a few $10 tips. One day I received 2 bouquets of flowers with a note attached saying to have a great day.



Other times the room may be totally trashed and not receive a single thing-oh well...that's the breaks. I love the people I work with though-they are great and make the work bearable...especially when we meet up in the break room and chiff about all the nutty guests or crazy things we've found in our rooms that day.
I am taking a daycare orientation class in October and hopefully will get my daycare license soon after so that I can be home with my kids all day!

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We took the kids and went to Leavenworth last weekend. It was our big trip for the summer. Mike had a gig with Idol Eyez on Saturday night so we went up on Friday to enjoy the weekend.

We took the kids to a community pool with a child friendly slide and mushroom looking thing that had water pouring out of it, a fish hatchery where we got to see live Salmon that were huge. We also walked around the little Swiss village quite a few times and enjoyed the shops and local cuisine. We even tried Gelato which is an Italian ice cream (we thought it tasted just like sherbet though) and we tried some pastries from an authentic danish bakery. The boys really liked the nutcracker museum which had hundreds of nutcrackers of every shape, size, character, etc..
One cool souvenir we got was a magnet with the Stone family crest on it. It was a really fun place and Mike and I decided that it would be a fun place for the two of us to go to on a weekend sometime.
*Mike had so spend time working on his final paper for english while we were there so it was non stop busy*