This post will probably explain quite a bit of the reason for my long absence. As I previously posted, Ben and Jess moved to Kelowna at the end of March. Well that didn’t go so good. Ben was so homesick he was a wreck! I just kept telling him to hang in there, and maybe it would get a bit better. It never did. Then, good friends went down to visit them on the May long weekend, and that made even Jess homesick for here and all the friends they had. They found that her friends were kind of still just stuck in high school mode. I will also add that it took Jessica over a month to find a job. Then she QUIT it again after just a couple of weeks. So they went from her earning $15/hour here, and Ben working 7 days/week at 2 jobs here, to just one job with him earning $20/hour!

So they decided to move back here. For some insane reason, hubby flew the pair of them out here for a weekend ($800!!!) and they decided to make the move as soon as it could be arranged. Ben wanted to leave her here so she could start looking for work and a place for them to live. I told him NO. She should stay and work as long as she could (you see that hadn’t admitted to us yet at that time that she’d already quit her job). He phoned a few days after they had gone home, and I said…. you know Ben, you can move back home and go back to work (he already knew he was getting both his old jobs back), and Jess can stay there and keep working, and get things ready for the move. He was quite happy to hear that at the time.

A couple days later, he phoned and wanted to know if they could BOTH move in here while they sorted everything out. I told him No. Well he was PISSED and totally offended that I wouldn’t let her move in here. Later that day I emailed him to tell him that she wasn’t going to sit around here unemployed while the rest of us are out working. I told him I was sick and damn tired of her not working, talking about going back to school and getting a driver’s license and doing nothing about it! Well he was mad and hurt!

Anyways, when they moved back here, he called and asked if they could spend the night until they got their power hooked up, we said no problem, and they spent a couple of days here. Hubby knew a guy who owns the insurance company here in town. His business is 2 doors down from the house Ben and Jess are renting. He got her a job there making 16/hour!! It was perfect! They get their house rent-free for 6 weeks, because Ben laid all new laminate flooring, baseboards, and casings in the house. Next he’ll be tiling the kitchen and bathroom floors and installing a new toilet and vanity. It’s a perfect situation!! EXCEPT that she worked there one day and QUIT!!! I was livid! We told Ben exactly what we think of her work ethic, and that we love the girl, but she’s got to get her shit together! Of course they didn’t like that a bit, and she is avoiding us currently, but slowly coming around. Ben is fine with us now. I just feel so bad for him. He loves her to bits, but he can’t afford to support her already!! Nor should he have to! Her mother finally ripped into her too. Oh, and BTW, she still is not working, and they’ve been back over a month!