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Some people call their family when they go into labor and are having their first born. We called to help raise our first house. It wasn't that it was a large home or particularly difficult undertaking as it was a time constraint - we were closing on the land on January 22nd and wanted to be into the house by April 1st.  On top of that, we needed to do so while Ross continued to work a full time job as an employee at Creative Visions in Monterey and getting time off for the project was difficult. In stepped his mom and dad, Nick and Cathy. When they came, his sister Anji followed shortly thereafter.  Suddenly we had half a dozen people standing at the wheels of our base floor lain trailer, ready to raise the roof, as it were. The framing for the walls was like magic.  Words were passed quickly back and forth between father and daughter, sister and brother, mother and son.  Jeff and I wedged in where we could, took commands when they came and did what we could w...

I can think of no better way to start than to tell you a little (or a lot) about me and mine. I am a wife and a mother. I once helped run a business, but I realized one day that I did not have the gumption to do the sorts of things that management had to do. That is, I could not figure out how to fire people that didn't know how to do their job, as I was too sympathetic to the woes of being human. Granted, it is not to say that other people who do these jobs see other than what I saw, but that I myself did not have the spirit to look someone in the eye and tell them they were not good enough, even when they weren't. In stories that are too long to tell here and now, I myself had been told that too many times as a child and didn't have it in me to tell it to others, even if it were to the benefit of the company itself. People who do hiring and firing need to exist in this world, and I consider them very strong people. I do NOT consider myself to be this particular type ...