Ok so I haven't blogged in like forever and I miss it. I miss getting to put my thoughts, rants, raves and bitches down somewhere other than Facebook. I will confess that FB has taken the place of my blog for a good long time now. But this, this is different. I enjoy the sense of community that I felt with my fellow bloggers back when I blogged regularly. In fact I am FB friends with a few of them. I am worried because it seems that the blogger world has changed while I have been away. With the start of Pinterest  and with companies paying top bloggers to push their products things are not as "honest" as they seemed before. Perhaps it's just me and I was naive before. I hope that I can get back in the swing of blogging and sharing. The stories from my job alone are enough to keep this blog going indefinitely. With that being said here's a little nugget from the other day. One of the kids came in with a sore place on his lip and he was obviously embarrassed by it and was trying to keep it low key. ( keep in mind these are high school age kids) One of the other kids notices and in a loud sing- song voice says...... "oh nooooooo he's got Herbies"  LOL

Well I hope this post finds all my old bloggy buddies doing well and hanging in there.

I miss me some Mommakin, The world according to Candice, Kathy B, and The everyday hills and valleys, Oh Andy and B Sparlkly.    

I have been bad but in my defense I have been a bit busy

Forgive me blogger it's been 14 days since my last post.....
So we got moved thank goodness. I'm still not completely done "setting up house" yet. It seems like we still have so much left to do. But when I look around we have already done a lot.
Megs soccer stuff has really picked up and we have been running her around from practices, SAQ, and games 6 days a week. She is doing so well and working so hard. I am one proud Momma.
It seems like the summer is flying by and I am not happy about that at all. We have less than a month before we start back to school :-( not looking forward to that at all.
Well I better get back to it. Working in the flower bed today... it's a mess. There are lots of "good" plants in there but they are just sort of thrown in there, crowded together, and it's full of weeds and leaves. I have to figure out how to move things around to better showcase whats in there and give the plants room to breathe a little. I will post some pictures as I go along. I have already raked out all the leaves so the first pictures won't reflect its true original state... but just know it was a mess :-)

2 days to go

So I have 2 days left before the move !!!!

I still feel like I have a ton of stuff left to do. 

I have been busy trying to get as much ready as I can but still feel like I have so much more to do.

That being said I better get back at it.

I hope everyone has a happy hump day  :-)

Holy crap I only have 9 days left

So I have 9 days left before we are set to close on the house !!!!! I have so much stuff to do. I have made multiple trips to KARM and dropped off a lot of stuff. I have even packed a few things. Linens and things that we don't use very often. My plan is to get some boxes this week and start packing up darn near everything except the few things we will need to get through the next few days. 

I am excited and nervous about the move. The house is pretty much move in ready, but I need to figure out how things will work in the new space. We have to add a doggie door to the garage man door so that the dogs can come and go to the backyard at will. I need to get some curtain rods and a shower curtain bar/rod. I also need to figure out where to feed my cats so the dogs don't eat their food. Right now they eat on a little table in my bedroom. The bedroom at the new house is not as big as the monster one we have now. I still need to go through and do a change of address with our bills, set up our cable, water, and electric. 

I have a ton of stuff to get done !!!!

Listing it all on here is amping my stress level up so I think I'm gonna stop doing that LOL 

I hope everyone had a good and safe 4th. 

Also wanna give a shout out to one of my new favorite things Ancestory.com  I have had such a good time researching my family tree on there. I am currently in the 2 week free period but I am gonna get the six month membership so I can keep looking. I have been able to trace my moms family back to the late 1700's in Germany and my dads family back to their trip over from Scotland in the 1600's. How sweet is that ?

16 days and counting....

So we have 16 days til we are set to close on the new house !!!!

While that sounds like a while I have a TON of stuff to get done.

Plus they still have some work to do at the new house before we can close. I am a little worried that they aren't going to get everything done in time. 

They still have a lot to clean up from where the trees came down last week. The fence still needs to get repaired/replaced.

My plan is to start in one room and pack up what we won't use for the next two weeks and clean up that room. I have made several trips to the local KARM store already and I see several more trips there in my immediate future.

I want to adopt a new philosophy at the new house to not keep things that we don't use. I am always hanging on to things that I think I may need or use again at some point. So I have all these "just in case" things packed in closets and cabinets. I am gonna stop this practice at the new house. I am tired of living surrounded by crap LOL.

We will see how I do on this goal.

 Getting John and Meg on board is another matter entirely.....

The count down begins....

So I have 18 days until we are set to move !!!!!!!!! 

I have so much stuff to get done it's not even funny.

I have to pack up and clean out the house now then once we get in there we have to come back and redo the house we are leaving. I (and by I, I mean John) have to repaint every room white and move 2 doors and close to doors in, take down a wall and then redo the flooring where we took down the wall !!! Maybe we will be done by September.

I am really excited about the move but dreading it just the same.

 I look forward to having my own house again.

 Where I can put what I want in the yard and paint the walls whatever color I want without having to ask. John can park his POS truck next to the house. Where we have control of the heat and air temp.

 I don't mean to sound ungrateful but it's the little things like that that help make a house your home.

 I look forward to that again.

 The work and the other stuff not so much, but alas it's part of it.

We are gonna have to make some changes in our spending so that we can live comfortably in the new house and still take care of the responsibilities we have at the other house. But I think we will be just fine after an initial adjustment period.

I am looking forward to being able to have friends over for dinner and stuff and for Meg being able to have friends over for sleepovers and things. It will be a nice change for all of us.

 In the meantime I have a ton of stuff to get rid of.

Anybody want this for a good price ?

I have a bunch of stuff like this I need to get rid of. While I LOVE it I don't use it and my goal for the new house is less is more. So it's gotta go !!!

Hope everyone is having a happy Monday. 

After SAQ we are off to Young Williams Animal Center to help with website pictures :-)

Look at me go... two posts in one day

So last night I had free sneak peak passes to see bad Teacher at the Regal Riviera Downtown. The movie was pretty funny. It had some zingy one liners and also had Jason Segal. I am really growing to love him as an actor. I almost wish I had gotten into how I Met Your Mother just for him.

The movie is funny and not really raunchy although there are a couple of scenes that push the line a little. Lets just say JT's character is really bizarre.....

Something wicked this way came...

So this is the backyard at my house now...

and this is the backyard at the new house...

so as you can see we had a fun night, Hope everyone else fared ok.

Holy blowing metal Batman !!!!!

So some pretty wicked storms rolled through my area AGAIN last night. At the start of the storm we were at the soccer field for Megs soccer practice and watched as the ominous black clouds started to roll in. The wind kicked up from just a gentle breeze to 55-60 mph winds in a matter of a few minutes. The girls had just been pulled off the field when the skies opened and the deluge of rain started. So we were trying to get home during the worst part of the storm. Trees were whipping and branches and leaves were blowing everywhere. The rain was coming down really hard and the wind was causing it to come at us sideways. I felt a little like Forrest Gump. About this time my cell started ringing and it was my neighbor telling me that our carport roof had ripped almost all the way off and was flapping in the wind. Right above my car and into the weather head on the side/top of the house !!!!! Needless to say we came home to a mess. We have tree limbs and leaves everywhere not to mention the metal that's twisted up onto the roof. So instead of working in the house today getting things ready to move I will be outside cleaning up mother natures mess. Yay Me :-)

I got them....

Ok so I just drove over tho the house and took two quick pictures so that I could share.
So without further ado....

and my favorite part  :-)