The last two days have been full of trying to keep my house clean, and getting things set up for our move to nashville. As with the army we are in a hurry up and wait period. We have a house and Brad has done an amazing job of getting everything set up to be switched over to our name. He has had all our paperwork in for the movers to come for several days. He recieved an email saying that they had got the request, but now they have to send everything "up the chain" to be approved and then it comes back down the chain to contract out a moving company. So now we are in limbo. The good thing is that Brad will be able to live in our house, and be close to work, saving us LOTS of money in gas. The kids and I will also go up friday and help him get everything situated, take him some staple items, pots and pans, air mattress, food (we have to have our deep freezer defrosted before they will take it), uniform, towels/washclothes, etc.
So we are working with all the different aspects of our busy hectic lives. And as usual something always has to go wrong with something. Nothing with the house is bad, last night Abby and Tyler were "walking" through her room when they ran in to each other. Mind you Tyler is literaly half as tall as she is, but somehow when they collided it broke her tooth. Like not just chipped the top, but the enamel came completely off the front of her tooth. Now she is not in pain and she has done a pretty good job of not touching it so she is going great. We will go to the dentist tomorrow morning and probably get the tooth capped to cover the nerves. No big deal, it is a baby tooth, so it will cause no major damage.
Then Toby got all the tile laid in the bathroom and is coming tomorrow to grout the floor and finish the craziness, that is our second UNUSED bathroom. So maybe before we move I will actually be able to take a shower in there for the first time since we moved here in April of 2007. The good news is that it will be done and behind us.
Tyler is growling at me, I guess that is my cue to yet again cut this to an end and go play with BABIES! And no offense that is sometimes so much more fun!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
I actually have time to breathe?
I can not believe it, I am actually sitting down with time to breathe how ever short it is I am going to enjoy it.
I have to start off by saying a HUGE Thanks to by brother-in-law Toby! He has graciously given up a portion of his extremely busy schedule to come help us finish some upgrades we started on our house. Now my dad and Brad started tiling the 2ND bathroom right after Tyler was born, I'm talking the week after Tyler was born, which has now been 17 months. Brad has been so busy with his old job that he has just not had the time to complete it. So Toby has offered to come finish it for us, and I truly can not tell him how much I appreciate his time, work and effort.
Now Toby has a heart of gold and is a true gentleman! Respectful, loving, and funny to boot. Although I have never seen it, I can tell he is sensitive when the time is right. He takes care of his mother like I have ever seen any young man do. He is family oriented and just a joy to be around.
Tammie, is an angel that I am never going to be able to replace, she has at the drop of a dime turned her life upside down to help me with the kids. She has them today, so that I can clean make sure my house is in order before the move. Last week she gave up a day of work to come watch them so that I could go to the doctor to have a routine check up, no second guessing, just instantaneously. I know that I am going to be only 2 hours away from her, but she is going to be missed tremendously.
After getting midway through my cleaning today, our realtor called saying that someone was going to look at the house today. Let me remind you that we only last night put the house on the market. She is pretty excited about it, saying that he had to find one this week, but I'm trying not to get our hopes up. I'm trying to be realistic and know that it could take months for the house to sell. I can't tell you how happy it would make me if it sells earlier though. I will be more than happy to not have two house payments to pay.
After the realtor put her sign in the yard, the neighbor came over asking about it, and said that she and her sister where looking to buy as well. At this same time we had some lady also nearly cause several wrecks as she was trying to get the information from the sign. So we may be lucky enough to have interest early, but from what I understand, most of the interest will come early and then die down and have no interest for a while. So we will just have to wait and see what we have in store. I'm leaving everything up to God, and knowing that what is best for us will happen when it needs to happen.
But for today my breathing time is over. I must be on my way to go meet my munchkins! I have enjoyed the quiet today, but it is very very weird! I miss the LITTLE noise.
I have to start off by saying a HUGE Thanks to by brother-in-law Toby! He has graciously given up a portion of his extremely busy schedule to come help us finish some upgrades we started on our house. Now my dad and Brad started tiling the 2ND bathroom right after Tyler was born, I'm talking the week after Tyler was born, which has now been 17 months. Brad has been so busy with his old job that he has just not had the time to complete it. So Toby has offered to come finish it for us, and I truly can not tell him how much I appreciate his time, work and effort.
Now Toby has a heart of gold and is a true gentleman! Respectful, loving, and funny to boot. Although I have never seen it, I can tell he is sensitive when the time is right. He takes care of his mother like I have ever seen any young man do. He is family oriented and just a joy to be around.
Tammie, is an angel that I am never going to be able to replace, she has at the drop of a dime turned her life upside down to help me with the kids. She has them today, so that I can clean make sure my house is in order before the move. Last week she gave up a day of work to come watch them so that I could go to the doctor to have a routine check up, no second guessing, just instantaneously. I know that I am going to be only 2 hours away from her, but she is going to be missed tremendously.
After getting midway through my cleaning today, our realtor called saying that someone was going to look at the house today. Let me remind you that we only last night put the house on the market. She is pretty excited about it, saying that he had to find one this week, but I'm trying not to get our hopes up. I'm trying to be realistic and know that it could take months for the house to sell. I can't tell you how happy it would make me if it sells earlier though. I will be more than happy to not have two house payments to pay.
After the realtor put her sign in the yard, the neighbor came over asking about it, and said that she and her sister where looking to buy as well. At this same time we had some lady also nearly cause several wrecks as she was trying to get the information from the sign. So we may be lucky enough to have interest early, but from what I understand, most of the interest will come early and then die down and have no interest for a while. So we will just have to wait and see what we have in store. I'm leaving everything up to God, and knowing that what is best for us will happen when it needs to happen.
But for today my breathing time is over. I must be on my way to go meet my munchkins! I have enjoyed the quiet today, but it is very very weird! I miss the LITTLE noise.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
And now it begins!
The adventure is finally beginning to start.
We have found a house to rent in the nashville area! It is going to be perfect for us, lots of space, and an unfinished basement for the kids to play in, a huge front yard with covered patio in the back, very close to brads office, 10 minutes to downtown, and 10 minutes to brentwood. Also in the exact area we were trying to get one. (I will post pictures when I can get them on the computer that Brad has temporarily stolen to do homework.) The actual house itself is just bigger than the house we have, maybe a 100sqf.
We also have finally gotten our house on the market. Today a very sweet and honest realtor/broker (not exactly sure what that all means but) came to the house to look and give her opinion. She was very patient, asked all sorts of questions, explained EVERYTHING, spent probably two hours with us going through everything. Needless to say I think she is going to work her butt off to try to get this house sold. We are very lucky in the fact that we have quite a bit of positives in the house. Although old, we have just over 2 acres of land, are close to all the new stores, just outside of the city limit, in a safe and established neighborhood, and a single level home with an open floor plan just to name a few. We are very hopeful that this house will sell quickly, but then again completely realistic that it may take months to sell.
We were not planning on moving so soon, as we had figured it would take us several weeks to find a house that we could afford and would be in a good safe neighborhood. But I truly think that God has us under his wing and is taking care of us. I don't think I have ever felt so content with where we are in our lives. It finally seems that we are where we need to be. It feels like everything is falling into place as it has always been planned this way. We know that we are going to have tough times, but we will be okay. Everything is going to work out how it is supposed to work out.
I'm so very sorry! I'm going to have to go, I am getting side tracked, I want a fresh warm biscuit and a yummy fresh warm doughnut. That is all I can think of! Thank you food network!
We have found a house to rent in the nashville area! It is going to be perfect for us, lots of space, and an unfinished basement for the kids to play in, a huge front yard with covered patio in the back, very close to brads office, 10 minutes to downtown, and 10 minutes to brentwood. Also in the exact area we were trying to get one. (I will post pictures when I can get them on the computer that Brad has temporarily stolen to do homework.) The actual house itself is just bigger than the house we have, maybe a 100sqf.
We also have finally gotten our house on the market. Today a very sweet and honest realtor/broker (not exactly sure what that all means but) came to the house to look and give her opinion. She was very patient, asked all sorts of questions, explained EVERYTHING, spent probably two hours with us going through everything. Needless to say I think she is going to work her butt off to try to get this house sold. We are very lucky in the fact that we have quite a bit of positives in the house. Although old, we have just over 2 acres of land, are close to all the new stores, just outside of the city limit, in a safe and established neighborhood, and a single level home with an open floor plan just to name a few. We are very hopeful that this house will sell quickly, but then again completely realistic that it may take months to sell.
We were not planning on moving so soon, as we had figured it would take us several weeks to find a house that we could afford and would be in a good safe neighborhood. But I truly think that God has us under his wing and is taking care of us. I don't think I have ever felt so content with where we are in our lives. It finally seems that we are where we need to be. It feels like everything is falling into place as it has always been planned this way. We know that we are going to have tough times, but we will be okay. Everything is going to work out how it is supposed to work out.
I'm so very sorry! I'm going to have to go, I am getting side tracked, I want a fresh warm biscuit and a yummy fresh warm doughnut. That is all I can think of! Thank you food network!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The sweet things that kids say
Abby Kate is 4 going on 25, I think it is a girl thing but I'm not sure. Most of the time she and I butt heads like crazy, and she will admit to you that she "listens to daddy better than mommy!"
Most of the time she is too rough for me, and not to mention TOO loud, but I still love her, and when I can get her to sit still long enough to snuggle I try to take every opportunity to do so. That is unless Brad is here, she is very much of a daddy's girl.
The whole point of this post is how much she is learning and her cute little brain and the way it works. Abby started a new school this fall that we are all absolutely in love with! I am actually very upset that she will not be able to continue here esp. since they are trying to get the certifications to be a homeschooling umbrella school.
She is so interested in the teachings that she is learning from the bible. They have weekly bible verses that they have to memorize and she spouts them all off randomly. But that is not the coolest part.
She was learning about the story of Noah's Ark and she just loves it!
She will explain to you that God choose two of each animal to go on the ark. She understands that these were the only creatures to survive the great flood. But then there are those silly unicorns, and she has it all figured out! When she came home to tell me the story, she asked me what I thought about why there are no more unicorns, before telling me the story. Of course, I was not exactly sure how to answer this, and I just told her that they were imaginary animals. The response I got has made me chuckle every time I think about it.
Her response, was that Noah tried to get them on the ark, but they were not doing what they were supposed to be doing and goofing off so the missed it. Of course this is pretty good thinking for a 4 yr old, and I asked her where she got that and she said that Mrs. Missy at school had told her that she was not sure, so Abby came up with how they didn't make it on the ark. (I'm assuming they were learning the letter U this week, as they started off with all the "bowels") Since this conversation, when she is not listening and misses something, this is what we talk about, how the unicorns were not doing what they were supposed to be doing.
Then Abby has really been concerned (for lack of a better word) about how babies grow in the mommies tummy and how they are born. She understands that she and her brother were both cut out of my belly and that that is not the normal way babies are born. They are either "pushed out or breathed out" which again makes me laugh.
The very first week of school they talked about how God made all things in 6 days and rested on the 7th "and when he saw what he made, he said and it is good." They talked about this process for a week or so and so it all made since to her. Now granted, the bible never specifies how long a day was, (which always threw me for a loop as well as a kid) and she has very little awarness of concept of time. She understands that there are so many days in a week and the new day starts when you get up in the morning, but other than that little bit, it is all irrelavent to her.
While at her nanny's this past weekend, she and nanny were talking about babies and why it takes them so long till they are born. Nanny tried to explain to her that God wants to spend all that time on them because he wants them to be perfect, and it takes a while for them to grow to that. Abby just doesn't understand this, because "but God made the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th and it was perfect, so why can't he make a baby in 6 days?"
I know every person says that kids say the cutest things, but sometimes, I truely wish I could record things whenever I needed, like carring around a tape recorder in my back pocket.
This is just one of the wonderful reasons I truly enjoy being a mommy!
I love my ABBY!!!!!
Most of the time she is too rough for me, and not to mention TOO loud, but I still love her, and when I can get her to sit still long enough to snuggle I try to take every opportunity to do so. That is unless Brad is here, she is very much of a daddy's girl.
The whole point of this post is how much she is learning and her cute little brain and the way it works. Abby started a new school this fall that we are all absolutely in love with! I am actually very upset that she will not be able to continue here esp. since they are trying to get the certifications to be a homeschooling umbrella school.
She is so interested in the teachings that she is learning from the bible. They have weekly bible verses that they have to memorize and she spouts them all off randomly. But that is not the coolest part.
She was learning about the story of Noah's Ark and she just loves it!
She will explain to you that God choose two of each animal to go on the ark. She understands that these were the only creatures to survive the great flood. But then there are those silly unicorns, and she has it all figured out! When she came home to tell me the story, she asked me what I thought about why there are no more unicorns, before telling me the story. Of course, I was not exactly sure how to answer this, and I just told her that they were imaginary animals. The response I got has made me chuckle every time I think about it.
Her response, was that Noah tried to get them on the ark, but they were not doing what they were supposed to be doing and goofing off so the missed it. Of course this is pretty good thinking for a 4 yr old, and I asked her where she got that and she said that Mrs. Missy at school had told her that she was not sure, so Abby came up with how they didn't make it on the ark. (I'm assuming they were learning the letter U this week, as they started off with all the "bowels") Since this conversation, when she is not listening and misses something, this is what we talk about, how the unicorns were not doing what they were supposed to be doing.
Then Abby has really been concerned (for lack of a better word) about how babies grow in the mommies tummy and how they are born. She understands that she and her brother were both cut out of my belly and that that is not the normal way babies are born. They are either "pushed out or breathed out" which again makes me laugh.
The very first week of school they talked about how God made all things in 6 days and rested on the 7th "and when he saw what he made, he said and it is good." They talked about this process for a week or so and so it all made since to her. Now granted, the bible never specifies how long a day was, (which always threw me for a loop as well as a kid) and she has very little awarness of concept of time. She understands that there are so many days in a week and the new day starts when you get up in the morning, but other than that little bit, it is all irrelavent to her.
While at her nanny's this past weekend, she and nanny were talking about babies and why it takes them so long till they are born. Nanny tried to explain to her that God wants to spend all that time on them because he wants them to be perfect, and it takes a while for them to grow to that. Abby just doesn't understand this, because "but God made the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th and it was perfect, so why can't he make a baby in 6 days?"
I know every person says that kids say the cutest things, but sometimes, I truely wish I could record things whenever I needed, like carring around a tape recorder in my back pocket.
This is just one of the wonderful reasons I truly enjoy being a mommy!
I love my ABBY!!!!!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Finally
I finally got the computer back and want to write something, but I really can not think of anything worth writing.
Brad got home friday night after work and we went out to dinner. We had mexican, I will be so happy when I live in a town, that can serve more than just beer. Upon returning from the restaurant, we were outside long enough to give the dogs water and move the trash can back to its proper place, when Brad got stung by a yellow jacket, on the lip!
We have had the bug people come spray for these like 3 times and they just will not go away! This is making life hard, because they are making homes right where the kids can play, which in turn means I have 2 very fussy,stir crazy kids, not to mention mommy! Tyler being the worse of the two, since Abby goes to school two days a week. But anyway back to the sting!
Luckily Brad is NOT allergic to bee stings, but man did his lip swell up! He immediately came in and took about one and a half times the benadryl the bottle tells you to take. (my mom said he could even take more, she is a nurse practitioner) But I am sure glad he didn't take more, he was out almost immediately. I was kind of understanding, but kind of upset as I just wanted to spend some time with him, needless to say he went to sleep at 7pm on friday night. If you ask him he was just dozing, but that was not the case, I would say his name maybe 5 times before he would wake up, and no I was not whispering, as any of you that know me know that whispering is not something I know how to do.
Needless to say I didnt get to spend any time with him, but when he woke up saturday morning he was so much better. His lip was still a little swollen but not enough that you could tell just by looking at him, and the pain had gone down tremendously! So all in all my big baby is doing so much better!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
