A Whole Lot of Stuff

Oh my goodness what a week!!!

• We moved!--not far just down the street to a neighbor's basement apartment. We miss my parents but hope they are enjoying the peace and quiet, and that my dad can heal very quickly...which he is doing well so far...not including his little decision to go down a flight of stairs outside in the freezing weather, down another flight of stairs to only be locked out. My niece thinks we live in the "coolest house ever!" I think it has to do with the fact that we have a lazy susan full of snacks :) and me and the kids of course and one of her friends from kindergarten lives above us.




• I took the Census 2010 worker test and passed with flying colors, scoring just a little higher than my husband. Not gloating at all....ok a little.




• T-Rex managed to pull all the keys off not one, but two of our laptops....well we only have two. There is no Y on the computer I am typing on and the space bar doesn't want to work.




• I totally had a nervous brake down, seriously, reason why I have been absent from the computer, nothing a little counseling and drugs can't fix....at least I hope.




• Now everyone one in our family, minus the dad and myself, have thrown up in a week time frame. At least they are spreading it out, as well as spreading those germs around really well....we have been sick a lot since moving to the cold.




• Two hasn't slept in my bed all week! I think she likes having her "own" room, she and Bee share and T-rex and G-man are sharing.




• I applied for a job a few weeks back, and they hired someone before I could get an interview, but the teacher spoke with me then. She called me yesterday and asked if I could come in and interview today. I did, and she hired me on the spot. I started next week. Just two days a week, but its grocery money.




• My favorite cousin got married yesterday and or the day before yesterday? what day is it? Anyway...time flies...I got to take pictures for them and they turned out pretty good. This is one of my favorites....and another one of my favorites...




• And last but not least....sometime somewhere I signed up for guest bloggin, and I so can't remember, but I have the awesome opportunity to share with you a guest blogger. Christa over at the Domestic Goddess is living it up in Alaska, as she mothers her two adorable children. She moved around a bit as a child, with her dad in the army. ==On one of their moves she met her dear sweet heart husband. Her latest craze, besides purses, is the Wii fit, which by the way I am dying to get one....There is a whole group out there using this as their weight loss program, cheaper than a gym membership. Anyway head on over Christa and give her some blogging comment love!!! And keep on playing those video games!

From Tropics to the Rockies

Who would have thought three weeks ago when I was lapping up the sun in Hawai'i that I 'd be needing to own something more than, as the locals call them, slippers!

Yes, T-Rex and I flew the friendly skies, yet once again, and he did pretty ok, thanks to the angel sitting next to me. No real blog worthy flying stories, other than the fact that they sent me back to the check in after going through security, because there was no infant in arms written on my boarding pass, and some how the hand written note by the check in agent sufficed...come on people...wish I had had a pen to just write, infant in arms...anyway we got on the plane, we flew, he cried, he slept, he laughed. I got to meet a really cool gal, and if we were staying in Austin, I'd bet we would be friends.

Am I being a little crazy? She was cool and we have kids the same age, well she doesn't have the older two crazy ones....anyway, thanks for being so kind to my little T-Rex and for talking with me.

So we landed. In snow! Lots and lots of snow. I think T-Rex just thought it was really white sand because he reached down with his little bare hands to play in it, only to shake them quickly to remove the stinking (no not stinking, stinGing) freezing stuff. Yeah not quite the white sands of Hawaii. Not that they really had white sand where we were.

Anyway we are here, waiting on the arrival of the other four. Poor Eric wonder how he is fairing on the drive? I wonder how many times TWO has yelled "me want you to hold me." She is kind of like that, after about ten minutes in the car she wants someone to hold her. Isn't the car seat enough?

Well today I get to go buy some shoes. Not sure my fat flat feet will fit in any, I mean I have been wearing flip-flops (slippers) for um six straight months....man not sure my toes want to be confined. I had several people comment about how they (my toes) must be freezing. Is there something wrong with wearing flip flops around in slushy parking lots in 40 degree weather? At least it was warm yesterday.

Want to hear something just crazy...think that is my word for the day CRAZY....all my clothes, every last one of them...well ok there are a few skirts in another suitcase on the way, but ALL of my clothes fit into one suitcase! Yep, fifty pounds worth of clothes, undies and all. I guess I could make a good pioneer, shove it all in a bag and take off..wait isn't that just what I did? Except no pushing and pulling of carts, well I did have to carry a carseat, two suitcases (brought some of Eric's clothes), and a stroller, out to the curb to be picked up, that was a lot of pushing and pulling.

Anyway, T-rex is sad, I have babbled enough. And well things look like they are settling down...now where is the job offer???

NEWs FLASH!!!

Our family is moving in ONE WEEK!!! That is right next Tuesday night we will be boarding a plane and heading back to the main land!! Holy COW! Where did the six months go??

Yes we have had a wonderful time.

We have made some dear friends.

We have made treasurable memories!!

We will miss our island paradise!

BUTTTTTTTT.................................HOLY COW I have to PACK!!! I have to sell stuff! We were here just six months where did this stuff come from???

So off to pack! Anyone want to have the kids over to play!! We have to load our container tomorrow....um and so not ready!! Crap....was that just pistachio nuts dropping all over the floor?? Is that water running in the kitchen sink?? Put that marker down!!!

Gotta run!!!

(in the quiet of the night I will post my ninth day post)