Last post of the year...maybe...

I can't believe that 2006 is almost over. Where did it go. I remember when I was a kid and the time would go by really slow and now that I am an adult it seems to fly by. Looking back on 2006 almost seems like a blurr. We started the year off with the husband being deployed until April. When he came home he finally bought a new truck, which he needed so badly. Then in June we found out that we were PCS to Ft. Bragg from Ft. Campbell. We also found out that our dog Max had cancer. We put him down right before he had to report by August 20th which didn't really give us too much time to get ready to go. The house went up for sale, we took a house hunting trip to North Carolina in July, and by August 17th we were off to our new location. I registered the boys in school while we lived in a hotel for 2 months until we found a house to buy and closed Nov 1st and got our HHG Nov 6th. We did manage to have our first Thanksgiving and Christmas in our new house and here it is the end of December already and the start of a new year is right around the corner. So I ask where did this year go?

So do I dare make a new years resolution? I could stand to loose a couple of pounds,(living in a hotel does not make for a good eating situation) make some new friends, start my workouts again, (I sure do miss them), try to be more patient and understanding, get my last two rooms organized, boy this sounds more like a to do list which I have many of.

I can say that I do miss my old friends, especially the ones from Ft. Drum. I really didn't get to spend a lot of time at Ft. Campbell, only two years compared to Drum which was 11 years. I made some great friends that I still keep in contact with. I especially made some great friends from the PBS TV station that I worked at. As much as I complained about it I really had some fun times and great memories.

So I guess my new years resolution would be to make some more great memories.

May hope, love, and warmth be in your heart’s possessing, and may the New Year bring you and yours many blessings.
Happy New Year 2007.

Added some pictures

First, I like to say that the EAGLES won and have clinch a spot in the playoffs. Second, I have added some pictures to some old posts that I have already posted. Yes I know I should add them as I am posting but I didn't. I added some of the boys at Christmas, the new dog Sa-Mi and Buddy, the Charlie Brown tree, my son N. birthday, the front of the house and one of me and my daughter when she came to visit me. I will try to be better at adding the pictures as I do the post.

Christmas Day...

N. is on the left
J. is on the right


So far today has been a very relaxing day. Except for all the rain today. The boys didn't get up until 10am and then we opened gifts. They acted surprised just for me. Actually they knew everything that they got. I did get a gift that I didn't know about. It was a Harley bear with a stocking attached and inside the stocking was a pair of Harley earings. I was really surprised since I already got Sami the dog for Christmas. All in all it has been a very nice couple of days.

Last night we all including the husband went to church. The church kids were really cute as they put on their play for all of us. Yes it was really crowded but that is to be expected. After that we came home and had some snacks and just hung around in our PJ.

So lets see Santa brought the kids cloths, husband got a cordless drill and a new helmet, can't wait to go riding, I got a dog and earings. Husband made a really nice dinner with turkey and ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn and muffins. We had pumpkin and apple pie and now I am going to sit down and watch the Eagles beat the cowboys....GO EAGLES......

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas....

Friday before Christmas...

Here is it Friday before Christmas. I have to admit that things around here have been pretty good for the last two days. After the blow up on Wednesday, I think he knew that I had had it. I started looking for places to rent. Actually that is pretty funny since I don't have a job yet. But I have to say that I was called the other day for an interview. I don't want to go into details just yet. I was really surprised since I sent my one and only resume out about two weeks ago and thought that it was just trashed. The interview is not until the beginning of the year which is fine with me. It will give me time to finish up some stuff I need to do around here.

It's been raining here all day long. I had some last minute stuff to do...or should I say my husband had some last minute stuff for me to do and then we met for a nice lunch. I have to say it is really nice that the kids are older. I do miss some of the excitement that goes along with the belief of Santa...but it was so nice to go and just have them get stuff that they wanted and be done with the mad rush of Christmas. This has got to be one of the easiest Christmas yet.

Christmas is really not one of my favorite holidays. It is so rushed and people get so cranky. The whole meaning is lost. I am always a Grinch during this time of year. But it's kinda of funny with this move and all the stuff that had to be done I really didn't have time to be a Grinch. So here it is the Friday before Christmas and all is done...the food is bought, the gift bought and wrapped and under the tree, the house is clean, the cookies are made, the stocking are stuffed and hung by the chiming with care in hope that St. Nicholas soon will be here.

So as the big guy in the red suit says....Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

Wednesday...

The Christmas vacation started for the boys. One is still sleeping. Teenagers, must be nice. The other one is on his computer chatting away. Me I am taking a timeout from cleaning, filing, and doing wash to post this blog.

Things here are still very stressed. Husband and I got into a hugh fight the other night. I am walking on eggs shells not knowing what will set him off. I don't know how much more I can take. I am trying to be so patient because I know most of it is from his job but I am getting really tired of being the sounding board and taking all the crap.

I can't believe this weather. I know how much I have complained about the snow when we were at Ft. Drum but sometimes I really miss not having a white Christmas and I know the boys really miss not being able to go skiing.

We finally got our tree on Friday. Not the tree I would have picked out. I just wanted a very special one since this is the first Christmas in three years that husband is home but we went to a couple of places and they were closed and ended up at Wal-Mart for our Christmas tree. And yes it looks like a Charlie Brown tree. He likes it cause it was small and cheap. I don't like it cause it was a little too small and all the pine needles are already falling off. Just one more thing to disagree about I guess.

Well I hope all my readers have a very Happy, Healthy, Safe Holiday Season and New Year.

As time goes by..

Here it is Thursday already and today is my youngest son N. birthday. He is 15 years old. Wow, I can't believe it. I took him shopping the other night and he picked up a couple of things and he wanted the rest in money. We will have a cake tonight and sing. He is really turning into such a nice young man.

Husband S. came home a night early. I was so looking forward to the last night by myself to enjoy but he left and was home by 6pm. We actually sat and watch a TV show together..The biggest Loser...how appropriate. Actually it was very nice. He did called a couple of time while he was away which was nice. It has been so distant here. We are on different pages of the book. But I have to say at least we are still in the same book. But this morning was a different story. He started up all over again. How much he hates his job, how he has no free time, how much he has to do and nobody to help him. I am so sick of it. Oh poor him.....Deal with it and get on with your life. The other night I told him to quit his job if he hated it that much of course he had to complain about that too. Who is going to pay the bills, I don't want to loose my retirement and benefits. Well then stop complaining. OK enough of that.

On a good note....I passed my written test today. I was down to number 25 with 5 wrong and had to answer that one correct or I would have failed again. And believe me it was a lucky guess. It was some question about the suspension of the car. Like I even know what that is. That is why they have car shops so they can tell me what is wrong with my car. I went there looking a mess. I decided not to fix my hair thinking that it would give me good luck since I would have to take a picture with messy hair and it worked.

I have the guy coming tomorrow to mark the lines for the hot tub to be hooked up. Soon he will have his hot tub again and that should make him happy. I feel so guilty. This is the first Christmas with him home in three years and I am wishing he was away. All of these deployments, TDY trips and PCS without me sure does take a toll on a marriage. But I have to be positive on this cause I really do want it to work out. And I know marriage is hard work some time it is harder than other time and this is one of those time.

Ok, now I really feel guilty...I stopped at the store to get some cards and thought I would pick one up for my husband so when he got home tonight it would be there. We used to get each other cards all the time. I really miss that. So he opened his card and I was in the bedroom and there was a card for me on my pillow. I guess sometimes we are on the same page.

Wow, it's Saturday already...

Buddy....is on the left
Sa-Mi....is below








Ok, where do I begin...yes the dryer was still broke...not really sure if it is fix yet since I did all the wash with it still broke. It took two cycles to dry the cloths. I called on Wednesday and he came Thursday around 10:30. Of course my husband decided to not go into work that day. We were going to go to lunch but didn't get the chance cause we had to wait for the dryer to get fixed. That was also my last resort. If it didn't get fixed I was going to go buy a new one. So after the dryer guy left he wanted to go for a ride.

We get in the truck and start driving. To my surprise we end up at FAPS (Fayetteville Animal Protection Society) to get another dog. That is what I asked for for Christmas. We sadly had to put our Max, who was only 6 years old, down because he had cancer right before we moved. There were so many dogs there. No puppies at all. We were there for about 3 hours. We ended up with a cute little Collie mix male dog. He is only 11 months old and was born on Christmas. His name is Sa-Mi (Sammy). I was a little worried about Buddy (our Shephard mix). But so far so good. He has really adjusted very well. The girls at the FAPS called him crazy Sa-mi cause he has so much energy. But he is still a puppy yet and Buddy has been playing with him which is a very good thing.

Thursday night my husband went to pick up the bike. Of course, as our luck would have it, it didn't start. So he stayed there to charge it. On Friday, my husband went into work for a little while. He was home by lunch so we had our lunch a day late. It was nice. He went and got the bike and it started so he drove it home. He started packing to go on his TDY trip and he packed his notebook but forgot that he was locked out of it. Me and my big mouth asked him if he was able to get into it and of course all hell broke loose and we had a big fight. So on our last night together I slept on the couch. When I woke up I took him to get his rental car and of course the manager was late getting there and we had to sit in the truch much longer than I planned but as fate would have it we ended up talking and it was really nice. Then we said our goodbuys and off he went. I have to say I really needed this brake from him. We have not been together this long (9 months) in the whole 12 years we have been together. He is either deployed or TDY or PCS somewhere. So I think this week apart will really be a help for both of us. It has been such a stree free day. The boys and I went to church tonight, we hit the mall, we got pizza and all ate at the table and just enjoyed the day.

Tomorrow I start my list of things to do with raking all the leaves in the front yard. But for today I am going to enjoy my last couple of hours laying on the couch with the dogs, reading a book, watching some TV and enjoying life.

It's Wednesday already...

I know I haven't posted in a couple of days. Things here are crazy one minute and sane the next. I have been trying to get my husbands hot tub hooked up. This has become a major nightmare. Who would think that it would be so hard to run an electrical line to the hot tub, but it is. I had everyone mark out their lines but no one marked to the well, which runs on electricity. So I called back and they said that they didn't run the line to the well and can't mark it. So now I have to hire a private contractor to find and mark the lines and I can't find one in the area that I live in. So who ever I hire has to drive about 2 hours to do a 5 minute job. But hopefully when my husband returns from his TDY trip next week most of it will be done.

I had to have the gas man back to fix my dryer. He was supposed to come yesterday afternoon and at 5:30 (which I consider evening not afternoon) he called to ask me if he could come today instead. He did show up on time today and ordered the part and said he will be back tomorrow morning to install it. I will keep my fingers crossed. I did manage to do my boys wash and it only took me 5 hours to do two loads. Not bad huh...

I sent out a resume today. I promised my husband that I wouldn't do that until all the work was done in the house and all the paper work was complete. But I have to say that all the unpacking is all done but it is not all put away. The job sounded too good to pass up. So will see what happens. I can always say no if it is not what I am looking for.

My dad had surgery on his knee yesterday morning. They found that is was worse than they thought. He will be in therapy for 4 weeks not 2 now, which means he will not be at home for Christmas. But he will only be about 15 minutes away so my mom can go and visit all the time.

Things for the past couple of days have been good. I never know what husband is going to show up and with me being at home and not being able to do the things I love to do...workout, tan and have a job...it can get somewhat tense around here. So I am trying my best to keep my mouth shut on some stuff and be thankful that I have a husband home this year for the holidays.

Sunday...

My daughter left today to go back to school in Kentucky. My son is home from his trip to Washington D.C. My husband is drunk and asleep in bed. I am sitting here on the computer again and my virus scan just told me that I have a virus which is in quartine. My dad fell off a ladder and is in the hospital with a shattered knee and a broken elbow. He will need surgery on Monday. My van needs to go in the shop cause my brakes are making a grinding noise. My dryer is not heating up so the gas man is coming back on Tuesday to fix it again. The men who came to mark all the underground lines need to come back cause they didn't mark all of them. My earing hole got infected so I took the earing out and now it is closed up. It was a crapy day outside and ended up raining. And there is only 21 more shopping days until Christmas and I haven't started a thing.

On the bright side...my dining room and living room are all unpacked and put away. Now I have room for our tree and I can start decorating. I get my hair cut and dyed tomorrow. Everyone is healthy and no one has gotten sick. Touch wood. I woke up without a headache today. This is a first in a long time. My daughter made it home ok. My son made it back home from his trip to DC ok. My husband didn't brake anything tonight. My dad is off the pain meds so he is feeling a little better. My husband is off for the week so it won't be an inconvience being without my van. The men who came out to mark our underground lines came out last time really fast so hopefully they will come out again fast. And the gas man asked me to call him on Monday to remind him to come out to fix my dryer so hopefully he won't forget in a day and I will be washing and drying cloths again. My ear doesn't hurt anymore so I guess it just wasn't meant to be pierced in that spot. And I did get to watch football all day long.

Friday already

Here it is Friday already. My daughter came in early yesterday around and my carpet was also installed. But my husband was in such a bad mood that it took away from anything good that happened. First he went to a clinic to get his meds for BP cause I couldn't find him a doctor who would take him any earlier that January. And I also tried to have his old doctor call in an RX but he couldn't cause we were out of state. So he ended up going to a clinic which he waited 4 hours to see a PA. He finally gets in and when he was ready to leave they charge him $95.00. Why I don't know cause the clinic is on our preferred list. So it should have been only $20.00. So today I was on the phone trying to find out why. I called our heath care provider and they said he should have paid $30.00 so I called the clinic and they said that they overcharged him. Hum...and they are a clinic. Then he went to get his license. Again he had to wait finally he got it but he had to go back today to take a test for the motorcycle part of it. So he is the only one right now with a NC license. Then off to work...why I don't know cause he is on vacation until December 9th. He gets into work and there are 75 emails waiting for him. He has only been gone one day. So after all that excitement he was not a happy camper and ended up getting drunk.

So now it is Friday and my daughter and I go and take our drivers test. The first two parts were easy. They were the eye test and the sign test. I did miss two signs cause you are supposed to tell them what they are and what they mean and two were blank. So I didn't know what they were supposed to be. Then off to the written test (which is now on a computer). We sit down put on the head phone and start choosing the answers. I got the first 12 out of 25 right and then it was all down hill from there. I got 6 wrong in the next 13 and you can only get 5 wrong altogether. So yes my daughter and I both failed. We actually laughed about some of the questions and it was fun to laugh. Thank goodness they give you back your old license. The examiner said I can come back once a day. I am going to need a lot of days for this. Not one question on DWI, or seat belts, or speed limits, or driving with your lights on when it rains. I did get questions on how long you loose your license for this and that. So I guess I will be going back on Monday but my daughter just might get her license from KY where she goes to school at.

We did have a nice day. We drove around and I showed her the area. We went to the mall and I showed her where some of the schools were. We had a nice lunch. And after all that driving around my van starts making funny noises. This was after my oil light came on and I was a quirt low on oil so I got an oil change now I thing my brakes are going out so on Monday we are going to drop it off at the Ford place to have it checked out.

My son J. is on a field trip to Washington D.C. this weekend. I hope he is having fun. My dog got away tonight. I dropped my husband off at a friends house with the dog and he got away from them and chased me down the street. I didn't think he wanted to stay there but my husband can be hard headed and made the dog stay. I guess he didn't want to stay with two drunks. Well so much for my exciting two days. I still have one more day with my daughter so I hope it will be a good one. I am going to miss her when she leaves.

Another day

Boy, sometimes days just seem to run together. I ended Monday with all those annoying mishaps and it started right up on Tuesday. But at least it wasn't as bad. My poor son J., we keep on praying that his truck will last until the end of January...well we just had to replace the steering pump. We just got the battery charged and he was able to drive to school on Tuesday and he came home and said that the steering keeps going out on him when he turns so my poor husband S. gets behind the wheel and takes it for a test drive and sure enough the steering is going. My husband thinks my son J. is like me and tends to exaggerate when it comes to stuff wrong with the car. For example I will be driving down the road and the car will start making a funny noise and of course when he drives it, it sounds fine. But anyway....when I got up this morning to take him to school, I found out that my husband has taken some vacation time and will be off until next Friday...nice communication... so my son ended up taking the mommy van (as I call it) to school and we went and got his truck fixed.

Also got the toilet fixed and the shower...YEA!!!...I also got to call an electrician to get the cord and plug going on the hot tub. So things are looking up on that end. I know my husband S. really misses the hot tub. He used to come home after work and by 9pm faithfully he would be in the hot tub.

My daughter will be coming in tomorrow. And on Friday we go and take our test for our license so I need some luck. I am a little nervous cause I am not sure if I will remember everything and I don't want to loose my license.

We are closing on our old house in Tennessee on Friday. I am a little sad cause I really loved that house and I probably won't get a house like that again. Don't get me wrong, I like my house that I have now but it is just an ordinary house. The house in Tennessee was not ordinary. And that is why I love it. But maybe after we retire we can build a house or find one like it. One can only hope and wish.....

Those annoying little mishaps...

OK, so Monday started off as any other Monday would...of course my husband couldn't sleep at all Sunday night, that is the norm. His mind just will not shut off, thinking about all the things he needs to do at work. He needs to learn to de-stress. Anyway...he leaves for work about 6am. Now I can't get back to sleep so I get up and start straightening up the house. I have a lot of running to do today so I thought I would get a head start on things...wrong... My sons get up and get ready to leave for school...a little background on the school. I did not switch them when we moved so the school is a 1/2 hour away. He gets in his truck, yes it is old, and it doesn't start. So now he comes into the house and I have to get dressed to take them to school. While I was on that side of town I thought I would try to get some of my running done. I did manage to get most of it done so I was happy about that.

First I picked up the receipts from the realtor that the seller had fixed in the house. Then I had to stop at the bank cause our new mortgage payment is wrong. (Not too happy with this bank). Had to wait 20 minutes since the bank was not open yet but it was better than going all the way home and then back again. But I didn't have all my paper work so I did end up going home and coming back again. She did try her best but I ended up calling everyone that worked on our mortgage and finally got it all fixed.

On the way home I had to stop at the DMV to pick up a book to study for the written test. Yes I have to take a test. I guess it is the rules of the state. So since my daughter is coming here on Friday to take her test and get her new plates I will take mine too and hopefully I will pass cause if I don't I guess I won't be able to drive. Oh the stress....

Then I had to register at our new church. She was very nice but talked my ear off. I guess I didn't help any either since I love to talk and will talk to anyone who will listen to me.

Then back to the bank again. Finally I was home took a shower and waited for the well man to come. This is my first experience with well water. Always a first for something. He came and did his yearly clean up and added some bleach to clean out the tanks. So when I got home from picking up the boys (cause his truck didn't start) I had to flush out the water in all the sinks and stuff. So the water was running in all rooms. As I went to turn the water on in our shower, I broke the on/off knob. So I couldn't turn it on.

So now my husband gets home from work at 6pm, and jumps my son's truck and yea it turned over so I guess it was the battery. He let it charge for a while and it seems OK. Yes it did start this morning and so far no phone calls. Then before he even gets changed from his dress cloths I have to tell him that I broke the handle in our shower. Yes he fixes it. So now I can turn the water on. Of course it splashed up on me and now one of my favorite sweatshirts is bleached. I should have know better.

Finally he decides to go to bed. I watch some more TV and then off to bed. One last flush of all the toilets and I brake the handle on our toilet in our bedroom. So I had to open the lid and pull the handle from the inside to flush it. Thank goodness we have the 1/2 bath not too far away in case. No I did not wake him but I did tell him this morning.

Hopefully today will to a little smother. I have some phone calls to made and then off to a school meeting for my son N. No nothing bad this time.

Today is my daughter's birthday...

Wow, I can't believe that 20 years ago I was in the hospital delivering my first child, a baby girl. She was born at 6:07 pm and was 8 lbs and 20 inches long. Sometimes it feels like yesterday that is happened but other times it really does feel like 20 years have gone by. She has been such a joy to have as a daughter. She has grown into such a young women. She is smart, beautiful, and independent. She has a wonderful personality too. Today she is in her second year of college, living in her own apartment and working a part time job. I am so very proud of her.

As a child she was involved in almost everything...from soccer, basketball, baseball, cheerleading, brownies and then girl scouts. She was such a big help when her brothers came alone. I am so blessed that she came into my life.

Thankful for...

I have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day...first this is my husbands first Thanksgiving home with us in three years. I so much enjoyed this day with him. He did all the cooking and everything was so great. We had ham, turkey, stuffing, yams, real mash potatoes, corn and dinner rolls. We had our first Thanksgiving in our new house and the only thing that would have made my day perfect was if my daughter would have been here too. Thank you.

Second we finally sold our house in Tennessee. After being on the market since July and numerous price drops we finally sold it. I really hate to see that house go cause it was so perfect but we will make this house a perfect one too. Thank you.

Third all of my family seems to be doing well. Some are getting up in age and I do worry about them but after calling all of them this morning all seem well. Thank you.

So today I am thankful that God has blessed me with my husband, my children, food on my table, a roof over my head, family and friends, and my pet. Thank you for all that you do and for all that I have, I am truly blessed.

Is it ever going to stop....RAINING

Ok, It has been raining for the past three days now. And since I still don't have a fence that is finished I have to walk the dog in the rain. But on the bright side I was able to come in from the rain and put all my soaking wet cloths in the dryer. It has been raining so much that I had to go move the furniture that is down near the lake up to higher ground. The water is so high that it is about to come over the dam and into the other smaller lake. It has already flooded on the other side. At least the hot tub is up on a platform. I could have never survive 40 days and 40 nights of this.

Today was a better day...

Today was a better day. The gas man came and hooked up my dryer. At first I thought it was going to be a day like yesterday. In order to hook up my dryer to the gas line the dryer vent had to be rerouted to another spot. He suggested to run it under the house and out to the back yard. My dryer vent was venting into my garage right next to my gas hot water heater where there is flame. Hum....It makes you wonder how in the world the builders got away with that one during inspection. Well anyway the gas man had to re-route the line. They went under the house to assess the situation and ran right into a wall under the laundry room. So the only way to hook up the dryer to the vent was to have the vent on the side of the dryer and you can see it instead of it being behind the dryer where it would be hidden. At this point I really didn't care and all I wanted was my dryer to work so I don't have to go to the Laundromat any more. So now I have a working dryer and tomorrow my washer will be hooked up and away I go doing laundry. Yea...

My son's N. Monitor came today too so he is a very happy camper. Also got my carpet ordered. Now I just have to go pay for it and they will come out in a couple of days to install it.

I also got to clean my house (my son N. did the upstairs for me last night) for our Thanksgiving guests. Now I just have to tomorrow is go to the bank cause they got our mortgage payment wrong in the new book they sent us and straighten that out, pay for the carpet, office depot for my son's J. ink and a bigger antenna for the wireless system, and the rest of the food for turkey day. I just hope I can get though that without any problems.

Wish you all a very Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving Day.

One of those days...

I am having just one of those days where nothing is going right. I am trying to keep a positive attitude but some how it just isn't working. Lets start with the little things...I forgot to put the trash out last night so I woke up this morning running around collecting the trash. Got that out to the curb. Check my email nothing new there. Check the blogs and got a cup of coffee.

I grab my phone and called the gas man who is supposed to install my dryer. He said he was coming tomorrow. I ask why he didn't call me to let me know. He couldn't find my number. I have called him three times and left messages with my phone number. Then I called the fence guy, I guess he doesn't know how to use the phone to call me back because I still haven't heard from him yet. Is it that hard to call me back with a date when you are going to finish my fence?

So I figured I would take a nice hot shower and as soon as I got out my cell phone rings. Its my oldest son J. calling me to tell me that my youngest son N. got his brand new not even one month old cell phone stolen at school. Now this is not the first time he has been robbed in gym class. Last month his wallet was stolen with his lunch money, his ATM card and his ID in it. I had to go a replace all of that. Now his cell phone. To say the least I was a bit pissed off. So off to school I went. And of course they can't do a thing. I suggested that maybe they should have check each kid before they left gym but it was a substitute teacher. So then I asked if she not know the rules and regulations of the school because as a parent I have to know them and sign a paper at the beginning of school saying that I read them. So I signed both of the boys out of school and we left.

Then it was off to Lowes to see about switching carpet. The guy who came and measured on Saturday said the carpet I picked out wasn't really that good and they have better stuff for the same price. So I get there and tell them what I am doing and while we were doing the wash (because I still don't have the washer and dryer hooked up yet) Lowes' calls me and asked me when we wanted our carpet installed? I said I just left there and I was switching carpet and I had to match the color with the two samples that I brought home. Maybe I was the only one in that conversation.

Then as I was talking to my daughter S. my cell rings it is the realtor from Tennessee, we are still trying to sell our house. The relo company's offer expires November 30 but my husband and I decided not to wait any longer since it has been on the market since July and we have been making mortgage payments on a house we no longer live in. So today he turns in the paper work to accept their offer and the realtor calls to tell me that someone made an offer on our house. Where was this offer last week? Oh well I said too late. And to top it off her offer was lower than the offer the relo company offered us. And she wants us to pay all closing cost and all repairs. As far as I am concerned the house was only lived in for two years and all repairs were done by us with the last inspection.

So now I am home...safe and sound....and this day is almost over so really not much more can happen today. And if one more thing goes wrong it is off to bed for the night. Things will get better tomorrow. Ok that was my positive thought for the day. The end.

Sunday..

Well it it Sunday here. We met our new neighbor to the right of us. He seems really nice. So far our weekend has been so relaxing and calm. So different from when we were stuck in the hotel. I am so glad that we are out of there.

My husband and I went shopping for Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. This will be the first Thanksgiving he will be home in three years. Too bad my daughter won't be with us. She will come to see us the week after so I guess we will have Thanksgiving all over again. We will also have friends over this year too. This is something that hasn't happened in like forever. So I am excited about that.

Still waiting for the fence to be finished and the dryer to be hooked up. Hopefully that will be done before Thanksgiving but I don't want to get my hopes up. I would love to be able to do wash in my own house and not have to get up at 6am to walk the dog. And once the fence is up we can start to look for another dog since we had to but our Max down before we moved.

I just love Sundays. The sun is shinning and I am about to go watch some football and maybe order a pizza. Sounds like a plan to me.

Here we go again...

I started this blog yesterday but lost everything...so here we go again. This moving is for the birds...I hope we get to stay here for a while as I don't want to do this again. We did manage to stay at Ft. Drum for 11 years but my husband did do two unaccompanied tours to Korea to keep us there.

So it's Wednesday, not any different from Tuesday or Thursday..I will be going to the Laundromat again to do the wash. I did have the gas man here yesterday and he will be able to hook up my dryer hopefully by the end of the week so maybe I will have only one more trip. Yesterday was a fun day..I sat and waited for the fence guy ( who never showed up), the Salvation Army truck which showed up at 1pm, and the cable guy, the gas man and the electric man who showed up all at the same time at 4:30 ish. Not that I don't mind waiting at home all day hum....no comment...

So what is my day like today...lets see get up...shower...dressed...laundry...call the electric man back again and hopefully the fence guys will show up...also go to Lowes for the carpet. Then when the boys get home, drop off J. applications for jobs, and try to get his computer fixed. He can't remember his password. That's my son for ya...you gotta love them.

It's been a while

Wow, it's been a while...first off my youngest son locked me out of the computer I was using in October. So I had to wait until we finally moved into our house and found my computer to get back online. That took so long. We settled on November 1st but did not receive out HHG until November 6th. What a nightmare...but we are slowly getting all unpacked and finding stuff. All the TV are hooked up with cable and my computer has been hooked up. Of course with any move there were some broken items. My son's N. computer screen and my son's J. desk so we were off trying to replace them. My computer also broke but Dell got me back up and running.

The house is nice. Not as big as the one we left in Tennessee but big enough for what we need. There are 4 bedrooms and a bonus room and 2 full and 2 half baths. It is almost 2700 square feet. But there are boxes everwhere and the kitchen is smaller and we are having a hard time finding spots for all the junk we have. It is amazing what you find when you start to unpack it all. So far the bedrooms are all unpacked, so is the kitchen, dinning room, living room and baths all that is left is the bonus room. The garage is getting there and we can actually walk around it. Well so much for this post...I will be back when I have more free time. Off to do more unpacking.

Friday night

Well today is Friday and we only have 5 more days until we are homeowners again. I am trying to hold my excitement to a minimum. Being married to a person who works for the Army, I learned early on that you don't get excited until it happens. Anything can change at any time. I really wanted to be in the house before Halloween but that isn't going to happen. The boys are old enough so I will just go buy them some candy instead.

I called and made an appointment for the cable and internet to be hooked up the day after household goods are delivered which is not until Monday November 6th. Can't be without TV and internet for too long and it will give us the weekend to do any upgrades to the house that we seem fit. There really isn't much I need to do to move in. We will need a fence for the dog and I would love to paint the kitchen which is pink right now. Not my favorite color but if that doesn't happen I will not be too heart broken. The kitchen is probably the least favorite room in the house any way since I really don't like to cook and don't do too much of it. But I am excited with this house. It isn't as big as the house in Tennessee but it is big enough for everyone to have their own space. The kids bedrooms are all upstairs and they have 1 full bath and 1 half bath to share. Our bedroom is down stairs and I love it cause we get some privacy being away from the kids. They have the whole upstairs as their own. Ok, so I am getting excited...

Today is a better day...

OK, so today is a better day and after venting yesterday I feel a lot better and realize that things could be a lot worse. The sun was shinning today, my kids are semi happy and healthy, I have my dog with me in the hotel on this PCS and the best of all even though my husband is stressed out and seems far away he is here with me and not deployed. We will soon be in our new home on November 1st and I will be off looking for a new job. Soon things should start getting into a normal mode. Now if I could just win the lottery...hehehe...ok so I can still wish and dream big. I just need to keep a positive attitude. Sometimes it is so hard when you are always fighting to get things done but I know it is a hard time for everyone with this war going on. So my goal for today is to take things in stride and don't sweat the small stuff.

If it could go wrong it will....

Today I am frustrated. My husband is stressed to the max with his new position and I am still stuck in a hotel. We should have been in our house already but the first house that we picked and made an offer and was accepted fell through. The seller breached the contract. So we had to start the process all over again. We did find another house and made an offer but we can't get into it until November 1st. So because of the first sellers breech we ended up in the hotel for 3 more weeks.

Second, I applied for unemployment benefits from the state of Tennessee because I had to leave my job and PCSs with my husband to Ft. Bragg, but I was denied. I appealed. I receive notice today that my appeal as been denied. Apparently the state of Tennessee does not think that PCSing with your husband is a good cause for for leaving ones job. "Relocation for the purpose of accompanying a spouse, military, or civilian is regarded as a personal reason with respect to voluntary separation with the work place" is how it was worded. It is so nice to know that there is a state out there that does not support it military or government workers.

So I asked can this day get any worse yes but it's not going to...cause I am going to bed, say my prayers and another day is about to begin. So much for my inconvenient of the day. Tomorrow will be better.

My first entry

Ok...I am sitting here reading blogs so I decided to create one for myself. We (my family and I, husband S., 2 boys J. and N. and dog Buddy) just PCS to North Carolina. Currently we are still living in a hotel. We have been here for about 2 months now. My husband works for the Department of the Army where he gets to deploy and gets to PCS. He now works at Ft. Bragg. We lived in Tennessee for 2 years and he worked at Ft. Campbell. Before that we got to live in Upstate NY for 11 years where he worked at Ft. Drum. He did two tours in Korea, no I did not go, but did have the pleasure of plowing all the snow during the winter..lucky me. He has already done two 4 month deployments to Iraq and I am hoping he doesn't have to go back too soon. No these are not his only deployments...he has deployed to Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and of course Iraq. I on the other hand, try to keep myself busy with 2 sons J. and N. in high school and a daughter S. in college. I hope to go back to work when we finally get settled into a normal life...