What the Heck??

We just can't win on this house buying process. We find anything we like, and it either sells or we find something wrong. We've now settled on 3 different school districts and are looking for the perfect house in one of them. This sucks. After 3 open houses this weekend, we found another that we think may work (the above picture) BUT then I went to the city website and found something about a flood plain. Come to find out, this 'burb is in a flood zone and you have to buy insurance or something from the city? I'm going to ask our realtor more about it but it must not be that big of an issue because there are so many nice new houses in this area. This house I could possibly see as it IF we find out about the busing to the schools. I have to have busing for the kids.

While visiting the open houses this weekend, we discovered that Dominic has found another little phrase he enjoys, "what the heck?" His language is approving day to day and this you can understand plain as day. The first time he said it when looking in a jacuzzi tub and Dave and I looked at each other weirded out by it. The 2nd was a few minutes later going down the stairs to the basement. There was a 3rd, 4th, 5th, and possibly a 6th while venturing through the houses. Then there was one this morning when I gave him a cut up cinnamon roll for breakfast and another while watching Wonder Pets on TV. Alex started doing this awhile back, this phrase is possibly my fault I'll admit but she says it like I do, catching myself before I say anything bad. She'd see something at the store and say "What the...." which is how I say it. We haven't determined where Dominic got heck from. In other news Damien has discovered how to snort like a pig with his nose wrinkled up. He has also learned this is a good way to flirt when at the stores and gets everyone's attention.

Google: Ya Just Gotta Love It.

Here are my most recent searches that have landed people here on this site, I'll try to help them out. lol

• Breastfeeding And Smelly Farts- Yeah, I do think my kids had pretty smelly farts when I breastfed too. Maybe cut back on the onion??
• Minature Rottweiler- They do exist! I have the ugliest looking one ever but he'll knaw you to pieces if he doesn't know ya and he is the king. Thus the name Ceasar.
• Supernanny Car?? That car is called a Mini Cooper. I only know that because they're all over the place here in Kansas.
• What Name Sounds Like Izaiah?- I don't think there are any names that rhyme with that. Good luck!
• Supernanny Schedule chart- You need to go to Chart Jungle!!
• "throwing up" stomach bug- If you have kids, this will happen about 4-6 times a year in your house there really is no avoiding it. I suggest tons of Vitamin C foods and vitamins to try and deter it from hitting everyone. Sometimes it works for us.
• poltergeist videos- I hated that movie. Sorry I can't help you.
• Omnicef and Kid's behavior- Since we seem to have a problem with Amoxicillin not working after 10 days with ear infections, we use alot of Omincef. The only thing I've noticed is poop turns a different color and sometimes the kids get the squirts! UGH. We haven't noticed any weird behavior issues.
• Boob Pains in Pregnancy- yeah, your boobs will hurt when pregnant! They will also grow the size of Cantalopes. Hang in there.
• Quiet Kids- Is there a such thing?? If so I wish I had some! I've heard that duct tape works well but that'll probably get ya arrested so I don't suggest trying that one. Usually when I feed the kids ice cream they're pretty quiet. I guess you could try that on a regular basis.
• My Child Hates Me- Sometimes I feel like that too! I think everyone Mom or Dad does when you disipline. You could always spoil him/her to death to get around feeling that way. Good luck!
• Fucked My Bestfriend's Mom- You sicko!!! How old are you????

I Was Coming Here To Complain But..........

I just got done watching Oprah. OMG someone please shoot me now! This time it was about how people are trying to survive living off minimum wage or close to it. They showed a woman with 4 kids who's husband worked making only $9.50 for their family and how they were drowning in debt. I can't even imagine trying to live off $17,000 a year with a family of 6!

So my complaint and rant today was going to be my own financial situation. I'm not really stressed or anything on the fact that I won't be doing daycare for a few months. I guess I'm just feeling rather hurt and ran over that just because our house is on the market, the 2 mothers have already made arrangements for other care. L's mom says she can stay here till we are ready to leave. K and K's mom has pretty much asked if she can go ahead and move the kids "unless I need the money." I don't NEED her money, but it is nice to have money without getting the 3rd degree from Dave on it. I usually make anywhere from $500-800 doing daycare and it's MY money, I can do whatever with it (although I just said a few weeks ago I was saving. lol) Another thing is, she's sending the kids to the provider down the street, my old provider and I'll just feel strange still living here and having the kids I watched for 2 yrs going down the street. It'd be different if my house was sold and I was moving. If that makes any sense.

Going back to Oprah, I guess I never really thought about the "what ifs." If Dave ever lost his job, I might say unless I was doing some serious daycare again, we'd be freakin screwed. Not just alittle but alot. Here we are now living pretty much on one income and looking at houses that we'll have $1400.00 mortgage payment on. If we were living on $10 a hour, that would basically pay the housepayment. Where would the money for food, bills, gas, and a car payment come from?? After their breakdown of yearly grosses and what they really equal out to be, I did it on Dave's and it equals out to be about $26 a hour. In my mind for how we live now, I'd say that's enough for our family with me not working. We've never struggled with money, ever and have pretty much agreed to never fight over finances since we know way too many people who have divorced over money.

In a way though, you have to think if someone is supporting a family on just $9.50 a hour, have they really tried that hard to find something better or maybe even picking up a 2nd job if you have a 2 parent family. I've always told Dave if money was an issue for us, I'd go get a job at Walmart working grave yard shift. It was kind of a joke back then when I first started staying home after we had Dominic, he had just started working his current job and we didn't know how much he was going to be bringing home except for a base salary and commission but who knew how much that could be. Even though he makes decent money, we still pay $450 a month for health insurance or $5,400 a year out of his income. Owww. Maybe instead of moving to the city, we should be moving to Canada.

It's His Way or No Way

Now that Damien is starting to walk all over, we're starting to see more of the toddler side to him. NO means absolutely nothing to him, he laughs. He mimics everything so if you burp, he's going to try to burp too. The biggest thing we've noticed lately is that he isn't going to take anyone's shit. If he's watching TV and you're in his way he's going to get mad and push you out of his way. Take his toy and he's going to take it back. If he just wants what they have, he'll climb over whichever kid pulling hair or pinching and take it away. If the kids are eating something in the front room and he wants it, say a poptart, he's going to come rip it out of their hands and crawl away. I think alot of this is coming from being pushed around as a baby by Dominic and now he's not taking the crap anymore. He realizes what the other kids have done in the past to get their way so now he's figuring out how to get his. Smart little guy.

Along with turning into a pushy, aggressive little toddler he's learning other things to get his way. Such as

• Beating on the Bathroom door whining to get me out of there.
• Throwing food at me that he doesn't want and screaming till I figure out what he does want.
• Hitting my legs if I'm sitting on the couch for me to pick him up
• As soon as he wakes in the morning he instantly starts to scream at the top of his lungs to get me to hurry and he knows I will because the other two are usually still asleep.
• If you feed him let's say Ice Cream, and it's gone, he'll scream and kick for more. There usually is no end till he's had so much that he just can't possibly eat anymore. He ate about 2 cups or so of Sherbet the other day due to this.

Even though he's a pain in the butt now, he's still cute, and we still love him. Although we hope he eventually understands NO and that he can't hit, pinch, pull, and climb to get his way on everything. Or play with dog toys and get away with it like he is in this picture.

We Be Doin The Numa Numa Over Here in Kansas

You Know I'm Fat, I'm Fat, You Know It.......

Last night was depressing. So depressing that all I keep running through my head is Weird Al singing "Fat." We had to go pick up my minivan from Ford since they fixed the airconditioner and as we were driving through the parking lot glancing at cars, a good friend of mine saw me. I saw her too BUT had no idea it was her. Dave pulled around to the back and I hoped out to go get in the van to drive it home. I hear my name being called and this gal running towards me, it was Jennifer. I hadn't seen Jennifer in probably 9 months since she came back to Kansas after leaving her in the closet Cocaine loving husband. She had been a SAHM for the past 5 yrs before leaving him and when she moved back she got a job, got some assistance, and now lives here but her manager job at Loanmax causes her to work alot so we really have only talked a handful of times in the past year.

After she came running up she gave me a big hug saying she'd missed me and all I thought was, OMG she's lost a TON of weight!!!!!! We've always been about the same build since having kids, 180 lbs, 5"5'. She must have been down to 140-150 lbs. I finally said "I love your hair!!" We both have naturally curly hair and she had it straight as a board with blonde and copper highlights in it, her hair is normally just red. We talked for probably 30 minutes or so, finally told Dave just to go ahead and go to my mom's and I'd be there in a minute. I met her boyfriend that she's pretty much had since moving back since he's a car dealer and he seemed really nice unlike her Ex who kept pretty much to himself.

I just can't believe how much weight she lost and how did she get it all off of her gut?? We both had this jello, extra skin appearance on our guts after having kids and here she was now with a flat stomach wearing this tight shirt and pair of capris. She hasn't had a baby in over 2 years so maybe that's helping her out but I'm just floored on how different she looked. I know lipo is not an option money wise for her so I know she didn't do that. She had told me before moving back that she was stressing and losing weight she thought from it. Looking at her last night, I'd say she starved herself to get that way. lol (sigh) I would hope to look like that after this kiddo is born but sadly I don't see it happening. I just feel like I never have a chance to really eat right or exercise unless I'm going to get up at 5 AM or go to bed around 11-12. Right now with this babe, I'm at 190 lbs and feeling pretty shitty about it. As soon as we came home from my Mom's last night I asked Dave if he noticed how much weight she had lost and he said "uhhh yeah! She's lost alot." Thanks Dave, that was comforting.

Had the most insane weekend ever with how much we had planned. Helped my Mom Saturday morning with a yard sale. Dave's class reunion was Friday night, Saturday Afternoon and Saturday Night plus we also had an open house on Sunday.

The reunion was so boring compared to mine last year. Pretty sad but I guess what I heard from the gal who put it on was that mainly girl classmates signed up and brought their husbands. There weren't many guys (which was about all I would have talked to in his class) that we knew! Our friends showed up from Kansas City. Dave's been friends with David since grade school and after we started popping out kids and they moved, we pretty much lost track of them. They still haven't supposedly started trying for kids which surprises me but Dave says "some people just don't want kids and would rather spend their money in other ways." Uh huh. Well whatever but they couldn't believe we were having a 4th. I told them it was an accident but we're happy as ever about it. We had my grandmother watch the kids for friday nights dinner and told her we'd be back by 10. We were so bored we left at 8:15 and then thought driving around what the hell to do without the kids and couldn't come up with anything so by 9 PM we were home. Same with Saturday, dinner at 7:00 and we were bored and left by 9. We ventured back to my dad's to pick the kids up at 9:45. I feel completely weird being out without the kids since we don't do it often.

Sunday morning I spent cleaning like a madwoman for our open house. We had an older couple show up 15 minutes before it started. I told them we were leaving but the realtor should be there any minute and told them to feel free to walk around outside. It was strange seeing an older couple coming to look at your house but all I care is that someone buys it! I have a good feeling this open house went better since he put directions in the ad this time. I hope he calls today with some feedback. Someone decided to check out our hot tub as the lid was down but unlatched. Ummmm hot tub is NOT coming with the property, sorry peeps. I may leave the $200 swingset, but I'm not leaving the $7200 hot tub.

Last week K and K's mom told me that she's going to have our old daycare provider provide care to her kids after we move or possibly before we even get an offer on the house. This provider is the one that lives down the street from me and when I would have to be off, I'd have her ask the lady if she could watch her kids for the day. Well apparently Diann is going to make room for her 2 girls even though I'm pretty positive she's running more than her legal limit of kids down there. Once we get an offer on our place I'm sure I won't be bugged by this but for now I'm a bit pissed. K and K's mom already asked if she should go ahead and transfer the kids down there or if I wanted her to wait and I told her to wait. I'm sure Diann probably told her that she needed to start them right away or something. Dave says if they leave and we haven't moved it's no big deal but for some reason I'm bothered by it. I've had people calling for daycare and once I tell them that I can do care now but our house is on the market, they are completely turned off. We don't need the money but it's always nice to have extra I guess, plus I'm wanting to save up all the money I can for the birth of this baby on the way. I don't see me doing daycare for atleast 3 months after we possibly move since the paperwork from the state can take that long to get back. I'm starting to feel like maybe this moving thing was a bad idea. School enrollment is in 1 week now.

Happy 3rd Anniversary To Me!!

This morning Dave called me on his cell phone to say Happy Anniversary. I. Had. Forgetten. Again. He thought that was great of course. The past 2 years I have forgot. Yep, but I don't feel too awful about it because honestly to me when we got married we just had a small ceremony at the house and signed the paper. To me, we've been married since highschool, April 1994 to be exact when he told Amy to bug off. I actually met Dave around Fall 1992 when I was dating a friend of his. When I first met him he looked like a total thug with the big ol Starter Jacket, baggy jeans, ball cap. I thought he was cute then but we didn't ever show any interest in each other till around July 2003 when we hooked up after seeing each other at the mall. It was short lived as I found out that he lied and was still seeing his girlfriend Amy and I went on a I HATE YOU strike. I glared when I saw him, wouldn't speak to him, Amy yelled crap at me trying to always start fights. Gotta love highschool. Finally we ran into each other in a group of friends, there was no escaping this time so we started to talk, then hang out again, and Amy was not having it even though he had tried to tell her it was over she kept coming around. It took some sneaking around and me trying to beat her ass a zillion times but by April 1994 we were rid of her. She hated us for years but now when we see her we say hi to each other.

I think hooking up with Dave at such a young age really saved me from alot of dramas that could have happened in my life. At 15-16 I was constantly drunk on the weekends, smoking cigs, and my friends and I would try to hook up with much older guys driving sports cars dragging Main Street. Half the time I never knew who's house I was at or where the hell I even was. Once I woke up in a field with friends. Even with Dave I was still having a hard time settleing down though. We got our first apartment at 18, had parties almost nightly, smoked some weed and blamed the smell on the neighbors upstairs. Then we realized wow we're throwing alot of money away with rent (and beer for that matter), we should buy, so we bought our first house at 19 years old. The parties slowed down when we started working full time jobs, then at 22 I got knocked up and had Alexzandra. I guess you could say that's when the adult life kicked in. lol

We only got a few vacations of actually having sex in a hotel room before having kids but ya know, that's ok. I'm happy with life as it is now even though we've contact with alot of close friends who didn't follow our footsteps, that's just life. That's what reunions are for. We've grown so much in the past, our love is completely different than it was back in highschool. Back then I could have moved on if he would have found someone else, now I would say I'd probably die without him. He is my life.

Life Stages

I'm an emotional/hormonal mess right now with everything going on in life. I'm either laughing my ass off so much that I start crying, bitching over nothing, or sobbing to a nonsob-able song playing on the radio. The kids have added to this clashing with different things that they are now doing. I'm either super mad at one of them or laughing at something they've done. For Example:

Alexzandra is now at a stage in her life where she is ALWAYS right. Not just some of the time, ALL of the time. Did you know Enzyte is for women? No? Well according to her it is. This one almost made me pee my pants from laughing so hard. We've also been blessed with her knowledge on how to drive the car, when to pass, when you are driving to slow, and when to go ahead and turn infront of people. By the end of a car ride with her, you may be hoarse from telling her to shut up.

Dominic is in the hardcore stage called MINE. I'm sure everyone is aware this happens to most kids but Dominic is just a flat out bully. He wants all toys, regardless of who had it first and will push, shove, and hit everyone to get them. I'm constantly giving back toys and yelling at him for hitting Damien. Five minutes later though he may share out of the blue and I'll give him a hug and say thank you.

Damien is at the Everything I do is funny stage. I laugh at him sometimes but anymore I feel like I'm going to beat his little butt if he keeps it up. Don't try falling asleep on the couch as you may get a nice smack in the face with him laughing as he does it. You tell him "No" he laughs. He throws food on the floor laughing because you're saying "no." You may want to always wear shoes in the house because he'll bite your toes when you aren't paying attention either. Then smile and laugh while doing it.

Even though they drive me nuts about 3/4's of the day, I'm glad I have them to keep me on my toes. I love being their Mom.

I'm Pathetic, I Know.

We had our open house yesterday, got the house looking really awesome, then went out to eat at Montana Mikes while we waited. I really really thought for sure we'd have alot of people come through but now we find out only 3 potentials came through and they were all women and didn't even bring their husbands with them. I'm completely bummed by this. I know it's only been on the market for 12 days and we've had 5 people come through in that time which is good but still. There is no way we'll be able to sell this house and get Alexzandra and Dominic in school in time. Enrollment is coming up in 2 weeks. I knew how stressed I got with selling our last house so any stress is my own fault since I decided we should go ahead and do this.

Talking with Dave I asked what we should do if no one acts interested at all. Lower the price by a few thousand? Say screw it and stay here? Mainly I just worry about the kids and school. If it doesn't work out, I guess we'll just stay and try in May next year. We both don't want to rent it out and have to worry about 2 house payments. 12 Days and I'm already turning into a pathetic worrywart.

Name Wars

It's been a battle when it comes to naming each of our kids. We constantly disagree all the way till the birth on a name. I would like to stick to a D boy name since I have a David, Dominic, Damien, and ???? Now if it's a girl, since Alexzandra is an A name, same thing, stick to an A girl name. Dave thinks this is stupid and if it's a girl he still wants the name to be Mia Isabella. He has no idea for a boy yet. Mia (Mee-ya) Isabella has been his choice girl name since I was pregnant with Dominic, and he's just waiting for the chance to slap it onto a little baby girl with his last name. I think it's pretty too, but poor Alex was given such a long pretty name, I think if we had a girl she should have something similar. Now I don't usually give out names that I'm thinking of because of the family crap of "what? Why did you choose that? That sounds funny." But the names I've got my mind on so far are the following. And if anyone can think of a D boy name that sounds good with my funk-de-fied last name, shoot 'em at me.

Here's our kids names right now.
Alexzandra Italia
Dominic Izaiah
Damien Izac

Boys- D'mitri, Daniel, Dante
Girls- Arianna, Abrianna, Adrianna

All 3 kids have I middle names so for a girl I want Isabella, for a boy not sure yet but if you know one again that sounds decent with his last name let me know. LOL Of course Dave objects to all my names.

Debt Diet Takes Effect

So I gave myself an envelope of $80 till Dave gets paid on the 15th and then I'll keep $200 for 2 weeks. I went to McDonalds with the kids for lunch and spent $9 and wrote it down, stored the receipt. I'm alittle paranoid about carrying money as it seems to disappear quicker than money in the checkbook so I guess that's where writing everything purchased onto the envelope comes into effect. My Dad gave me $100 for my birthday 2 weeks ago and I think I lost it. Lost it or spent it without knowing. We're BAD with leaving money laying around so with our house up on the market, we're really going to have to be careful. I made sure I hid the kids piggybanks which have over $100 each in them.

We have decided on 2 houses and are working on getting approved for a loan. It looks like we can get one but we're gagging on the 6.6% interest. No one else has came through the house and it's been on the market now for a week. That's alittle depressing. Our open house will be Sunday though so we'll see how that goes. There's so many little differences between the two houses that we're in love with.

House A built in 2001$160K
Big Big Lot- 13300 Sq Ft!
Laundry in basement BUT it has a laundry drop so that's awesome!
Lots of basement storage!
Doggie door in the kitchen! Awww!
Has a HUGE back patio next to the deck for the hot tub
Dining room floor is carpet, this will eventually have to be changed to wood like the kitchen
No HOA fees, means no playground, no community pool, no nice walking paths.
1450 Sq Ft Top level- fully finished basement

House B Built in 2004 $172K
Small Lot- 9800 Sq Ft- that's 3500 Sq Ft smaller then House A
$300 HOA fees include pool, playground, walking paths, exterior maint.
Laundry is on the top level
Fireplace has built in spot above for 27 or so inch TV
Floor in dining area is wood floor
1250 Sq Ft Top Level- fully finished basement- Hardly any storage they finished so much.
Basement has built in Wetbar and entertainment center
Basement and top floor have built in surround sound
Master Bedroom is smaller only 12 x 12!!! House A is 15 X 13!
If we went for this house and couldn't get the owner down, we'd sell our gas guzzler 01 Dodge since the payment would be higher.


I even scoped out houses up to $200K and they are all compare about the same. These houses to me look nicer then the $200K houses. The main thing I care about is the kids. I know the kids LOVED the community pool that was only about 200-300 feet down the sidewalk but do I want to get that close and personal to my neighbors in my bathing suit?? House A had no HOA which means we could do a nice pool, our dogs probably wouldn't be much of an issue, and the yard is huge but I worry ALOT about that white/tan carpet in the dining area. I can handle basement laundry as I do that now and that nice oak laundry drop would be great. I could just take everything to our bedroom, you walk in the closet and drop it all down the hole. I told Dave I would be worried that Dominic would jump so the closet would probably have to have a lock.

Anyways- as you can see the kids are always first. That's the only thing I think of in life anymore. We never think of ourselves, it's always what's best for the kids. I'm torn on which house would be better. Both are in very kid friendly neighborhoods but I just don't know. I really think House A but then I look at House B and I'm torn! Well Damien awoke! Better get off here. Have a great day!

Debt Diet

Ok so shoot me now as I say I'm not a big Oprah fan. Honestly I've seen her show only a handful of times but as I was flipping channels yesterday I came across the show and they were talking about a "diet" so I had to watch since I have a weight problem. As I watched though they kept talking about curbing spending, watching what you spend, and the term Debt Diet came up. I finally realized the diet they were referring to was a diet from spending. I was SUCKED IN. Unfortuately I missed the first episode, but I caught the 2nd. Has anyone else been watching this?? Some of the key points were check your credit score, destroy debit cards which I have always been against using anyways since sometimes you forget to write things down, cut out extras anywhere you can and use that money towards a debt, and live on a cash weekly budget. What a great freakin idea! I never have been keen on carrying money around, I've always used my charge card and paid it off or wrote checks. The only thing about using my charge card is sometimes I don't always pay off the $600 or so I may charge in a month so then I get charged 11% interest. Mainly I use my credit card because it's a Upromise and we get money back for college, sounds like a great plan, till you subtract that money from the interest you've occured in a month!

I've been pretty good with a budget on our bills in the past but the rest of the money I just spend, I don't save anything usually. It drives Dave insane. I'll put $1600 on our bills (House, car, electric, gas, phone, cable, cell, credit card) then pretty much spend whatever without even thinking about it so I plan to try the Oprah Cash Weekly budget and see if this helps us save. I'll give Dave $50 and me $150 a week to spend on what we need and I'll keep the money in an envelope as they said on the show so I can keep receipts and write what I bought on the envelope. We'll see how it goes but I'm hoping if it works, we can really start hauling in the money on our savings. As I mentioned in a previous post, Dave's already thinking I'm blowing all our money on junk and we have should have thousands more in our savings then what we have now. So now I will prove to him that I can control where our money is going!

Don't miss Oprah today! It's Part 3 of the debt diet!!! If you want to see more on this, click here for her site.

Can I Complain Yet??

I had a feeling this would be probably the hardest pregnancy out of all the kids

#1- Damien was just born 12 months ago
#2- Now I have 3 kids to deal with while pregnant
#3- Past pregnancy problems would probably pop up again

I have discovered the last few weeks that my right leg has been bugging me in 2 certain spots. Vericose Vein spots. When I was pregnant with Dominic I noticed this bubbly part of my leg and with further investigation found it to be the start of a vericose vein. It didn't bug me at all pain wise just the way it looked was what bugged the hell out of me. It hasn't grown any but when I was pregnant with Damien I noticed down by the back of my knee was turning really purple. More investigating with a mirror I discovered some nasty looking spider veins. So now at 13 weeks, I've noticed my leg almost feels bruised from up by my crotch where the bubbly one is down my leg to the back of my knee where it's just purple and looks like a bunch of spider veins. Alittle worried here on how my leg will look at the end of this pregnancy and if I will have this bruised pain for the next 5 1/2- 6 months.

Still no news if the people that walked through on Sunday liked the house. With the open house coming up this Sunday, I'm hoping that will bring alot of potential buyers through, maybe putting some pressure on the first people that came through to put an offer in before someone else does. We have exactly 3 weeks now till enrollment begins so I'm hoping someone puts an offer in by then so I can call the school and find out if it's ok that we enroll our kids. If they say yes, we plan to move over there into a hotel till we close and can get into our new house. I'm so worried this isn't going to work out with such a short time frame.

Kids started swimming lessons last night and my sister's kids are in the same classes. She gave me dirty looks while I smiled really big at her, we didn't talk. My mom says just apologize so she'll get over her little hissy fit but I don't think I should have to apologize for making a comment about not having to drop my kids off to go to a store. She's weak, I swear. I don't see how something so stupid made her so mad. I know she gets mad because I have it so much better than she does as far as the family life. She hates that I don't have to work and that Dave is such a great guy. She's working her butt off to pay for gym memberships and supplements for her Cop boyfriend and a new Ford Explorer that they just had to have putting them $30,000 in debt! Sucks to live above your means when you don't have the money. Glad that's not us.

Damien Smurf

First off, sorry the pics are not the best quality. We have horrible lighting in our kitchen and then with a new one year old having cake for the first time ever, there seems to be some fast flying of the hands all over the place cramming cake and icing in the mouth causing pictures to blur alittle bit while his eyes bulge out and he's silently saying "why the hell haven't you fed me THIS in the past?!?!" I didn't get a picture of the end results but his face was completely blue like a Smurf, or the Blue Genie if you've been watching the King of Cars. lol










Damien's little party went well on Saturday. We had about 15 people all together, devoured pizza, cake and icecream. He wasn't overwhelmed at all but kept hiding in my shirt so he was still a bit shy. He got a fire truck, dump truck, clothes, a Speed McQueen car, and a road ripper Saturn and over $100. Can anyone tell he loves cars and trucks?!? He loves his new loud vehicles and is pushing them everywhere. We specifically asked for small toys or no toys because we have way too many around here. I'm sure anyone coming through our house since it's for sale will probably be thinking "spoiled little brats!" when they see our kids rooms plus all the toys outside.

We had our yard sale saturday morning and didn't do so hot since it rained for over a hour so we're doing another on Friday evening. I have too much going on Saturday morning. Sunday evening we had our first person come through our house. We went out to eat at Chili's while we waited. I told Dave it's a bit odd that a month ago I said yes to selling the house when we were eating at Chili's and now we're sitting there eating while someone toured our house. We have our first Sunday showing this Sunday. One daycare mom knows the house is on the market, the other will find out in about 30 minutes. lol I really don't care what they think honestly. At Walmart Saturday I ran into a Mom I know who Alex and her daughter were in the same class and told her. I basically just told her it really wasn't fair for me to sit on my butt at home and expect him to make all the money and spend 1.5 hrs on the road commuting daily. I know alot of the Mom's I'm friends with because of Alex's school think I'm nuts right now. I'll miss everyone but we've really got to do what's best for us as a family. I think moving is really going to help us out quite abit with Dave being able to get off work easier to help with appointments and kid activities. I think the school district we'll be enrolling the kids in will offer the kids more than the one Alex is in now. I think we'll be ok. Then of course this could just all fall through if no one likes our house! We'll see.

Here's Another Tag!

I was tagged by Colleen on this one. I thought this one was fun because we don't really think of just ourselves anymore, everything we say or do has to do with our family.

A few things that have nothing to do with my family, but make me happy:

Line Dancing at the bar- I LOVE to line dance, 2step, or triple!
Amaretto Sours- best drink on Earth!
Cheesecake
Shopping
Horses
Rock or Country Concerts- Haven't been to one in ages though!
ER- I've been an ER fanatic and have watched every episode since it came out way back when.
Couponing- I love finding deals where i get something for nearly nothing or sometimes for free!
talking on the phone to friends
Going to Wichita and watching a WWE match and seeing sweaty hot wrestlers!
When Dave and I ride our mountain bikes
Jamming to the Red Hot Chili Peppers- my favorite band of all time
Watching Nascar on our 60 inch

For this one I tag....Michelle, Jenn, and Angi (because she needs to blog again!) Have fun!

Tagged Again!

Allison tagged me a while back and I'm just now getting to this!

5 things in my refrigerator:
2 new Gallons of Milk
A Bottle of Acidophilus since I guess it's supposed to be kept in the fridge!
Easy Cheese because we can't live without that!!!
2 Gallons of Kool-aid made up in space saver spout jugs
Roasted Chicken that I made last night

5 things in my closet:
Locked up Guns
a Terarium full of Pennies
2 latch hook projects I've had in there for 5 years
Dave's Motorcycle Helmet
Love notes from highschool from Dave and a former boyfriend.

5 things in my purse:
A Binkie
Tons of Receipts
Tampons although I don't think I'll be needing those for awhile
Crayons
Cracker packs stolen from Sirloin Stockade for Damien

5 things in my car:
Movies- Lilo and Stitch, Scooby Doo and Madagascar
2 highback sports boosters and a Safety First Convertible
SNACKS- lollipops, potato chips, Rice Krispie Treats, Animal Crackers, etc
Diaper bag stocked with everything you could possibly need
Purell

5 People I tag are: Kristi Ann, Sheri, Colleen, Deanne, and Cristen!! Get busy!

How Do People Do This?!?!?!

I'm a bit sad, anxious, and overwhelmed with how this is all going to go with our house. I woke my happy ass up at 6:15 yesterday morning and thought, "the realtor's taking pictures today! I gotta get to cleaning!" That was the plan atleast, the fact is, it didn't happen that way. The kids woke up at 7:00 and Damien woke up completely soaked since we just threw him in bed after coming home from the fireworks last night. They all 3 were hungry little pigs so I fed them and rushed them to the front room as I started running the marathon of house cleaning. I used to be a perfectionist with house cleaning till the kids came along but now I realize I'm beat. There's no way to have a perfectly spotless house with kids but my brain still doesn't quite register that well. If anyone plans to come over, I need a notice and if I don't get a notice well I'm probably only going to keep you in the frontroom which I clean about 10 times a day so it's usually clean. If it's messy and you arrive without a notice I will talk and clean while you sit.

For the most part, I got our room cleaned except I threw junk on the bed and now I'm afraid he snapped that in the picture he took.

Damien and Dominic's rooms looked probably the best in the house.
Ok well I think the kitchen looked pretty good except for the floor grout needs scrubbed. I hate Grout!
The frontroom picture will probably look like this. I was so sad because the kids had drug out all this junk and I had just cleaned it maybe 30 minutes before he showed up. Notice all the pillows are ON the floor instead of ON the couch. I'm about to burn all the pillows to both couch sets.

Alex's room was a wreck. I hadn't got to it yet. She tried cleaning it. Tried. Her bedspread is hanging off the bed. Ugh. This is going to suck cleaning everyday after these 3.

If he got a pic of family room in the basement there's Alex's toys laying around. I need to just sell off all the toys and I should be ok. lol

The sign is in the yard, we're ready to go. I looked at 2 more houses and back at another that I really like. All 3 are on the water. We plan to do wrought iron at whatever house we get to utilize all our yard space since it will be tiny compared to what we have now and so the kids don't drown. Dominic would be so hard to keep out of the water so gates will be padlocked. lol

Hi, My Name Is Booger.

Today was supposed to be a routine appointment. It didn't turn out that way. I decided to haul the 3 kiddos along with me since it was supposed to be just a pee in a cup, weight, blood pressure, heartbeat, and a few words from the Doc. Nurse wanted to do the heart rate first so she tried and tried for about 5 minutes. The whole time I kept thinking maybe I didn't hear the heartbeat, it was probably placenta and there's nothing there. Damien was so upset screaming on the floor beside the table. She sent my Dr in who tried for about 5 minutes as well. My stomach was getting so sore from the doppler being pressed into my gut, Damien was still upset. Finally the words I knew that were coming "we need to do an early sono, I'm sure everything his fine." Yeah sure, like I haven't heard THAT one before. After an agonizing 45 minute wait for the sono room to open up and my Mom arriving to watch my monkeys, I finally got in. She first did a normal sono and said she could see but it wasn't that clear so I just came right out and asked since I've dealt with this same sono tech for years "is there a heartbeat?" She said yes so then we did an internal, got the measurements and are at 12 wks 3 days on target. I saw him/her jump around for awhile, kick their feet around and move their arms. Thank freakin God. I went back to the waiting area, Damien screaming for me, gave Mom the pic, and Dave had just walked in the door from getting off work. I told him this one's name is Booger since it gave us a scare and of all days on Damien's Birthday. I made my appointment and he just stared and stared forever at the pic and then said "look it's got feet." lol

Happy 4th!

My online time is becoming less and less each day. The house will be listed tomorrow for sale. I keep watching Sell this House and wondering what people will think when they venture through here. We're pigs, slobs, I can't clean worth a shit, and we live in clutter?? Maybe I should set up my camcorder for some feedback. (sigh) Either our realtor is telling the truth or filling our heads full of crap, but he's saying there are more buyers then sellers right now and they've had houses lately actually sell more than the asking price from multiple bidders. Wouldn't that be nice! This better happen fast. Our last house took 4 months, HELL is what that was. Lots of tears, screaming and bawling to Dave because I was so sick of the whole deal. Then living with my Mom for 3 weeks since we didn't find a house in time was no fun either. Thankfully Alex was only 11 months old. Here we are 5 yrs later with a 6 yr old, 3 yr old and a 1 yr old and pregnant again. This is not going to be an easy move.

I believe we found the perfect house though. It's a lake property, tons of kids in the neighborhood, deck overlooking the lake, awesome decor with faux painting, tons of room, even a little pad ready for the hot tub. Only thing missing is a fence which should be easy enough but it'll have to be wrought iron because of the lake, so no view is blocked to the other property owners yadda yadda. Stupid rule I say but whatever. Dominic shouldn't be able to climb that type of fencing....you'd think.

Damien's birthday party, a very small party, is planned for Saturday evening. I told my mom having birthdays one after another is just not going to work. I'm going to combine or something because I can't do this every year. So I figured a late January birthday for new baby and Dominic and a late June birthday for Alex and Damien. LOL My mom sort of agrees although she thinks they should have their own little parties she can understand my reasoning. We're doing pizza and pop and buying a cake. I haven't thought of a gift yet.

My 12 week prenatal appt is tomorrow. I'm hoping everything is ok in there because I haven't been able to find anything with the doppler but twice. I'm paranoid. I also stopped taking my temperature after doing it forever which was a big security to me seeing those high temps. Here's the link if you're bored enough and want to look at a pregnancy chart. LOL http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/dsdidomenico Damien's is on there too. I think I actually charted longer with him.

I'm tired, need a nap but unfortunately I probably won't get one. Hope everyone is having a good 4th!

I Don't Know

D was off early yesterday, actually was home by noon, so I had a LONG day with him. Love him but I think it's best he's gone M-F 7-4. lol I asked him if he was paid since it was the 30th and on the 30th he gets his big check, the one with the commission and you could see the worried why look in his eyes. He has this perception that I blow all the money which I somewhat do but it's not like I'm buying tons of shit we don't need or anything. I simply pay the bills, buy grocceries, buy the normal Walmart stuff, pay for all of our eating out in a month, and gas. I'm not out getting my hair and nails done or buying CD's. Just normal things. Since I was on our online banking account, he ventured over to look. Oh brother. I hate when he does this because then he gets nosey. He decided to add up all of his checks that were deposited since January and then figure out about how much in bills we've paid in 6 months. Ummmm....there was a big off set. Bills were about $15,000 or so less then what had been deposited. But then I told him to figure I'd paid $5,000 on the hot tub in 3 months so that made a difference. Then he started getting bitchy because he thought about it and said "wait, I haven't even added in your daycare money" which is about $800 or more a month. Then comes "where's all the money going? We should have thousands of dollars in savings?" Dude, I don't know. I told him I'd start watching money better. I know we eat out at least 4 times a month and that's $120 then when I take the kids out I probably spend about $50 a month on that but I seriously could not tell you where the money goes. We probably spend about $50 or so on toys each month for the kids but that isn't going to add up to $10-15,000.

He was also blown away by the fact that I had put $270 in gas in the van in a month. $100 of that was from going to Colorado but the rest is from running around. And today I'm going to Wichita, a 45 minute drive, to look at houses. We have been running around more with no daycare kids around, that's true and I've been picking up Dominic from school so he doesn't have a hour and 20 minute bus ride home. He then told me from now on I need to stay home unless I truely need to go somewhere. Sure, I'll get right on top of that.