On the positive side..

Some of you know we have had a crazy few months. Some know more detail than others.. and I know, everyone has hard times.. (I mean, think about the families of the shooting and bombings and who have lost a loved one to things like cancer..)

 It just seems like everything that can go wrong has not but everything that we thought could not go wrong has.. I shouldn't say "has gone wrong" but things are difficult. During all this I have really been trying to focus on postive stuff, and we have a TON of positive things gonig on that make our complaints seem worthless.

So, what are some positive things going on?


CHICA'S BEDROOM
Her bed has been up but a few days ago we put the fabric around the bottom! (Thanks mom, it is perfect and looks beautiful) BIG NEWS- it is time for the wall. I am at the point where I am ready for everyone's gift. I know some of you have been waiting on me. Send them my way people! For the people that are still unsure of what they want to do, this is what I am asking:  handmade, handed down, or bought.. please don't spend a ton. Small things are great (nothing huge please) I will have hooks and a shelf of two for placing. It is not going to be a thing where she can get it dow and play with it. This wall is for her to look at and be reminded of the people that support her, believe in her, and love her. We would be soooo very thankful to have something from each person in her life.

OUR POOL
This past Sunday we spent hours pulling weeds and cleaning up the patio area around it. It is clean and looks amazing!!  ALSO.. BIG NEWS- It is now blue, clear, and as of today smells like a pool!! All that is left is cleaning it. So, if the weather would work with us, Id say we will be swimming in the next 2 weeks. Considering it is supposed to rain or be cloudy for the next week, I don't think it will be warm enough to get in BUT sitting out by it while eating dinner is about to be an every night thing for us. Yesteray I just sat on the diving board while Murfy ran around it like a crazy dog. I never thought this day would come!


SCHOOL
A new quarter has begun for me! Exciting, after this I will only have 3 classes left and then externs. Now for Chica's schooling. We are very blessed to have the option of being able to choose between the 2 schools have wanted her to go to. I know we are lucky and I am thankful every moment. With that said, it is the hardest decision I have ever had to make. I have had some hard decision but they were yes or no  decisions, this is a simple YES but which one gets the yes? They both have spots reserved for her and are waiting on us. BIG NEWS- As of right now, we have made a decision and I am so excited about not having to think about this anymore. I am at peace with our choice and I know she is going to excel (whereever she goes) and do great things!


HEALTH
My stomach is better, I have pushed myself to the limit a few times with regret afterwards when it starts acting up but I can honestly say it is much better. I am not having half as many dizzy spells when I eat. My bloodwork came back normal on the things the doc was worried about. BIG NEWS- I am on day 2 of my new BP medicine and I have not had any side effects! This is amazing news if you know the story from my other "new medicine I was on for 2 days" It seems to be doing a good job, but I think it is to soon know for sure if it will contiune to work.

SPRING
BIG NEWS-  we have baby birds! The reason this is big news is because we were unsure if they would hatch. These little birds have built a huge, amazing next in our garage. We do our best to leave the garage slightly open 24/7 for them to be able to get to their eggs. There were a few times it was closed for an entire day, so I worried. There are now 5 little birds in there. The cool thing is, it is low enough for us to see them. Amazing.. simply amazing.

We leave for the beach in 9 weeks! I can not wait to see my family, my beach, and my florida sun! Not only are Mom and B going, but the husband and sister get to go too, which is awaesome news!!

It has felt like 2013 just isn't going to be our "year".. from having 2 morgatages, being late to enroll Chica in schools, my health stuff, the lawn mower breaking while our grass stands two feet tall, our pool turning green, the husband getting a shard of glass embeded in his eye, my phone crushing my toe, and honestly the list goes on and on and gets more in depth and personal.. BUT each thing (other than the lawn mower) is on the up swing. The house has been sold for a month, the shard in his eye was only a 10 minute proceudre at the ER, and everything else is looking good.. There are positives in every difficult situation and I can only focus on being thankful that we are even alive to experience the hard times.

So even though this year didn't start out the way I would have liked, it started out with us being blessed and has contiuned to bless us. Who knows, maybe Summer 2013 will be the start of nothing but great for us. If not though, its all good.. I have amazing people in my family, great friends, a roof over our head, and one smart beautiful not so  little chica. What more could a girl ask for!?

GOD IS GOOD

Just a couple pictures

New Quarter

The new quarter has begun at school. It sure has started off a little crazy though.

My schedule:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday  (one class each day.. ugh) I would much rather have all classes in one day and not have school 5 days a week for just one class. 

This is how my first day started out.

306B - English (or so I thought)   Ok, so I admit it. I didn't actually look at what class I had as I was walking down the hallway to 306B but, I knew a girl in my english class and when I saw her sitting there I just walked right in and sat down. Me being me, I was 30 mins early. We sat, chit chat, and of course I played candy crush on my phone. Another girl walks in and says something to the girl I know about what class is this. A & P she responds.. I ponder a minute.. then turn around and ask.. This is not english??  Nope, we have english on Tu/Th.. oh.. crap..  I was in 306A. CRAP.. 

So I get my binder, walk out of the class slightly embarrassed isn't everyone embarrassed when they find out they have been sitting in a class room for 15 minutes when it isn't the right class? I walk to the class next door sit down, look at my scheudal and it says Sociology 306B. OK, so I am in the right class room now. Not english, sociology.. Then again, a girl walks in and says what class is this? Another girl responds Career Development. Wait.. what? crap.. what??!  Another girl speaks up and says she is supposed to be in sociology. Thank goodness it wasn't just me this time. We wonder the halls, looking for our class. Then we go to one of the main ladies at the school. "oh, did you get your new schedule? We changed that class to another day" as a matter of fact, I checked my student portal online that morning to make sure that my classes had not been changed. considering the fact that this has happened before.  They had not updated the portal yet but there is the new schedule. Indeed, the class was moved to Tu/Th.. 

New schedule:

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday..   This is awesome.. I will not complain at all having monday and wednesdays off. I mean, heck.. as I am typing this my pool is in the process of filling up. Having 2 free days during the week this summer is more than I was hoping for.

Next Day:

I head to school.. Sit down in class (again, super early) I watch carefully as people sit around me. I don't mind sitting next to people but I can not stand sitting near people that consistently talk and giggle.. loudly. The girl from the day before shows up.. sits next to me.. all is good.. then people keep coming in. the room fills up fast. Of course, I realize I am surrounded by people behind me and in front of me that talk and giggle. The entire other side of the room doesn't even sneeze. Really?!

Next class: I walk to the room the new schedule says. Finding a note on the door, I make my way to the room that the note said go to. While in there, I check with others to see what class they have. OF course, NO ONE has the same class as me. I walk back to the first room and the note says that other class room for sure, same class. same date. I go to the front desk and she tells me my class number (the class with the note on the door) and the class room for the people that are in the room the note says to go to. I go back and send 3 people to the other class room. People keep coming in one by one and they are all for the "other" class. After sending 3 more people to another class room, I get scared that  I am the one in the wrong class somehow or another. I find a main teacher guy and he spends 10 minutes figuring it all out. I am indeed in the RIGHT class. YaY

So, after all that, this is what else I have figured out:
My English class is HUGE.. like 30 people or more.
My Emergency Procedure class is 4 hours long and wowzers but at least I will be CPR certified.
My Sociology class is going to be great (other than large amounts of homework and the crazy teacher) really, the teacher is off the wall and different BUT I think it is a good thing. I loved phycology and didn't like the teacher so being that I know I will love this class and the teacher seems like the right kind of person to teach this class. This will be the class I look forward to each day.

So, that is how this quarter has begun.. and it has only been week one. Just 11 more to go! Then guess what?! My last quarter of classes! I have 3 classes left after these. I can not believe in 24 weeks I will be headed to externs. Exciting!! 

She's Been Dreaming

It is the same routine every morning. I go into Chica's room to wake her for school. She is not one of those kids that wakes up early so it takes a few minutes for her to actually realize I am shaking her while calling her name. The moment she does wake up she scoots to the end of her bed (top bunk) in silence, her eyes still halfway shut, hair a mess, holding onto Oz, and leaning over for me to get her down. The past 3 days it has been a little different though. The moment she realizes I am shaking her while caller her name, she opens her eyes and says.. I dreamed last night. still speaking in the I am so tired and want to still be sleeping voice she proceeds to tell me if it was a weird dream or a bad dream. 

Sunday's Dream:

"there was a smurf and it was in my back pack. It kept getting out and messing with all my toys. and You put it in there"

Monday's Dream:

"there was like this train track. I had to beat it. everytime I opened my eyes the train stopped and when I closed my eyes it came back. I was standing at the train track and when it would go, I would have to like beat it to where it was going"

Tuesday's Dream:

"I was watching baby Charlotte and she like just disappeared. We were working at this restaurant place with these like tall short tall short things. (as she shakes her head in confusion) she was in her like thing.. her like stroller thing and she just disappeared. Then she just came back"

I usually have an idea where her dreams come from. The last two dreams though, I have no idea what would make her dream that stuff. Dreams are weird enough when I think about myself having them. When you really sit down and think that your child is sleeping, dreaming, having stories pop into her head.. especially strange dreams.. we all know how strange dreams can be, It is even weirder. Well, really it is kinda of freaky. I mean, what is the point of a dream anyways. (Other than Freud's explanations)

Sunshine with my two best friends..

ok, so they are my daughter and sister, but when all is said and done.. They are my best friends!! I don't know what I would do without them in my life.

We had plans to hang out in the sunshine in my driveway but after fighting off bees and wasps for a long torturous 40 seconds, we decided we would head somewhere else.. somewhere without grass and with water..

It was a perfect sun-shining day! Plans for tomorrow are to .. well.. REPEAT TODAY (with food)

Spring and Summer, Life gets better

Spring is here people.. Spring is here.

Like I have said before, I didn't really get to enjoy/decorate/love my house when we first moved in. With holiday celebrations every weekend and another house hanging over our heads.. this new house never really seemed real. It seemed like a place I was staying at.

That is changing, thank goodness

Spring is here and sunshine is out. Only a few weeks and we will open our pool. THE POOL. Goodness, it is going to be an entire new experience for me. Walking out of my bedroom, down the hall, to the door, out onto the pool area, laying in a chair, Chica swimming..

This is a good thing for many reasons. I can not tell you how much money we will save this spring/summer. Yes, it cost money to upkeep the pool BUT, think about it. I wont want to leave. We will save on Gas (since I wont be going anywhere..ever) Water (since we wont have many clothes to wash considering we will live in swimwear) Shopping (again, I wont be going anywhere) Entertainment (since we have our own entertainment swimming by day and drinking wine pool side by night) Drinks (because I think it would be good to charge a bottle of wine for friends and family to use the pool .. just kidding, unless you are feeling all giving and such) 

Other than the pool, I have been thinking about a few things to do with Chica this summer. Crafts and cooking. I just "cleaned up" my pinterest boards. One in particular was our crafts board. I pretty much deleted everything form it. There are just a few things on the board and I hope to keep it that way until I have finished those crafts. They are pretty cheap crafts which is always a plus. Like the $5 chalk board. Taking a $5 long mirror from walmart (I actually think they are $7 now a days) and painting it with chalk board paint.. then hang it in the kitchen for drawings, notes, shopping list. I have the perfect place for this craft so be looking for pictures soon! I am also excited about the chandelier bird feeder and the bird bath.

Pretty much, my spring/summer is going to consist of very few things.

Pool Side
Simple Cheat Crafts
Sunshine
Chica/Husband/Friends/Family
School

Nothing more, Nothing less  - Nothing could be better than this!!

Her First Celebrity Crush

This is what just happened..

mady: Mom, come here

me: ok, one second

Mady: :::she runs in the room, grabs my hand and pulls me::: You have to see this.. You will WANT to see this

Me: ok ok

She pulls me into the bedroom, (where the tv is playing) 

Mady: watch this show

me: ok, why

Mady: just watch.. you will see a CUTE MAN

me: oh? ::as I stare at her a little confused and shocked and slightly amused::

Mady: no, really! You will like him. He is cute. Really, I am telling you.. he is one cute man

I look at the screen as she points to the tv and there is a boy, (around 18) ::by the way, he is cute::

after stopping in mid sentence when he comes back on the screen, she says..

Mady: yep, he sure is a cute man.. at least I think so

She is now staring in a daze at the tv watching him..

Would this be the moment I write down her first celebrity crush??  

I am going to google him:

yea, so this is the guy..

Ben Bledsoe, and he isn't young.. he was born in 1982.. and he is pretty well known.. playing in things such as House (I have not watched that show) and has his own band and writes music.

Yea, she has good taste