Oh my...

Has it really been over a month since I last posted.. I am sooo bad lately about keeping my blogger up :( please forgive me..

So in the life of me.... hmm... Everything is going well with the man and I (his name is Nick).... I started teaching at the local community college this month which has been very interesting to say the least... but it is fun.. I have 8 students including one that I graduated from high school with... Business has been slow at my job so I am officially on a part time status till who knows when.. That means that I am only working 32 hours a week... too bad it was not summer and I could be out having fun with the kids....

Dez is doing well in dance.. She is getting ready for her recital which will be in June... so that has been a lot of fun... She is learning new moves everyday.....

Seth made perfect attendance for the first nine weeks.. the only one in his class to do so at his school.. Yeah!!!!!

Oh and yes I have gotten some scrapping done... woo hoo... I made a mini album out of Wassail... Gotta get pics taken of it so I can get that posted this week

Wow 3 weeks

I can not believe that it has been 3 weeks since I have blogged... ARG! It is all good though.. my carpal tunnel surgery came out ok.. though what was supposed to have been a cyst was a tumor... benign though thank the good lord...

In the mean time I have met a wonderful guy... and I am sooo happy...


On the scrapping front.. well that has been non existent... :( Hopefully this weekend... though there are lots of plans going on as it is right before Christmas

More scrapping today

Yup I have done yet more scrapping today.. woo hooo...

I did this one off of Sketch #7 at Rough Draft Sketches... They have such awesome sketches there... and I have Alecia to thank for sending me there.... I also used the Scenic Route Liberty line.. I think that the coolest thing is that it is so versatile... This LO is in no way anything close to a 4th of July or patriotic LO... it is however one of my favorite pics of my kids from AGES ago...

More LO's Done

Well I went to a crop at church last night and I got some LO's done... WOO HOO.. I was actually productive which is not a normal thing for me lol

This LO took the longest... it is from a sketch at Inspired Blueprints ... But what is even better is that I actually did a 2 page LO...



This LO is just of the kids and I from May at the zoo



This one is of my friend Rachel's DD... They parked at our house for the Halloween Parade.. and well when they got out of the car she refused to look at her mom for a pic.. but looked at me.. so I have these cute pics of her..
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Monday is D Day

Well Monday is the day that I have to go have my surgery.... And yup I have stupid carpal tunnel... so they will be doing both my lump removal and carpal tunnel surgery... I will be off all week... Please think good thoughts and prayers for me :)

Another LO

So I have finally got some scrapping done... One of my cards I can not show yet... soon I will.. I also did another LO for the Rough Draft sketches blog .... I find that I never scrap about my self.. so I thought that this was the perfect sketch to do that.... I did forget to mention that this LO was done from the 2 spotted dogs Weekend in New England Kit...

Rough Draft Sketches...

So I have found through Alecia's blog an AWESOME sketch site called Rough Draft Sketches... It is awesome... so as one of the challenges at the crop on 2 spotted dogs they wanted us to do a LO from a sketch and I chose their awesome sketch... Here is my take on it...




If you get a chance make sure to head on over to Rough Draft Sketches...

Impromptu Online Crop

Yup you got it right.. they are having an impromptu crop.... Come join it it is a great community and it is a blast!

Oh Drs how I hate you

Well you know how you really hate to go to a dr because you go in for one thing and come out diagnosed with another.... well that happened to me... Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers the next 2 weeks.....

I have this crazy lump on my right forearm.. I know that it was something that I would have to have surgery to remove it.. I was ok with that... well they come to tell me that they think that I may have carpal tunnel too... :( I am really thinking it is just the cyst making the symptoms... needless to say I have to go have a stupid test where they put needles in your arm next week to test the nerves then 2 weeks from today I find out what they are going to do...

Please pray it will just be the simple cyst removal.. I really can not afford to take anymore time off work....

Scrapping

I am sooooo impressed with myself.. I actually got some scrapping done last night and today.. Last night Rachel and I got together and scrapped for 3 hours... and WOW did we actually get something done. I got a LO and my mini album done... Bring that forward to today I actually sat and did more scrapping... I did Sketch #3 on Inspired Blueprints So I got that done and uploaded.. it is of Desaray from her dance class parents night last month. Without further ado here it is...




Everyone should make sure that they go over and check out Inspired Blueprints it is an awesome sketch site.

What a Halloween night!

So my kids went to their dads for the weekend and my little (now by little I mean 20 lol) said hey what you doing.... wanna go to Cedar Point..... Well after looking at the website I realized that the admission for a nighttime was only $26... so I was like sure you pay parking and I can handle that... so off we went.... Well after we got in the parking lot a wonderful couple offered us a ticket for $20 as they were from Ontario and the other couple that was supposed to come with them backed out at the last minute.... so we save $6 there... and well we did not eat anything in the park but a soda... so we made out pretty good... and my goodness there was like no one there and we had a blast riding the coasters... there were like no lines and we got right on... It was sooo much fun!

WOW She will be 9

I so can not believe that my baby will be 9 tomorrow... It seems like just yesterday that her dad and I were waiting on her to be born, then when she finally was born we were faced with not knowing if she lived as she was born purple.... Though today you would never know this... especially as she is being an airhead running around the house looking for her tap shoes... saying that they were not where she left well low and behold she just found them where they were supposed to be....


I still remember how long it took us to convince my grandfather to hold her at the hospital.. but once we convinced him he loved her like she was his own.... He protected her until the day he died. In the hospital right before he died she climbed in his bed with him and sat beside him as his little helper. He was so proud of his Shanador. we still till this day do not know where he got that name from but that is what he called her and she answered to it when he called her..... Anyone else could call her that and she would not answer just answered to him


Sorry for the rambling.. just thinking about old times... and how fast time flies.

Yet another week.......

ARG! Only one more week and she will be 9.. I can not believe how fast that time flies... it seems like just yesterday she was born... she is sooo becoming a little lady.. Tonight she made us supper... yup you read it right.. she made my mom and I supper..... we had Sloppy Joes and Salad and yogurt... now mind you the hamburger was already fried so she just had to warm it up.. and I helped mix everything in the sloppy joes.... but other than that she did the rest herself... WOW I never thought I would see the day that my child wanted to fix me a meal...

Stuff

Well I really should try to keep this updated better... I am such a slacker sometimes...

I have been keeping myself way busy... I have crocheted 5 scarves this week. Also have been busy working on Desaray's birthday invites. Today will be a fun day as I am going to be working with the neighbor lady making some cards for Christmas presents.


Also this week was parents night at the dance studio where Dez is in dance at. Here are some pics from that - Guess I shoudl point out she is in the black







I will get some of my work posted later this week....

MEN!

Well the much needed update is that Joe and I have split... yeah after I had everything ready to go he decided that he did not want to come home to be married, nor did he want to have a relationship with me anymore... apparently he is not ready, but whatever.... so I will deal with it... and move on... one day I will find the perfect man that will be good for my kids and I....

So as far as scrapping wise well I have not done the scrapping I should have been, but will soon be starting again... I have got the stuff to enter a contest from the LSS so hopefully I can get that done and maybe win...

ARG! Long time...

Well they blocked me from updating this at work so I am slow... at making sure I get these updated... but I definitely have to keep this going as the days are being counted down...

So here is the update....

Joe and I will be married October 3rd.. I can not wait till he is able to make it home in 2 and a half weeks... It will be nice to be able to have him here everyday again... I also can not wait to be able to spend everyday with him...

The next is that Desaray and I will be leaving here on October 12th. That means that 32 days from today we fly out from Cleveland... I can not wait to get on that plane to go over there and spend the rest of my life with Joe.

That brings me to the third thing and that is that Seth moved in with his dad.. it is hard but I knew that at some point in time that it could happen... he is happy so that is what matters...

Well I will keep this updated more...

Wow 3 in a row

I am going to try to be the good blogger and blog just about everyday... we will see how that goes...


I have to say I am having sooo many different mixed emotions that it is crazy! First it is sooo hard when you realize that for the last 12 years I have always been the primary bread winner in my marriages... and well in less than 2 and a half months I will no longer be that.. I will be a SAHM! OMG! it is sooo freaking scary yet awesome in the same sense... Next I am sooo excited at the chance to be able to go to another country... and to start my life over.... be a new person where no one knows my past and can not judge me for anything!

Well i best get my butt in gear and get some work done it is month end after all :)

Welll....

So I told my mom last night that we have a date..... hmm. that went over way better then I thought... I guess my blog will start to become a travel update blog.. lol...

Packing
On the packing note I officially started packing my first box to send.. it is a box of scrapbooking stuff.... WOW you never realize how much you can weed out till you realize you have to move everything.. more like mail everything.... which by the way stinks.... so before anyone asks why we have to pay to move all my stuff when he is in the Air Force... it is because I will not be a command sponsored spouse... but when we get to come home I will be on the orders so everything will be paid for woo hoo....

Air Force Jargon
Wow it has been interesting getting to learn all the Air Force Jargon... or rather military jargon.. and then when I go rattling it off to someone and realize that they have nooooo clue what I am talking about... so here is the first term I will teach you...

PCS - Post Command Sponsor... This means that it is the orders of where you are to go to serve.


Well back to work I go...

August 10th...

Well it has pretty much been settled.. the kids and I will be moving to Germany on August 10th. It is something that is way exciting yet scary all in one... Sooo please think of us...

UGH!

Well needless to say it is 145 AM and i can not sleep.. I am not sure why... but it is all good.. I will come here and vent away... I know that not too many people read this so it is all good I can vent all that I want..... One of my biggest vents for the last week was that I found out that my little cousin was feeding my ex with everything that I have done... I am not sure when it is his business as he is doing whatever and been living with some girl since he left..... so I am just glad to be done with it... I guess I am sure that it will make lots of people mad but I am not putting up with her crap any more... if it means that I lose my aunt as a babysitter.. well so be it.. this shit is old...

Well then there is the whole Joe thing... overall it is going great... lets say that there will be many changes in everyones lives this summer.... I know that many people will be upset with those changes also.. but what can you do.. you can not please everyone and I have decided that if I please my self my kids and my significant other.. well than soooo be it...

On a side note... something that has come up has made me soooo excited... I found out that it is a possibility that I will be able to be a SAHM for a bit... how exciting would that be... now while I love working and bringing home money I have never ever been a SAHM and to be able to have the opportunity to do that is unbelievable to me... if I can do this it is also a possibility that I will be home schooling the kids for either a semester or a year.... this tooo would be something that would be cool.. however the whole patience thing is something that I need to make sure I have... lol... I am one that can run out of patience so this would make me work on it...

Please keep the kids and I in your thoughts and prayers as we really really need it right now!