Monday, August 24, 2009
It's Official
I'm now officially a college "kid" lol! Well, technically, I will be when I go to my first class in about an hour lol! I'm excited and really looking forward to back to school shopping for myself! New clothes, new makeup, new hair stuff, new purse...new whatever I want lol..I can't wait!!!!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Absent
I took a vacation I guess. I kinda got into a funk and didn't feel like writing about anything. We've been so busy my head is spinning.
We've moved next door to our old house which would seem like it would be easier than moving across country or even across town but it is the biggest pain in the ass ever. I can't wait to pick up and move across country to Florida in a few months.
Despite my earlier feelings of being terrified I'm now ecstatic. I need to get away from here. My kids deserve all that I can offer them and I think Florida has a whole lot more to offer for my family than Arkansas.
What's weird is one of my biggest hangups about moving was...don't laugh......the funreals I was going to miss. I am not a morbid person and no I do not enjoy funreals at all BUT there are just some funreals I never thought I wouuldn't be at....like my 91 year old neighbor. I've known her since I was just a kid. She fell not long ago and broke her hip and she's still not walking well and probably never will again..it hit me then that I'll be gone when she dies and won't be able to say a final goodbye. That makes me sad. Then there are my two great aunts...both well into their 80's...I know I won't be back for those either. There are a few others and it makes me sad but we have a life to live in Florida.
Among the moving Jer has been gone for a week in Little Rock doing some drill time for the reserves. He goes back this tuesday for another week and then he's done 'til Sept. He's also reenlisting while he's there...not really out of want but out of need. We NEED the money...being unemployed has hurt us badly.
Lucky for us college starts the week after and we'll get our student loans which will carry us the next few months and help with our move to Florida. Plus...I have decided to go back to school. So Jer and I both start the Monday after next. I'm taking a bunch of classes he's already taken so we don't have to buy books!!! I'm going to get my teaching degree in history and hopefully will be able to coach highschool softball in a few years.
Is teaching for me? I'm not really sure but I love softball and I want to coach but more importantly, I want to be home with my kids during the summers and holidays. The way this will all work out is by the time Spencer is ready to go to school, I'll have my degree and can start working. He won't ever have to go to daycare because Jer and I are going to classes opposite hours. Fingers crossed this all works out the way we want it to.
On top of everything else, I had to get the kids registered for school last week. BUT I had none of their paperwork. So I had to go on a search for shot records, go to the social security office to have new cards made for all of us ( I think the kids buried our old ones in the back yard grrrr) and basically run around like a chicken with my head cut off.
My house went all to hell last week so I am busy cleaning it today! I start watching a new baby tomorrow for a friend. We need the money and I'm giving her a great deal so it works out for all of us.
And soccer starts in 2 weeks. And like an idiot I signed up to coach again. What was I thinking???? I sign up to coach every season so I can get my kids pictures half off at picture time lol. Oh well, this will be the last season I coach for sure but I am totally looking forward to watching the kids play again. Get ready for lots of pics and videos!
Well for now I'm outta here....gotta go clean clean clean!!!!!
We've moved next door to our old house which would seem like it would be easier than moving across country or even across town but it is the biggest pain in the ass ever. I can't wait to pick up and move across country to Florida in a few months.
Despite my earlier feelings of being terrified I'm now ecstatic. I need to get away from here. My kids deserve all that I can offer them and I think Florida has a whole lot more to offer for my family than Arkansas.
What's weird is one of my biggest hangups about moving was...don't laugh......the funreals I was going to miss. I am not a morbid person and no I do not enjoy funreals at all BUT there are just some funreals I never thought I wouuldn't be at....like my 91 year old neighbor. I've known her since I was just a kid. She fell not long ago and broke her hip and she's still not walking well and probably never will again..it hit me then that I'll be gone when she dies and won't be able to say a final goodbye. That makes me sad. Then there are my two great aunts...both well into their 80's...I know I won't be back for those either. There are a few others and it makes me sad but we have a life to live in Florida.
Among the moving Jer has been gone for a week in Little Rock doing some drill time for the reserves. He goes back this tuesday for another week and then he's done 'til Sept. He's also reenlisting while he's there...not really out of want but out of need. We NEED the money...being unemployed has hurt us badly.
Lucky for us college starts the week after and we'll get our student loans which will carry us the next few months and help with our move to Florida. Plus...I have decided to go back to school. So Jer and I both start the Monday after next. I'm taking a bunch of classes he's already taken so we don't have to buy books!!! I'm going to get my teaching degree in history and hopefully will be able to coach highschool softball in a few years.
Is teaching for me? I'm not really sure but I love softball and I want to coach but more importantly, I want to be home with my kids during the summers and holidays. The way this will all work out is by the time Spencer is ready to go to school, I'll have my degree and can start working. He won't ever have to go to daycare because Jer and I are going to classes opposite hours. Fingers crossed this all works out the way we want it to.
On top of everything else, I had to get the kids registered for school last week. BUT I had none of their paperwork. So I had to go on a search for shot records, go to the social security office to have new cards made for all of us ( I think the kids buried our old ones in the back yard grrrr) and basically run around like a chicken with my head cut off.
My house went all to hell last week so I am busy cleaning it today! I start watching a new baby tomorrow for a friend. We need the money and I'm giving her a great deal so it works out for all of us.
And soccer starts in 2 weeks. And like an idiot I signed up to coach again. What was I thinking???? I sign up to coach every season so I can get my kids pictures half off at picture time lol. Oh well, this will be the last season I coach for sure but I am totally looking forward to watching the kids play again. Get ready for lots of pics and videos!
Well for now I'm outta here....gotta go clean clean clean!!!!!
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