Empty Promises

Seems as if I mentioned I was going to be better about blogging. Guess I was a big-o-fat liar on that one. I can barely remember to brush my teeth most of the time these days let alone remember to blog about all the little things.

We have been busy little bees around the ol' bug shack. The lovely bug shack that we are hoping won't be ours much longer. There is a pretty,flashy, sparkling sign in the front yard trying to tempt the fates that be to stop in and have a look around the joint. We put money down on a new build so, as much as we would like to think we can make 2 payments we can't, we must part ways with the our humble little home.

I have been overwhelmed with making sure that every bed is made, every toilet flushed, every dirty spoon is in the dishwasher before we run out the door in the mornings. It is lovely to come home to a clean house every night don't get me wrong, but man there are days that I am almost at the point of passing out worrying if I picked my dirty underwear up off the bathroom floor.

School will be out soon so that will allow for a few extra minutes to perform previous mentioned tasks. Speaking of school being out, we will be pulling the girl out early the last day to race to the airport to attend a family reunion. We will come home late Sunday night leaving our most precious possession behind until I return for a wedding 3 weeks later. I had to make an appointment this morning to go over some new house stuff and I was trying to figure out where the girl would go while we went. No worries she will be living the good life hanging out in Podunk still. I think just about the time I get used to being "kid free" again, it will be time for her to come home.

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This how they ended a very busy day..Magoo being her ever diligent shadow, I was out front so she felt the need to watch the Hubs.
Hubs climbed up into the attic and look what he found...
So is funnier that we saved these or that she still fits?
I thought we had rid ourselves of all things baby a long time ago. I wonder what else we will find!

Movin On Up

Well its happened. We have outgrown our humble beginnings. We thought it would have happened sooner, and we may have just chosen to ignore the fact that we were splitting at the seams, rather than later. We are beginning to scratch our heads and wonder where we go from here.


First it seems, we must part ways with Casa de Bug. She has been a happy little home over the past 8 years, but for some strange reason we can not afford to have two house payments. I will be very sad to pack up our junk and leave her behind. I am sure that she will make another family just as happy as she made us.

Houses in our neck of the woods, as I hear it to be the same most places, aren't selling very quickly. With that in mind, our plan is to spiff up the place, and put her on the market. We are just concerned that we will find something we love more than her, she will have her feelings hurt and refuse to sell and we will be disappointed. We do have a "Just In Case" plan in place, on the off chance she does sell right away (When we bought the Bug Shack, I sat at the end of our street with our realtor and watched them put the For Sale sign in the yard and made an offer before anyone else had seen the house). I wonder if we jinxed ourselves trying to be the smart ones. We will see...

Second? We have to find a new place that we will all be happy in. When we bought Casa de Bug we had very little money and were just ready to get our of our crappy apartment. Not that we settled for what we have now, but we really didn't have high expectations. Now? We want a new house that we can pick and choose the things we really want. Of course we both seem to know what we want, and as you may have guessed we don't both want the same things. We have agreed that we will have to "give and get" a little but we are both very stubborn and that may be easier said than done. Why should he care what kitchen cabinets I pick out if he will be spending much of his time in his 3 car garage.

I do think that we may have found a house that we can all agree on. It has meet almost all of our preset standards. My biggest thing was a decent sized bedroom for the girl. As she pointed out last night at dinner she will be going to college in 7 years, but it will be a much more enjoyable 7 years for all of us if she has some room to grow. Hubs was trying for Daddy of the Year by insisting she also have her own large, preferably a walk in, closet. I was indifferent to a one or two story but wanted the laundry room on which ever floor the bedrooms were on. We saw so many houses where you would have had to carry your clothes down stairs and through the kitchen to the washer and dryer. No thanks. The house we are seriously considering is a 2 story with the master bedroom downstairs, the 5 other bedrooms upstairs, and the laundry downstairs. (What we are going to do with 4 empty bedrooms I don't really know). I wasn't to keen on the idea at first but then Hubs pointed out we would not have to carry our dirty duds up and down the stairs, it would only be the girl doing the climbing with the laundry basket. And because I am always looking for one more reason to say "Because I said so", I caved on that point.

The one thing that the hubs is sticking on is he wants a huge lot. The lots that are available now are decent sized but just not quite what he wants. They will be releasing more lots in the next couple of weeks, but the houses will have a price increase right before they open up the new lots. So, did I whine and get him to give in and quite possibly never hear the end of it, or do we wait for the larger lot and the larger price tag?

I am going to call our realtor next week and make an appointment with him to come over and tell us what he thinks needs to be done before we throw caution to the wind and put the house on the market.

I guess we will see what happens.

Figures

We have been seriously talking about relocating Casa De Bug as we seem to be outgrowing our humble little shack. We decided that we should start getting rid of stuff we no longer, want, need or use. (This is extremely difficult for moi as I am quite the packrat). Being the nice person that I am I decide I would start my quest for de-cluttering with the girls room and her playroom / computer room. There are 10! Yes, 10 big garbage bags full of clothes in the garage to be donated / given away/ sold at a yard sale type thing. After I tackled her dresser and closet I was feeling especially brave and decided I was going in the for the kill and cleaning out her desk. The desk has 9 drawers which were all packed full of absolute crap. I threw away every marker, pen and little scrap of paper. I also threw away every last crayon I could find. I decided buying a new box would just be easier. Famous last words.

Guess who needed crayons tonight to do her homework? Please excuse me now while I run to the store and eat a little crow.

Christmas Eve

Just in case you were looking for that last minute gift, I just left the Target by my house and there were hardly any people in the store! I even found everything I was loooking for!

I still have about 30 things to wrap and now I just need to figure out when I can do it without the girl seeing me. We are going to Midnight Mass so I am thinking around 2:00 am will have to do. I think I should have bought more tape while I was at the store.

All I Want For Christmas...

Is for my laundry to be done! No really, we are knee deep in dirty socks and damp towels around the bug shack. See the ol' washing machine has decided that it doesn't have to rinse or drain on the first, or second or third, cycle for that matter for the last 2 weeks or so.

I tried everything I could think of to take mercy on the big box that we depend so much on and don't realize just how much we need it until its not working. I tried switching to liquid soap instead of powder, washing everything on the same cycle, extra small loads (cause this helps get it done). Nothing was working.

We were ready to just go out and buy a new washer. (It being Christmas time and all we have all kinds of extra money laying around you know). Then hubs decided to try and take the washer apart and see if it was something he could fix himself. Turns out that yes indeed, he could fix the beast!! I never thought I would be happy to send $100 on something that looks like some funky happy meal toy.

At last report the washer was rinsing and draining like a charm. Now if I could just put a call into Santa and ask him to send a little elf over to help me get caught I would be a happy girl!

Second Verse Same As The First

I just finished a post that has taken me almost all day to write. Not because it was well written or full of charm. Its these darn customers who want help and don't understand the importance of said blogging....

So, we will try again. The weekend away was a great time had by all. Well everyone who was away that is. The girl was sick all weekend and hubs spent several hours cleaning up puke late into the night and into the wee hours of the morning. Why is it when they get sick its always the middle of the night??

I called Saturday morning to check on the happenings at Casa de Bug and worried the rest of the time about the girl. See, she is just a little whipper snapper of a thing and really can't afford to be sick in a way that causes her not to eat. Last month we hit the mile stone of 70 pounds! Yes, 70 pounds. Her doctor and I gave each other a high five and did a little happy dance. My guess is she probably lost 2-3 pounds while she was sick. Hopefully all the holiday goodies will help gain some of the weight back. I wish I had the same problem :).

One of Those Days

Today is one of those days where there just isn't quite enough time to get it all done. The hubs is on vacation all this week so you would think that would help. For some reason it has done nothing but hinder the well organized schedule we usually run on. It is nice that he is home so he can get some of things done that can usually only be done Monday-Friday in the 8 - 5 span, you know when most people are working!

Anyway back to today. I *thought* Katers had a dentist appointment this afternoon, because I *thought* I could just remember rather than write it down, turns out her appointment is tomorrow. (I am glad they called to confirm). This puts a great big monkey wrench in today and tomorrow. I have a meeting tonight, Hubs has to be on the other side of town and neither situation allows for a cute little tag along. (Good thing Grandma isn't doing anything tonight and can come over and hang with the girl until one of us can get home). Because I *thought* the dentist was today I scheduled the guys to come out tomorrow and evict our unwanted house guest. Hopefully they will be done in time for Hubs to run to school, pick the girl up early, run all the way back up by the house to get to the dentist on time.

On the up side if I get hungry at my meeting tonight I dropped strawberry jelly all down the front of my shirt this morning so that is there if I need it. GAW!!!

Oh No

We have a small issue here at Casa de Bug. The bug shack? Has bugs! Not just any bugs at that. We got us some termites. What. A. Bummer. Not a cheap bummer at that either. We may be on the PB and J diet next week, and just maybe the week after that as well!