And That’s….the Truth

My father in law has decided that he would like to go visit his daughter and grand kids this summer. He mentioned it to my husband and I because he needs someone to look after his dog while he is away. Because he is nearing 70 and his health isn’t the very best, I mentioned to him that he should really get some extra travel health insurance for his trip. Although he does have medicare coverage anywhere in Canada, some of his medical expenses that he may incur while traveling away may not be covered under her provinces medicare plans. So along with passports, and making different types of arrangements, this is something else that he really needs to take care of before he heads out.

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My sister-in-law invited us out to supper to celebrate her and her husband’s upcoming 25th wedding anniversary. It sounded like a fun time and they have picked one of the newer restaurants to go to so we told them we would go. She jokingly said that if she continues to eat like she did 25 years ago when they were first married, she might need to buy some weight loss pills. This is why she picked this particular restaurant. It caters to the health conscious consumers. She’s not overweight by any means and I really didn’t understand the joke, but if it gets me out of the house without the kids for a little while, then I’m game.

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Last night I took my daughter, who is 9, to see our family doctor.  She has three warts on her hands which bother her quite a bit.  They are not painful, but they are unsightly and the kids at school do tease her a bit about them.  We have tried the over the counter medication, but nothing seems to work.  So after discussing the situation with my doctor’s nurse, she informed us that if Kara wanted them to they could do a procedure to remove them.  Of course Kara said yes and I made the appointment.

When we seen the doctor he did warn us that it is quite a painful procedure and if she didn’t want to do it she didn’t have to as nine times out of ten children who have this condition usually outgrow it on their own.  But she was determined to try it.  Unfortunately, she couldn’t handle the pain so they stopped the procedure.  So she still has the same problem but now she is willing to wait it out instead of go through that kind of pain again.

But, she was a trooper for trying and I did feel really bad for her to see her go through this type of ordeal.  So for now she’s stuck with her “pests” (as she calls them) and she is patiently waiting for them to leave.  If any one here knows of a method (without pain) that has worked for them or someone they know, I would love to hear from you.

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This morning my daughter informed me that she has made a decision as far as school goes next year.  When she was explaining this to me, she had such a mature look on her face.  She has decided that she is not going to join choir again next year, but she will keep playing the violin.  It’s funny how things can change.  Before Christmas she had this same exact talk with me, except she was going to continue with choir and stop taking the violin lessons.  But she had changed her mind.  She is really starting to love violin again (now that she can play some real songs) and is starting to find choir a tad bit boring.

Who knows?  Maybe by next year she will have changed her mind again.  But until the end of this school year, she has to continue in both as she agreed to stay in both programs for a year.  She looks so mature when she is making her decisions.  I guess I’m just having a hard time believing that my “baby girl” is growing up.

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My kids are doing awesome in school. I have already been told by both their teachers that both of them will be passing this year. That means my daughter will go up to grade 5 next year and my son will go up to grade 3. So because of all their hard work this year I have decided that I am going to get them something different and unique this year for a grading present. I have decided to purchase a couple of engraved plaques with their names, grades and ages on them. They can then hang them on their bedroom doors and show everyone who comes into the house their accomplishments. Because this is March and June isn’t that far away, I’m going to have to order them pretty soon so they will have them the day they come home with their final report cards for the year.

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Honestly I don’t understand people.  Last week I set up a WP auctions ad on one of my other blogs to start selling my homemade jewelry.  Now, I got really excited and happy when I seen that I had a bid on one of my pieces.  It was a reasonable bid, so I really expected that it was a true bid.  Now I’m not so sure.  When I got up this morning and checked that blog to see how the bidding was going I had four fraudenlent bids on the account.  Now, I realize that my jewelry is worth something, but I’m pretty sure that it’s not worth over $2000.  That was the last bid.  And that bid came from the same name as the first bid so that is why I kind of think that the first bid wasn’t a true bid either.  Well I deleted all the fraudulent ones and left the first one, so I guess we will see.

But, I honestly don’t understand why people would waste their (and mine) time to place these outrageous bids.  Don’t they have anything better to do with their day??  What do they get out of it?  Obviously a person with a brain (and I think I have one) is going to realize that these are not true bidders and they are going to delete them (which I did).  Oh well, I guess it takes all kinds now doesn’t it?

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Yesterday we took the kids out for a day out to the RV show that was going on in our area. After we went to the show, we took them out for dinner and then we stopped into the auto parts store to look for some Hella lights for my car. My husband read a review on the Internet about these types of lights, and he was very impressed with what he read. And since he is a mechanic, he realizes that these are the best types of lights for any car. But we were unable to find any so I guess we will be making this purchase online. Hopefully after we receive the product, it won’t take him long to install them. I’ve only been waiting for three years for him to install my automatic car starter in my car. I’m really hoping these lights don’t take three years as well.

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Well today the weather is pretty crappy so we have decided to stay in for the day.  The kids need this day to unwind after a long week of March break and need to get all rested up to go back to school tomorrow.  So I have decided that today will be a day for crafting.  I still have some jewelry that I need to make and when I get the pieces finished I need to take pictures and upload them on to different sites.  I have been kind of slack with this part of my life lately and since we aren’t doing anything major today anyway, have decided that today would be a good day to get back into my routines.  So hopefully I will get some things created and when I have pictures up, I’ll be sure to come back in and post the pictures.

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Finally! Spring is almost here. And, what that means for me is it’s almost time to put our mobile home on the market and start our house hunting adventures. We have already started looking online at different houses and their prices in the areas where we would like to live. If it’s at all possible, we are going to try to find a home that is near our children’s current school so they will not have to change schools when we finally do make our move.

But with house hunting, also comes Mortgage hunting as well. When we bought our current home, we bought it as a rent to own so we never did have a mortgage on the property. So when we do buy our house we are going to need to get a mortgage. So I have been doing a little digging on mortgages, interest rates, and repayment structures. So far I’ve been very pleased with the information that I have uncovered. When the time comes to buy that house, I want to have my mortgage already approved so that once I discover the perfect home, I will just be able to go in and say I want it. So for right now we are doing a little house hunting off the Internet, but when we get our pre-approved mortgage, we will then start looking at actual homes that we have a hope of purchasing.

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Well the children have returned.  See, I told you I didn’t really lose them.  For the past couple of nights they have been with their grandfather.  They got to stay up late, they played a lot of computer games and they got to eat a lot of treats.  They had the time of their lives, and I don’t think my young fellow has stopped talking about it since he walked into the house.  Their grandfather, on the other hand, looked very, very tired.  But, he claims they were good and he would love to do it again real soon.  So they couldn’t have been that bad.

It was a nice treat for my husband and I as well.  Not only were the kids away, but he also didn’t get called into work so we got to spend some quality time together.  I did miss the “rugrats” and am glad that there home.  But, I honestly think this little break was everything we all needed (except for my father in law, lol).  And I’m sure that we will be able to do this again real soon.  Well, as soon as my father in law gets some well deserved sleep.

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