And That’s….the Truth

Well since we have plans to move, I have started looking for shipping boxes to start packing up all our stuff. I find shipping boxes are a lot better and sturdier than normal cardboard boxes. And since I don’t know exactly how long all our stuff will be in these boxes, I wanted to make sure that they are packed in the very best containers that they can be. Although this is a lot of work for me (I do all my packing when the kids are at school and my husband is at work), I am so excited to be finally moving, that I don’t mind the extra work.

When my youngest son gets home from school today, he is going to be so…mad at me.   Well he will be a little pleased until he kicks into what I’ve been up to today.  Today was the day I decided to clean out his room.  I threw out an entire  garbage bag of old and broken toys.  Now to him they are treasures, but to me, they were junk.  He will be pleased that I cleaned his room (this means that he doesn’t have to), but he will be annoyed with the amount of stuff that he is now missing.  Oh well, I guess he should have cleaned it himself if he wanted to keep everything.

Today was his day and tomorrow is his sister’s.  So tomorrow I could quite possibly have another child annoyed with me. lol

Last night my youngest son was playing on the computer and you could tell that he was getting pretty frustrated. He was trying to download a game off the Internet, but because the computer memory on this computer is so bad, he wasn’t able to download the game he wanted to play. Kid’s games don’t normally take a lot of memory, so the memory on this computer must be really bad. So I’m thinking that we really need to upgrade the memory. I don’t think it will require a lot of upgrades, but after seeing his frustration last night, I know we need to do something.

Yesterday both of the kids brought home a permission slip to go on a field trip with their classes.  The funny thing about this was that although Daniel is in grade 2 and Kara is in grade 4, they are both going on the same field trip on the same day.  Both of their slips were requesting parent drivers.  So I filled them out and said that I would drive one child from one class and the other child from the other class.  This worked out great for me as now I only have to take one trip with both children.  What’s the chances of that ever happening again??  It’s kind of like a family outing now isn’t it??

So I was tagged by Jenn to do this meme about 10 things you may not know about me. Well here we go. I hope you find these little items about me interesting or even amusing.

1. While I was growing up, I never wanted to have kids (I wouldn’t even babysit), and now I have three.

2. I have been married three times (third times the charm).

3. I have held a lot of jobs over the years, but the most memorable one would have been catching chickens.

4. Although I’m not quite 40, I am grayer than my grandmother (she’s 86) and have been going gray since I was 16.

5. I have a marketing diploma from the community college but never worked in that field as I discovered that I hated it.

6. Although I am a girl, I don’t own a dress, slip or shoes.

7. I don’t wear make-up, but own a ton of it.

8. I just got my driver’s license the year I turned 35.

9. In high school I failed home ec three times, but my favorite hobby today is creating crafts.

10. And…although you all know me as Kim, that’s not my name. My first name is….

Now I get to tag five people. If you want to do the meme that’s great, just make sure you leave me a comment here so I can go find out all about you. The five people I’m tagging are Carrie, Tammy, Lynne, Ellen, and Sting.

Have fun guys!!

Wow! I can’t believe how fast time flies when your Entrecarding. It’s been two weeks since my last post about my top ten Entrecarders. So you know what that means. It’s time for me to say “Thank You!!” once again for all your continued visits and loyal drops. So, if your on the list,…Thank you!! And, if your not but would like to be in two weeks time, you know the drill. All you need to do is drop.

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Thanks guys! I really do appreciate your visits.

For the past year my husband and I have been discussing purchasing a “cheap” truck.  We had decided to sell my car (it’s the least expensive of the two) and take that money with a little extra and buy the truck.  So you can imagine my complete surprise when I got home from taking my daughter to her fiddle-a-thon (another post) and he informed me that him and my son purchased a van.  He had decided to trade in his car for this van.  Although I don’t think we need a van (8 passenger), it’s something he wants so what the heck.

I will still have my car so I can still go where I need to.  I don’t drive his car any way, so not driving this newer vehicle won’t bother me in the least.  But, I did want a truck and I thought we were getting a truck.  See what happens when I leave him home on his own for four hours. lol

Last night when my husband got home from work he was so excited. He was telling me about a house that isn’t on the market yet, but he found out about it and if everything he heard was true, it would be the perfect house for us. So my husband and I and the kids piled in the car to go look at this house. I have to say that I was highly impressed with the layout of the house, the great condition it was in and the huge back yard. The only thing I wasn’t impressed with was the bath lift, but I figured that if we end up purchasing the home, we can always remove this. So my husband is going today to talk to our mortgage broker and see if we can get pre-qualified for a mortgage. If we can then we will probably put an offer in on this house.

In less than a month I will be turning 40. And I have to say that I can’t ever remember in my life time people having so many addiction problems and communities needing so many drug rehabs as we need now. It seems like every time you hear the news or pick up a newspaper someone has done something quite serious because of drug addictions. This really scares me. I have two small children that I am trying to bring up right and with so many temptations out there now, I honestly get frightened thinking about what troubles they could find themselves in. I realize that we need all these drug rehab centers, but sometimes I do sit and wonder how many more we will end up needing in the near future.

Yesterday after school I took my daughter around the neighborhood to get some pledges for her upcoming fiddle-a-thon that will take place this Saturday.  We only ended up going to three houses as most of the people we know weren’t home.  And, the other people in the neighborhood don’t know Kara so I didn’t want to ask them to pledge her.  But she did good.  The three houses that we did go to, gave her pledges.  Between this and family members, she did quite well for her first time asking for pledges.  Now on Saturday she needs to play for 200 minutes to earn these pledges.  But she is having fun with the entire experience and that’s the main thing.