And That’s….the Truth

Well we are well into our way for our very last long weekend of the summer. And you all know what that means. After the long weekend has ended and Tuesday has arrived the kids are headed back to school. Yay! So this weekend is going to be very busy weekend at our house. I need to get all the kids stuff together and marked. And get them both ready for their big day. I’m sure we will find some time during this long weekend to have a little fun as well. So happy weekend to you all and I’ll see you again the first of next week.

For the past couple of years now I have been doing a lot of working from home on my computer. Any money I make from working from home adds to our household income and I can honestly say I don’t know where we would be without it. Well I have been doing good with a couple of paid to blog sites so I thought I would try my hand at some freelance article writing. I figured that since I can write blog posts then I could probably write articles as well. Well between yesterday and today I have signed up with a couple of people to write some articles for them. I have written a few and have already been paid for my work. So I guess as long as these opportunities hold up I will continue to do both. Both of these activities keep me pretty busy so for now I will not be searching for any more online activities.

For the past month or so my father in law has been cleaning out his house and has been giving me a ton of stuff. Most of the items that he has given me I will put to good use but for now it’s just laying around the house. My house is so cluttered that I’m having a hard time just walking around it. Yesterday he showed up with more stuff and I just wanted to cry. We have no room for the stuff he already has given us and for him to walk in the house with a box filled with Delta faucets, knickknacks, stuffed animals for the kids and two big cabinets I just wanted to sit on the floor and cry. But I smiled and said thank you and then told my husband that he really needs to do something with this place and the stuff or I’m going to go crazy.

If you knew me personally, you would know that one of my addictions in life is coffee. But not just any kind of coffee, it has to be a certain brand. And I don’t normally want to try any new kind of coffee. But one of my friends works uptown and she just told me about a new Starbucks that just opened up. We have never had one of these in our town before but I have heard a lot of good things about this company and their Starbucks coffee so I’m thinking I may just give these people a try. Who knows, maybe I’ll like this coffee better than what I am used to and will start spending all my coffee dollars with them.

Well since there is less than a week left in the kids summer vacation my husband and I decided to give them a little treat. The other day we took them to the massive fun park that is in our area and then after that we took them out to dinner. Well to say that they enjoyed their day would have been a serious understatement. These last two weeks have been kind of difficult on them as my husband has been working a lot of overtime so they haven’t seen their father a whole lot. So this day held a special meaning to them. They had such fun that they asked him if we could do it again in the near future. And…we have decided that we probably will. At least one more time before they head back to school.

Man I am so tired today I can hardly sit at my computer and type. Yesterday we took off to go camping and I didn’t get very much sleep. One of the trailers across from us decided they needed to have a huge party and the last time I looked at the clock was at 3:00 am and the kids had me up at 7:00 am. So you can guess what that means. Yup, very little sleep for me. I can see it’s going to be a very early night tonight. With no parties going on around here, I just may be able to get some extra sleep.

Talk to you all later.

About a year and a half ago I had to leave my full time job due to babysitter issues. Well I still have those issues, but I thought I might have had a solution to my problem. So when my ex-boss approached me last week about returning, I told her I would give it some serious thought and talk it over with my husband. After discussing this matter with my husband we both decided that I still wouldn’t be able to do this. The main reason why I am unable to return to work at this time is because my husband is on call 24/7 with his job. And if he gets a call, he has to go. So I can’t be too far away from home at any given time just in case he gets the call to go.

This was highly disappointing to me as I really would have liked to at least gone back part time. But right now it doesn’t look like I can go to work anywhere for a while. So I guess I’ll just have to happy in the knowledge that we can get by on only one salary.

Having three computers in the home can be very convenient, but it can also be quite costly as well. I just took in my laptop for a complete overhaul and upgrade and now it looks like my husband’s computer is headed in the same direction. He wants to get some additional Mac memory for his computer. He finds that over time his computer has been running a whole lot slower than it used to and thinks that a memory upgrade might just be the answer to his problem. It’s great having so many computers at our disposal, but when it’s time for upgrades it can be quite expensive.

Today is the last full day of my sister in law’s visit. First thing tomorrow morning her and her husband and son will be jumping back on the airplane and headed for home. They had a great two weeks here and are already talking about how they will be able to swing a visit again next year. They were just here saying their goodbyes to the kids and the kids were quite upset. This is their favorite aunt and uncle but because they live so far away they don’t get to see them very often. But hopefully they will make a return visit next summer or maybe we can go out to visit. You never know what can take place in a year.

Well we are on the down turn. Today and tomorrow is my husband’s last two days of vacation. Although the kids fought A LOT, the week was very good and relaxing. We didn’t do a whole lot of anything but did spend quite a bit of time visiting with my husband’s sister who arrived from out West. I have to say that I will be quite pleased when my husband goes back to work as I was unable to get anything done this past week. It will be nice to start to get back to normalcy once again. Then in three weeks the kids go back to school and then I can really go on vacation.