A Cool Giveaway!

The gals over at Hillbilly Chicks is giving away an awesome cookbook by Gooseberry Patch. Check out their site and sign up for the giveaway here.

Settling In

I am pretty happy in our new place. It's so quite and just the perfect size for my daughter and I. My (almost) 17 yo son pretty much stays with his brother in our hometown (about 20 minutes away). I can say about 75% of the boxes are put away and organized... but we still have some work to do.



The topic of discuss in these here parts (Iowa) is FLOODING. I am in no danger whatsoever but a few of my friends have had some issues.... one it looks like an earthquake hit her backyard - half her yard sank about 5 feet. The other friend has a major river that is rising and is about 2 houses away from his.

On the Move AGAIN

So I am moving. Again. I've been in our beautiful, wonderful townhome a year. However my marriage just couldn't make it. So in lieu of not being able to afford this place myself, my daughter and I are moving. Again. (Oh, I said that already...) We have a pool here, huge back yard that's like a park, 2 play grounds and a sand volley ball court and kids for my daughter to play with. And we are moving to another, smaller townhome...which I wanted it to be smaller, the place we are in is way to big for just her and I, so that's good, but we have no amenities, it's in a beautiful townhome community and I'm excited for the house itself, just not leaving all the "stuff" this one has. I am rambling and not forming coherent sentences at all.

So I will end with, I want to marry Neil from SYTYCD, yes he's half my age and I could probably technically be his mother, but I don't care, I love him. ROAR.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day everyone! Hope all you mom's are having a splendid day. I had a great weekend being with all my kiddos. Today I am enjoying some quiet ME time, which I savor. :) Yesterday spent almost all day with my 20 year old son, his girlfriend, my 16 year old son and my 12 year old daughter. Today my daughter is shopping with her friend and both of my sons went back to my oldest son's apartment. This evening my daughter and my 16 yo will be home and we will have a low key evening, me just enjoying them!

However you decide to celebrate, I hope it is a great one!

Happy New Year (30 days late)

I am trying to learn how to make a post from my phone! I live under a rock so its my first attempt :).

I've been busy with work and trying to keep whatever sanity I have intact. Not an easy task let me tell you!

Plus I've been buried underneath about 3 feet of snow since the first of December. So anything we do we have to take that into consideration as well.

Now that I've figured out how to post from my phone I might post more than once every 3 months!

Grandparents

My grandparents are moving back to our area today. To say I am excited is an extreme understatement. I love my grandparents sooo much and am very thankful that at almost 40 I still have both of them. They are 86 and 85 and still live very much independently. They moved one state away to be closer to my uncle and to live a little more south for easier weather. This was 8 years ago. Their daughter, my mom, myself, and my two sisters and all of our families are up here. They decided that they wanted to spend as much time with us as they could and they also wanted to down size. So they are moving to a senior apartment complex in my hometown and I could not be more excited. They will be rolling into town tomorrow afternoon and we will spend all day moving them in and getting them set up. It has been raining the last two days, so I hope the skies clear. If not, it would still be worth it!

It's the little things...

Is it sad when you think you have accomplished *something* when you actually take a shower AND shave your LEGS? That's how I feel today, folks. Whew, don't have to think about that again for awhile!