Dearly departed....

Well, we are no longer residents of Leavenworth,  KS.   After being on the road for a mere 15 minutes,  Tobbie states "this is taking too long, I'm ready to be in Georgia,  this is going to be very long ride ". Sweet baby Jesus help me!  And we've been on the road only 3 1/2 hours .....12 1/2 more to go......

I want to punch someone..........

OMG! I haven't had this much time on my hands in.... I don't know how long. So, I have spent majority of my day effing around on the computer while I sit on my fat ass and watch the slooooowest truck loaders on earth pack all our household goods (and my neighbor has had the kids for majority of the day.). These loaders have been here for almost 9 hours and still have a shit ton more to do. Ugh...I want to punch someone.

Moving again & I'm a slacker of all kinds

I noticed it has been six looooong months since I blogged. I've been so busy busy busy!
Our year long tour here in Leavenworth, Kansas will come to an end in less than two days. It's been such a nice place to live, minus the blizzard, negative temperatures and tornadoes and the freaking wind! I think I will mostly miss riding by the prison several times a week and explaining to my child that is where bad children go when they don't mind their mommy's! Nah, I'm just kidding, a little.
Leavenworth has been an adjustment year for our family too. We started this year off with Michael returning from a year long deployment to Iraq. We were able to officially begin our life as a family of five (Darcy was born while he was away) and it's the first time in our relationship that Michael and I have ever spent a solid year together without him deploying or going on TDY somewhere.

I'm going to miss this place and all the wonderful friends we have made, but I'm ready to get on with it and go to the beach, visit friends and family in Georgia and make the cross country journey with three kids in tow to the Pacific Northwest!

The Griswold's

We made it home yesterday from our journey to Georgia over the holidays. It took two whole days, but we made it. We discovered when we got home that something moved in to our home while we were away....
Andy the squirrel moved in to the garage. He must have slipped in while Michael was packing up his truck to leave. He had it made because in my craft bin, I had some reindeer food in little baggies that didn't sell and Michael had put our tree in the garage so the needles wouldn't fall off in the house and it even still had water in the bottom. So Andy had food, shelter and water. Also, do you know what happens when a squirrel eats oatmeal, bird seed and glitter mixed together? It poops glitter. I would take a photo of all the effing glitter poop, but it was too gross to look at. And to top it all off, the litter effer didn't want to leave the garage. It took over an hour to get him out. We officially feel like the Griswold's!

On the road again...

Ahh, today we make the dreaded long arse drive back home. Fun times I'd say. Our travels consist of 4 LARGE, very LARGE contico boxes full of toys (I'll post a pic later), three children (preschool, toddler and infant stages), two dogs (one 9 years old and one 50# puppy)and two exhausted and ready to be home parents. Not all in one vehicle of course. We each drove seperately. YAY me! Please pray we make it there still married.

babies=$$$

FYI: BABIES/CHILDREN COST MONEY!!!!

Go ahead and think I am a bitch, it's okay, lots of other people think I am and after this post you probably will too. But let's be real, having children cost money. With that said, how do you feel about families on government assistance? I am all for the services that are out there for the needy. But what I cannot stand are the lazy ass individuals that are out there milking the system for all it's worth.

I have read about/ seen many a families where both parents are in school and don't work or only one parent works part-time and they have one child and decide to have another. Now, I know it isn't any of my beeswax how other families work, but I find it totally irresponsible how a family like this operates. This family of three, soon to be four receives all kinds of assistance and can't pay their bills. Why on earth would you intentially bring another child into this world when you can't hardly afford the one you have or pay your bills or afford to put food on the table? It blows me away.

Once upon a time I felt sorry for people like this, but not anymore. My husband works his arse off to provide for our family. We but our chops off budgeting and saving for emergencies and our future. We struggle, but we make it work. We also know that our wallets (or our minds for that matter) cannot handle a fourth child.

Ok, I am done. I am just sick and tired of seeing people take advantage of the system.

December from H E double hockey sticks!

Oh my word. This December has been a month from hell. I mean pure hell for my small family of 5. To start things off, my beloved younger passed away, on my birthday. Two days later, my husbands grandmother passed away. The night before my cousins services, the baby ended up in the hospital after testing positive for RSV and was there for three nights with signs of pneumonia. Then, Christmas Eve, I fell down the stairs of my in-laws deck and broke a toe. Then I didn't hear my parents knocking on the door Christmas morning (they were coming to watch Santa's reveal). All this and we still haven't even made our trek back to Kansas. I hope and pray for a peaceful 2011.