DIAL UP DRAMA! WELL I HAVE DECIDED TO GO OFFLINE FOR A WHILE....ABOUT 4 MONTHS TO BE EXACT. I ONLY HAVE ACCESS TO DIAL UP ONCE EVERY FEW WEEKS AND HONESTLY, BUT THE TIME I CHECK MY EMAIL IT HAS ALREADY TAKEN ME OVER AN HOUR. IT IS TOO FRUSTRATING TO CONTINUE DOING THIS. I WILL BE GETTING HUGHES NET SATTELITE BUT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT UNTIL WE BUY OUR HOME. AND THAT WILL BE AROUND THE END OF THE YEAR. SO I AM SORRY FOR ANY DISSAPOINTMENT. I WILL BE BACK ON WITH A VENGEANCE TO CATCH EVERYONE UP WHEN I DO. THANKS FOR ALL OF THE SUPPORT. SEE YOU SOON.

Try Something New Tuesday

Since I have been in my new home state I have been trying to be advebturous. I have fiunally tried Craw FIsh. I have yet to eat more than just the tail though. My husband is trying to get me to suck out the body of the Craw Fish and you know, I just can't bring myself to do it. Maybe later. LOL I also tried to shoot a deer rifle. It is a 243 and man was it GREAT! SO MUCH power. I seen to be a great shot also. I beat my father in law in target shooting with his own gun! That wzs a gas. I am finding it hard not to adapt to heir way of talking here. U&s Califonians seem to talk funny and unless I use some of their phrases they seem to ask '"WHAT?" a lot so I get tired of repeating myself. LOL I say give it about 6 months and I will be fully REDNECK.
We are getting our rented camp house ready to move in. There were some problems with the flooring and mold so we have to do come remodeling before we can move it. That will give me sometrhing to blog about for my project day. Look for it soon. I am looking into sattelite internet, this dial up stuff has to go. Iam finding it difficult to view other people's blogs and most web pages. So for those of you whom I visit, please be patient, I will come visit again soon.

Made it Safe and Sound.....

Well we made it to our final destination safe and sound with only one set back. Our trailer blew a tire about 50 miles out of Kingman Arizona. We were on the side of the road for 4 hours waiting for a flat bed tow truck. It was SOOO hot! But the baby was bathed in his car seat and everything was okay after that. There are SO many mosquitos out here, my hubby got the worst of it. He has bites all over his body. It looks like he has some kind of skin disease. The only drag of being out here is DIAl UP! It is hard going from CABLE to Dial up.
We also have more good news, We are expecting anpther baby. I am due March 3. I am going to keep this short today but I will get on schedule from tomorrow.

Stop, Think, And LISTEN

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Blogging schedule is in the works.....

So I Have noticed that a lot of the people who blog regularly have schedules. SO I have decided to jump on the bandwagon and set up a schedule also. I can tend to get a bit whiny and loose sight of the positive side of life, I am sorry it tends to be my downfall and I am working on it daily. LOL So I thought if I made a schedule and stuck to it, it will remind me about the positive side of life and bring joy to it. So here is goes, give me some feed back and let me know if it sounds good. Just remember that this will not start until my computer is up and running and we are settled in to Louisiana. I have not made it there yet. We leave Monday the 18 of June.

Mile Walk Monday- I love to walk so I am going to make it a point to walk at least a mile on Mondays and take note of the things we did on our walk and the stuff we saw, and the responses my son had to the different atmosphere.

Try Something New Tuesdays- I tend to be a the kind of person who orders the SAME thing from restaurants. Or I tend to buy the SAME kinds of clothes over and over. So this day will be dedicated to trying something new. Whether it be a new food or a new routine. I need to break out of the box and embrace the variety of life for once.

Wise Words Wednesday- This day will be dedicated to the wise things I have heard from elders as I have grown up or new words of wisdom I have yet to hear.

Trucks and Such Thursdays- This day will be dedicated to our projects, for example, our 1970 Ford pick up that we plan to fix up. Or the making of a house a home.

Funny Friday- This day will be dedicated to all of the funny photos I take of my husband and our son. There may or may not be a story behind the photo. This will be a shot blog day.

Solitude Saturday- This will be the day that I set aside some ME time and whether I take a walk or crochet or just reflect on my life path, this will be all about ME.

Sacred Sunday- This day will be about the family time we spend together. Pictures and stories about outings to the zoo or just time we spend together. My husband works a LOT so every minute we spend together is sacred to us.

Well I hope that I can stick to the format. I may change it up a bit from time to time but if you have any feed back, please let me know, I would love to hear it.

Splash, Splash, dog water anyone?

Sean and I went to my family's house for the weekend to drop off somethings and pick up my step dad's trailer (we are going to buy it from him instead of renting one). We had a wonderful time. Boober had to stay in the play pen most of the time though. Here's why...
My parents have LOTS of dogs. Too many if you ask me. They started out with a German Shepard, then added 2 yorkies. They bred the female and she had 3 puppies. The sold one of the puppies and kept the remaining 2. They adopted an older yorkie that was abused and my brother's girlfriend moved in with her Pomeranian. The Pomeranian got my step mom's dog pregnant again and she just had 3 more puppies. So that is a total of c'mon, do the math....10 dogs. So they have little yorkies running around all over the place, and they have the Pomeranian , which is the dominant male, going around and lifting his leg on everything. But that is not even why our son had to stay in the playpen. Every time I let him out, he would beeline straight for the water dish. SPLASH SPLASH....all over the floor and all over him. They have wood floors too. LOL it was so funny. It was quite a mess. I tried to take pictures but the floor and lighting was too dark it didn't show up what he was doing. He did pretty well confined to the play pen for the remainder of the weekend. I think he knew he did something he wasn't supposed to do, he didn't even cry, it was more of a sigh, when he was put back in the pen. LOL I am going to have my hands full.

The calm after the storm......

I have finally gotten over my hurt feelings and my frustrations. Sometimes it takes me spitting it all out on paper to be able to let it all go. Our move coming up on us QUICKLY and I was just told today that my hubby will have the ENTIRE holiday weekend off. YEA! He has worked 2 months straight, 12-15 hour days so we will have plenty of money for this move. Our son is beginning to be less fussy since his ear infections are in check and he has stopped teething for a brief moment. I have been able to just take a deep breath and exhale.
I am finally able to sit down for a few minutes and enjoy what life has to offer. Sometimes I get caught up in the every day hustle bustle of life, and the normal hum drum of everyday repeating itself over and over again. I was given some good advice from someone, "Don't worry, you will be gone soon and it is off to making new friends."
That couldn't have been more true than the sky being blue. That person was SOOO right. The light FINALLY went on in the Attic and everything rolled right off my shoulders and into the gutter where it belongs. What do I have to worry about? I have a wonderful husband, and and AMAZING son. When you strip everything else away, at the end of the day, that is all that matters. Everything else is trivial compared to that.
Which brings me to some great news for us. After months of discussion, we have decided that now is the time to start trying for another baby. He is 28 and I am 27. We both really want to be able to do the little league and the boy scouts and all of the other stuff before we get too geriatric. LOL I know we aren't even thirty yet but we are unsure of how many children we want and I seem to have pregnancies that are almost high risk due to hypertension. So, we are just going to go for it. If we are not pregnant by the time I am 30, then we will not have any more children. I say it like that because we are not able to conceive the way "normal" people do.
My husband had a vasectomy when he was 22 and we met when he was 24 and I was 23. Neither of us wanted any more children when we met. Myself, having a son who lives with his father and step mother, and Sean, having a son (the same age as mine) who recently went to live with his mother, and a daughter which he was not able to see for circumstances beyond his control. Well, after getting married and being married for a year, we felt like something was missing. We had changed our minds and wanted to raise children together. We tried artificial insemination which was so expensive and required LOTS of planning. Blood work and ovulation monitoring and precise timing. We chose a donor and payed LOTS of money for the procedure and it did not take. VERY HEART BREAKING. We tried one more time and when that didn't take, we decided to give it a rest for a while. A year later we tried again and still the same result. I went to so many doctor appointments to find out what the problem was, the Dr said there was absolutely NO problem with me, there was no explanation on why i was not getting pregnant. We looked into invetro and that was at LEAST 13,000. We looked into Vasectomy reversal. Anywhere from 5,500 to 13,000. Expensive and also VERY painful for Sean. They could extract from him and artificially inseminate, but again, it was too painful for him and too expensive, and you run the chance of it not taking and you are left holding the bag. I had done LOTS of research online about infertility and artificial insemination. I had contacted banks and asked a LOT of question, and I had read up on EVERYTHING I could about the human reproductive system. So in November of 2005, after just letting the subject be for several months, I approached Sean with trying ONE MORE TIME. Only this time, we weren't going to do the blood work or the fertility drugs, or all of the over planning, we were just going to set the date and time and not worry about it any further. Well 2 weeks from then we tried again with the attitude of well, it is worth one more shot. A week later, I woke up to go to work and just KNEW without a doubt that I was pregnant. I felt different. So I was able to take a test a week later and sure enough, WE WERE PREGNANT.
I have to tell you, unless you have experienced it yourself, the inability to have children "naturally" is so hard. But, the feeling of bliss you feel after accomplishing the goal, is a thousand times more rewarding. Our son has brought so much joy to our lives. I grew up and only child. I had siblings but they did not live with me and they were quite a bit younger than myself and growing up an only child is SO lonely. There is such a big void being an only child. Sean grew up with 2 brothers and he said is was such a great experience that he really wants our son to have at least one sibling, so what a better time than now. No over planning or stressing and over analyzing.
So June 2ND through the 6Th is our window of opportunity and by the time we are driving to our new home, we will know if it took or not. I will be sure to post the result. I kind of like this blogging thing. I have read quite a few blogging pages and you know it is great to read other people's feelings and point of views. I have learned a few valuable lessons from others and I decided that my experiences may just help someone else. You never know, who may be reading.