Remember Me?

Wow, has it really been two weeks since my last post? Well, lots has been going on around here. Here it is in list form, um, sort of.



1. We're moving.....again. I know we just moved. And we're doing it again. This January Clayton's company went through a big restructuring of the company and Clayton is no longer the manager of the Dallas North team. He is now the manager of the East TX team or something like that. Anyway, he went from a sa-weet 45-mile radius territory to I don't even know how many hours span of distance territory including all of east Texas all the way up to Texarkana pretty much down to Shreveport and down to some other places I've never heard of (Lufkin maybe?) Anyway, that's way too much driving for me. And so we are moving to Tyler, TX which is in the middle of the geography so he can be home for supper before 7 pm every night. Plus his company offered us a relocation package and you're just pretty much stupid if you don't take those when they're offered to you. They take care of everything, the movers, the closing costs, etc. It's a nice deal.



2. So when you have to move you have to sell your house. Okay.....if you've been in my house then you know it still looks like we just moved in yesterday, bare walls and all. Well, I decided instead of dragging pictures up to the attic I'd get off my lazy tail and hang some on the walls. I must say, I should have done it a long time ago. Here's my living room. Can you see that thing by the couch? That's a lamp! Finally got one and plugged it in so it didn't feel like we were in the waiting room of the health department.



And I read somewhere you should hang a mirror across from the windows to make the room "feel bigger".....so I did. I don't know that it really made the room feel any bigger but at least the mirror is off my dining room floor.

In my breakfast room I've had this group of four pictures that Mike Logan took of us over the years. They didn't really look right in there and I've been meaning to hang this picture where they were for almost a year. I finally did it last week.

And I hung this in the entry way across from the table and mirror ensemble.

And the pics that were in my breakfast room are hanging in the hallway to our bedroom and they look great there!

They just invite you right on into the master bedroom.
3. We had Spring Break last week. We went to visit both sets of grandparents. We headed to Tupelo and spent the weekend and Amy, Steve and the kids came down and spent the weekend too. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins and sleeping in the camper. It was nasty cold weather but they played anyway. The only pictures I took the whole week were some of the girls swinging. We headed to my parents and spent the week in Dothan. We had a great visit, even though we had nasty weather there too. We got to visit with several of my aunts and cousins that we don't get to see very often and had the best time. And I got to do some shopping with my friend Meredith and that is always a treat. We headed back to Tupelo for the weekend b/c this week is the spring consignment event and I'm selling some of the girls clothes and had to drop them off on Sunday. We wanted to drop by our old sunday school class but we had to leave as soon as I dropped off the clothes in order to make it home before midnight. Clayton and I did have a date Saturday night and went to the mall and ran into Jim and Candise at Gap. Candise took our picture with her phone. You can barely see it on here.

That's her newest addition, Carrie Ann......soooooo cute! I would say it made me want another baby but then I quickly thought about Candise being up all night that night and the thought very quickly faded.

4. When selling your house you have to make sure it is spotless so I busted my tail to get it spic n span, and ran out of it for the week so it would be in pristine shape for buyers. Guess it paid off b/c we got a contract on our house today! So unless something catastrophic happens we sold our house, yeah!!!!! Now we have to find one to live in come June!

5. Just some random FYI: don't let your husband turn on the disposal on the sink while your hand is down in it. It hurts real real bad and has the tendency to tear off your fingernail if it hits it just right.

6. And also, I cooked supper tonight...if sending your husband to KFC and opening a can of baked beans, a can of English peas, cooking a box of easy mac and putting some sister shubert's yeast rolls in the oven counts as cooking. If you think it doesn't count then you've never spent 10 hours in a van with five tired children who refused to nap the entire trip, except for a brief 30-minute cat nap at the beginning of the trip while you were having a major case of PMS and your husband was complaining about how the dog wasn't staying on her blanket, as she might mess up the carpet in said van. Then you spent the entire next day dealing with the same tired and wild kids, still with the case of PMS and trying to keep the house that you're selling in one piece. If you've been there and done that then you TOTALLY know that using that can opener counts as cooking supper.

7. We are now the proud owners of a full size van.....not a minivan......a full size van......the kind that looks like a church bus, only nicer inside. I'll take pictures later. Right now I have to bathe kids and get them to bed. I've had all I can handle. Oh, we got our van 2 weeks ago. It made the trip much more comfortable. Like I said I'll take pictures later. I know you're just dying to see it! If I ever had any coolness about me it is now all gone. I am driving a bus to the carpool line from now on!