is it sat yet?

Seriously...the past few weeks have flown by and even this week hasn't been super slow, but it could have literally taken 2 months to get through these past 2 days. Or maybe it's because we've gone without a house since JUNE! How many months is that? We're getting close to 4...I want my house! I want this dang thing to close, which is taking forever!!! We had been told Thurs was good, but then they stuck to the original purchase and sale. This time we're not waiting on the house-it's done! We're waiting on the mortgage crap. How annoying! They've only had our stuff since April! You would think this could move along! Anyway, enough of my exclamation marks :)

So I've started packing this dump up. I have started decorating in my mind, which has gotten me nowhere...help. I bought some yummy candles yesterday as a housewarming present to myself :) I went to Target today and TC was a screaming monster. But before I had to carry him out like a squirming 20lb football, I managed to get AM a nightstand and lamp to go with her bedroom stuff. I decided in the playroom I need to put up something to display her preschool artwork. I am not very creative...I like those pin/ribbon boards better than just a cork board, but they are also more expensive. Any suggestions?
Well hopefully next time I get on here I'll be all moved in! ETA to BL: 9am Sat!

stress crying

Just as I'm about to get on here and talk about how stressful my day has been and how at any moment I am going to start crying, AM runs over with a wipey I had given her, it's super dirty, I say throw it away, her:No (which has been her allllll day), I turn around and she was wiping the desk (which we use as a tv stand right now in this sh*#hole apt) and I'm like No, stop, then in the process of her throwing the wipey, running away, her cup on the table spills lemonade all over the floor. I just cry, I can't stand my day anymore. All morning the kids cried, screamed, did everything I said not to. I spent 40 minutes on the phone with Comcast which is annoying in itself. Costco was TC screaming because he was hungry and tired. I hadn't showered yet at that point so it was worse that I was sweating in my sweatshirt b/c the cold morning turned into a warm afternoon. I have done 500 loads of laundry the past few days b/c I was sick, AM was stuffed up, and C was sick last night, I keep disinfecting everything. I can't stand dog crap. I have never wanted to move into my house more than I have today. I want space, I want the dogs out of my face, I want the toys out of the middle of our only room to walk through, I want a kitchen that doesn't disgust me. I want to cry more. If only moving would make my 3 year old listen to me. I swear I don't know what to do with her....is there a boarding preschool out there? Ha! You know I'm just kidding...kind of.

When I went to get on here this morning I had so much to say, so many thoughts running through my head...then I got distracted (kids), did a bunch of stuff (kids, laundry, phone calls, lunch)...and now I don't remember what I wanted to talk about.
I was super sick yesterday- the flu, but luckily only about a 24 hour bug. I puked my brains out Mon night and spent yesterday in agonizing aches and pains and a fever. Today is 100 times better! Okay 98 maybe, I haven't really eaten, nothing sounds good, and I just had to chew some gum to make this taste get out of my mouth...weird.
I am hoping the kids do not get what I had. AM has been stuffed up for a couple days and she did stay home from preschool yesterday, and I'm contemplating ballet tonight..she seems good now, but this morning she wasn't great. Maybe I'll keep her home so she rests and is better for school tomorrow? I don't know..so indecisive!

One week from tomorrow we close on our house! We get to move in on the 3rd and I really cannot even believe it. I was sitting here this morning wondering what life will be like, how we keep saying we'll get back to some normalcy, and I was scared because I don't remember what that is even?! C said it will be like Christmas with all our stuff since we don't even remember what we had...clothes, shoes, ahh my purses!!! Me, I am proud of myself I have carried the same purse all summer...it's amazing...someone who changed her purse with every outfit. Luckily I had a great purse for the summer!
All my kitchen stuff, and I will be able to cook again. This apt kitchen is horrible! I am heartbroken when I think of my kids and all they've given up for the past 2 months-and I am so happy to give them their beautiful home and their bedrooms and even their BEDS! It's going to be amazing!
On top of all that, we went to the house on Monday, they put sod in the whole backyard and fenced it too! We didn't know this was going to happen so it was a big bonus for us!
The house is gorgeous and almost ready for us! Here we come moving truck!
This weekend we're headed off to Yak to visit some friends, super excited for some fun times.
And since I disinfected the bathroom and rewashed all the sheets, hopefully the sickness will be gone and not have a return visit!

so ready to get out of puyallup!

No offense to those who live in or may love Puyallup...but I am so done with this town! I will enjoy living near by so I can go to the 'mall'(or I might just go to SC) and being close to the fair was fun, there are a few restaurants that are here that won't be in Bonney Lake- but for the most part I cannot stand our apartment. I cannot stand the traffic. I am so excited to move into our new house. The apt is getting to be almost unbearable! Why do people not pick up their dog crap? I mean seriously there are a million dogs at this complex and they have nicely supplied garbage containers and even rolls of dog poo bags all over, plenty of green grass areas for them and people literally let their dog crap next to the bag holder and garbage can and they don't have the decency to pick it up? It's disgusting! I guess that just says what kind of people live there...lazy, trashy people. I hate dog poo, more than anyone! I had only scooped dog poo like 2 times before this summer. And trust me-it's going back to our yard/C's job as soon as we move! Ha-sorry honey.

I hate stressing about money, hate it. Yet I go through these phases where I do. Now is one of those times. I seriously have like anxiety issues. I just have to calm down and believe everything will be okay. I know it will...it has to be. Ahhh deep breaths.

We are at the mall right now (south hill) and the kids are playing on the toys. I use the term vaguely-it's no Bell Sq or anything. But then again the kids are having fun, they don't know that people in Bell have nicer toys because the median income there is like 5 times higher or whatever. Haha! Anyway, it's still fun for them and that's what counts!

We took the kids to the fair yesterday. It was really fun. AM got to go on a bunch of rides in the little kid area. Poor TC couldn't even go on the merry-go-round with me holding him b/c he's not 2. That kind of sucked. But I figure next year they both can go on rides together and we'll be close by. We took a bus from the mall, it was way better than driving! And they have one from BL too, so we'll be able to do that again next year.
Oh and most importantly! Can't believe I didn't talk about this first! AM loves preschool! She had 2 days this week- she did great! She also had her first ballet/tumbling class which was so cute and she loved it! Can't wait til next week! It's fun to start something new and I know this sounds annoying but seriously it will be even better when we live in our house and I am so much closer for driving and we have a normal household life again. Ahh I cannot wait. Anyway, AM painted her 1st picture at school on Thurs but it was drying so we get to take it home next week...I can't wait to see it! How cute!

Okay, we need to go to the grocery store now...have a good weekend!

thoughts

I have had so many thoughts in the past few days and thought I need to blog.
-I have been checking facebook but having nothing to say myself, I don't update anything.
-I think my daughter is gorgeous, smart, sweet, funny and then she becomes Chucky and she's C's kid.
-My son is absolutely my baby boy and I love it.
-He's also a cry baby which we need to stop!
-Preschool starts tomorrow and I'm nervous and excited.
-I'm sick of reading the same books over and over and over
-I cannot wait to move into our house more than anything
-I am scared to have to budget so much and live very safe with a bigger house payment but am so excited to be in that house I think I'll do anything.
-I made a half a pot of coffee this morning for myself, which I Never do...figures that says something about how I think this morning/day will go.
-If C and I agree on furniture, we have to get it b/c it's pretty rare!
-I am very excited to take the kids to the Fair next weekend. Growing up I always went, but C grew up way north and only has been to the fair once when we were first dating- I'm happy to make it a new family tradition that my kids remember when they grow up :)
-I can't wait to start having homemade cooking all the time in my new big kitchen. And to start working out again! To be healthier again!
-I love that AM likes to sing along with songs.
-My dogs drive me crazy.

I guess that's it for now. If I think of more that have been running through my head I'll be back!

fun day, exhausting life :)

I had it planned to go to the zoo today, then C tells me yesterday he has to work tonight and Fri night instead of days- and he keeps swearing this night job is ALMOST done! After much nonchalant noncaring on my part, he decided on his on accord to join us. I will tell you AM has been asking if Daddy is going to the zoo with us everytime we've gone for like the past year and a half, or whenever she could talk. So he joins us and we had lots of fun together, I was so happy for AM.
Yesterday my mom came down and we showed her the new house, which they had a ton of stuff done, and it was gorgeous! Love it! It will be done sooo soon, and I swear I will not even know what to do with that huge house?!?! Ahhh love it.
If anyone who reads this has advice on the potty for little ones- please comment. AM has been going to the bathroom on the toilet for months and months. She had some accidents on vacation in Aug where I chalked it up to having too much fun with her cousins to stop playing. Then she's been good-even not having accidents in pullups over night. It seemed if she had to go at all, she woke me up and went on the toilet. In the past week she has had a ton of accidents, daytime, nightime pullup pees and also including 2 poos!? What? That has Never happened. So what is it? Is it because we used to always help her everytime and lately we have told her she's got to practice all by herself b/c that's what they have to do at preschool- all by herself. Is she nervous? Is she feeling pressured? I've tried to be more patient but also let her know it's disappointing and we need to really focus on going on the potty and all the time. Preschool is only 2 1/2hrs, so in all reality she shouldn't have to go much if she goes before she leaves. However, she goes thru phases of going like 10 times in an hour. Usually not in the morning, so hopefully we're good for preschool. I think it's more afternoon and evening after she's had lots of water throughout the day. We'll see...I'm just nervous. So she probably is too...

pms

Seriously I just figured out what is wrong with me. I don't know why it took this long in the day to realize, but I looked at the date, I have been hungry all day, and now I'm super tired. I had a productive morning but then I didn't feel like doing anything else. I had luckily cleaned the house, showered and grocery shopped early. I spent the rest of the afternoon wanting to nap and wishing fall was officially here and I was in my new house cozy with the kids. I'm so tired right now! That treat receipt is sounding pretty good right-a caffeine boost would be nice for at least a half hour pick me up! Okay, off to clean up after my messy rugrats. Their room looks like a tornado hit it....

our long weekend

Friday we visited JK and her new baby girl, and her older baby girl. The kids had fun playing and I got to visit and hold a new baby :) And no, I do not want another one, which totally confirmed that I am happy we made the choice to only have 2! C said I would have to have one with my 2nd husband if I wanted more- ha! He said maybe I didn't have the itch because TC is still a baby but AM was way younger when I got the itch for him so I don't think that's it! Then I realized TC seems like so much more of a baby than AM did, even though looking back at pics it's crazy to think she was just about 19-20 months when she went in her toddler bed and she was so little still! Maybe she just follows the fact girls are more mature :)
Sat we ran some errands and spent the evening watching football. Sun we drove north to Sultan to see my brother and sister in law's new house. It's really cute and I am sooo happy for them! I cannot wait to see it after Alicia gets it all warm and cozy like she does-it will be so nice and homey.
Then on our way home we stopped at our new house b/c we realized we had never even been in the house together and the kids hadn't ever been in it! We bought a house 'separately' but luckily it was the same house :) And it was even more beautiful than I remembered! So nice and I cannot wait to get out of this nasty apt and move into our gorgeous house! We figured out some of the things we're going to have where and picked the kids rooms. We are sooo excited!
Yesterday we ran some errands in the morning and then hung out at home all day. This week will be short which I feel like I'm running out of time to do things! AM starts school and dance next week! I'm really nervous for her to start school now! Crazy. So this week, well today we have to go grocery shopping and maybe costco. Tomorrow I'm still figuring out. Thurs I decided I'm taking the kids to the zoo since it's not supposed to rain and won't be super packed b/c most kids are in school but it will be a nice treat for AM before she starts. And Fri is her school open house and then we head up to gma's to visit and I use her kitchen to make cupcakes for C's mom's remembrance bday dinner at his brother's. I'm making her favorite-blackbottom cupcakes. Sat we have the dinner and Sun was something but I don't remember what! Busy week. Time to shower, get the kids dressed and off to the store...lucky for me they have a starbucks so I can treat myself to a pumpkin spice latte! Talk soon-

new house!

http://m.johnlscott.com/propertydetail.aspx?GroupID=205174766&ListingID=300219547&Sort=129

home

Bonney Lake will still be our new town! I guess I assumed people wouldn't think we'd pick another area. Maybe because we have no real ties to BL and we could technically move anywhere we wanted. However, even the smallest tie, or even thoughts I guess made us not even think of looking elsewhere. AM is already registered and ready to start preschool down here, we are living in Puyallup just so we're close and ready! And she's signed up to start ballet and tumbling the same week as preschool. We've already had it in our heads that this is where we'll live. It didn't really occur to us to change that. Others see it differently though, even my brother and sis-in-law, and my cousin said oh maybe you could look further north. I said nope-BL it is, AM is ready for everything there. So after we made our offer, I did look online back up in Snohomish for houses like ours, but I couldn't find anything close to as nice for even 100 thousand more!!! Can you believe that? It just confirmed our choice to live down here. So yes, we're staying in Bonney Lake, it will be our home and we're excited to be part of the new area. Not to mention the new house is really close to Lake Tapps- so nice! Fun for next summer!

New House?!

We have officially rescinded our offer on the house. How crazy is that. Hopefully they will just sign it and send us our earnest money back. They tried to say the cabinets they put in were more expensive, higher end. Well, even though I'm sure they're full of crap-regardless, if the cabinets did cost more they are still ugly and not what we thought we were getting. They did offer to change the trim. I was more willing to live with the trim than the cabinets. And they admitted we were supposed to get darker cabinets and these aren't but no excuse or reason as to why. So we are done with those people. I am actually relieved. It would be more nerve racking if we had no other option and thought we may be living in this apt forever! But we made an offer on a house we both really love. And after looking at a few more, we realize this may have been meant to be. This new house is laid out more how we want, it's gorgeous, C and I both really really love it, the yard is bigger, flatter, and a Huge thing I was giving up on the other house that I really wanted (especially if buying new) the laundry room is upstairs. So, we have been countered on our offer, but we accepted their counter- should be officially good to go later today. And closing should be I think around the 1st of Oct. I'm excited but in shock! And even though these people seem normal (well the builder) I am still nervous since the last time it was a fiasco. Keep your fingers crossed it all works out!