What a busy week....

First, let me say Happy Birthday to my baby girl!!!! Marci turned 29 on April 17, her last year in the good ole 20's. She had to work that day as it was a Friday, but we took them out to Puleo's for dinner and I got her a pretty necklace that she really liked.
This week has been a whirl wind, I spent all day Monday running around Maryville getting our electric and water switched over and took out a new homeowners insurance policy on our new home. Tuesday and today I ran Dwight's car to the dealers to get the A/C fixed, they had to order parts, wrong parts, so they gave me a loaner car today cause it's so hot outside and didn't want me driving in this heat *lol* Looks like another trip to the dealers next week and keeping my fingers crossed the right parts are ordered this time.
My sister has 'handed over' the deed of getting my Mother's house cleaned out and ready to sell. We're going over in the morning to change the locks since I was there on Wed. this week and someone had been in the house again and left the door wide open : ( I've got a ton of work to do there, getting all the old appliances and junk hauled off by someone, having Goodwill come pick up the furniture and then get the carpets shampooed. Landscaping will need to be done and then get it listed with my real estate agent/friend Trish. Did I mention between all of this that we will be closing on our new house this Thursday, April 30 ??? Ohhhhhh lord what have I gotten myself into, I'm a glutton for punishment *LMAO* That will be exciting and a lot of hard work but I am so happy to be getting ready to move back home again ~ doing the happy dance : ) I'll have to put a pic up here next time I post (hubby is using my external hard drive right now and I can't get to them) I've already got a lot of boxes packed this week, things that I know I can live without for the next few months and if I do happen to really need it then I'll borrow and buy another one *LOL*
Going to go watch my recorded American Idol to see who goes home before I hear it from somebody and ruin the show. Goooooooooooo Adam and Danny
Have a great weekend, it's going to be in the low 80's here!!!

Time flies by....

Wow, I can't believe how fast this year is going by already. We are well into Spring now, although the weather outside isn't showing it. Temps in the upper 70's one week and snow the next.
We have our vacation beach house rented for the summer trip and I'm excited about it, not our usual place this year. We wanted somewhere that had a pool and ocean front and LOTS of shopping and things to do so we are going to Tybee Island, GA this year with the kids. I know the week will go by so quickly but I anticipate we are really going to enjoy it there and can't wait for the time to get here to pack our bags and head out!!!
We finally found a house that we both agreed on that we fell in love with as soon as we pulled up in the drive. It sits on two acres and has a view that will take your breath away, looking at the Great Smokey mountains...aaawwwwww Home again!!!! The kids are excited about it too and have already been to check it out. I'm off today to get the homeowners insurance on it and have the electric and water turned over to our name so we will have everything ready for our closing date of April 30th, oh gosh, that's less than two weeks and I have barely started packing : )
Easter was last Sunday, April 12 and we had a nice day, the kids came over for dinner and spent most of the day, Megan kept us busy with egg hunts *lol* I enjoyed it with her this year and kept thinking she is growing up so fast and most likely won't be interested in things like this next year so I want to take advantage of her being 'our little girl' as long as I can.
Been busy trying to get Mom's place all cleaned up and ready to sell, that's another story and I won't even begin to get into the crap that is going on with my sister on that. Pretty much in a nut shell, she has left everything for me to do, cleaning out everything, hauling off junk, taking care of the yard and all the cleaning that is to be done and she said she would show up at closing for her part of the check!!! Can we all say 'BITCH' Well, enough of that, have to keep myself on a positive note and not let her drag me down. I will say that my heart just sank and I sat down and cried after going into Mom's over the weekend and seeing the mess that my sis left behind for me........
Better get off here for now and head towards Maryville, got a ton of work to do on the house but I am so looking forward to getting started on it and get the hell out of Dodge *lmao*

Where did January Go????

I can't believe how quickly January has passed this year. Busy getting all the Christmas decorations taken down and packed away in the attic and trying to get the house back in order. Now it's time to decorate for Valentine's Day.

Jan. 18 was Megan's birthday, she is 10 years old now, OMG how fast she is growing up, seems like yesterday I was sitting in the rocking chair holding her. Marci had her a fantastic dinner at Wasabi, a Japanese steak house. Megan was afraid they were going to set her on fire with all those flames from the grill *lmao* She had her best friend with her and afterward they had a slumber party.

Still having a LOT of problems with my back, but hoping to get my injections done again around the end of this month. Sure wish they would come up with a cure for this pain.

This week was Groundhogs day!!! It looks like another 6 weeks of bad weather for us and we ended up getting a beautiful snow that day. I think this is one of the prettiest snows we have had in several years and everything was so peaceful and clean looking out. I didn't get out in it except to take the pups out, Butch didn't care much for it and poor little Daisy just was trying to figure out why her legs kept disappearing from her when she would sink down into the snow *lol*

Here's a pic from miss Megan's birthday.

Hope everyone is off to a good start for Feb. and not snowed under!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I sure hope that everyone had a great Happy New Year!!!
We had a fun night here, kids came over and we brought in the new year together. We played board games and Rook most of the night and had a toast at midnight and ate way to many munchies *lol* at the stroke of midnight everybody's phones started ringing with calls from our friends and sharing toasts for the New Year. Did you make any resolutions??? I made the usual but hope I can actually stick to a few of them this year, New Year, New You!!! My biggest one is to quit smoking and exercise more (big grin) My biggest wish for this year is to find us a home in our old home town and get moved back there before to long. I miss being close to my babies! With all the food and snacks and not to mention the big bowl of fudge I had better stick to my exercise or there's no way we'll be wearing shorts or a bathing suit come summer : ) lmao So to pull out the exercise bike and Gazelle and get started. I'll share some Christmas and New Year's pics with ya just as soon as I get some pages finished and learn how to create a slide show *lol*
I wish you all love, happiness and peace in the new year.
Cheers : )

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

Merry Christmas to everyone and a joyous, prosperous New Year.
I sure had a great Christmas and enjoyed spending time with all of the families during the week. I think we were busy every single night of the week beginning on Sunday with a family get together at Dan and Kathy's house. I always love going there, Kathy has got to be one of the best decorators I know and her home always looks awesome on the inside and out. That girl has to spend a month just getting her decorations out. Kathy, if you're for hire I'd love you to come decorate my house for me *lmao* Monday night, Dan, Kathy, Jimmy, Peggy and Brandy came to our house and then we all went out to eat together at Puleo's grill, of course I ate way to much but sure did enjoy the time we spent together. Christmas eve, hubby's kids came here for a get together and on Christmas day my kids and their families were here. I had an extremely great day, forgot to take as many pictures as I had planned to and got in the egg nog and rum later in the afternoon (yummmmm) I felt it was time to kick back and enjoy the rest of the evening *winks* Marci serenaded all of us with Christmas music way into the night ~ Love ya Kate!!!!
As for now, most of my Christmas decorations are carefully packed away except for the tree. I'm debating on whether to leave it up until after New Years day or not but it's really wearing on me looking at it sitting here now that all the presents are gone so we'll see if it makes it or not...... I'd like to wish everyone a wonderful, safe New Year and wish the best of everything to you. I think we're planning on having a small get together here with the kids, that way I don't have to worry about them being out drinking and driving as they stay the night with us. I got my bottle of champagne today and party favors and hats for everyone, now to pick up some snacks that everybody will enjoy and let's Get this Party Started!!!!! *lol* HAPPY NEW YEAR to all.
Love & Huggs

It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's about time I cleaned up my blog and decorated it for Christmas.

Still have beach pics up from the summer *lol* Okay, now I have my new Christmas background I have to go and make a new header to match.

While I'm doing that here's a pic I took of the kids last Christmas to be looking at....

Have a great day and leavin ya hugs

Where have I been???

Where have I been you ask? *lmao* I do believe this has been one of the most hectic years of my life. We have spent every weekend the past six months trying to find a house to buy so we can move back home and be closer to our family. The way the economy is right now and home prices falling, nobody wants to put their homes on the market, so our search will continue.
I spent the most part of this year going to doctors for my back and neck pain. I was referred to a specialist who referred me to a Spine specialist doctor. I went through two series of spinal injections to see if that would give me some relief. It may have a tiny bit, but not enough relief for me to go through the injections again, so I'll just try and learn to live with it for now.

On August 25, 2008 was my Mother's birthday, the family got together to take her out for dinner at O'Charley's, my sister and BIL were in town and went along with both my kids, Megan and Losa. I think Mom really enjoyed herself and was glad to have all of the family there with her. The next morning, August 26, 2008, Mom was scheduled to have surgery on her legs to help unclog the arteries in both of them. She was wanting to have cataract surgery on her eyes and this had to be done first. She did very well through her surgery and was recovering at a good rate, then they told us she was getting pneumonia and she caught a staph infection. Mom was so terrified that she would catch that and had my Uncle George to pray with her the night before her surgery. On September 7, 2008 we lost our Mother. There is an empty spot in my heart and I miss her so very much. I didn't know that it would be this hard to not have her in my life. I have her on my mind constantly and the holidays are going to be so very sad without her with us. I see her pretty smile on her face each time I think of her and would give anything to tell her that I love her one more time. You are very sadly missed Mom.....I Love you so much....