Discovery~

About a week ago I discovered it......PINTEREST!

I knew about it and had seen it before...but I had yet to explore it myself!  Oh my gosh!  I could spend all day on it and still not see everything!

I see crafts I want to do and recipes that I want to make!

But most of all I see things that my Mom would have loved!  She would have loved this site!  She could have done many of these home ideas and in fact she has done some of them. I look and I look and all I think about is her and I see her sitting and looking at all this stuff and thinking about what she could be making.  She could find all these items to make the stuff that I see at garage sales or thrift stores...you name it and she could find it.

I wish that I had more of her in me.  More of her ability to see something out of nothing and be able to create it!

She has been on my mind these last few weeks.  I have been needing her and needing to talk to her.  The need just never goes away.  So many things I want to ask her .....so many things I need to tell her.

I miss her~   :(

I think I got a job~

Well, I got the call yesterday afternoon......Looks like I got a job!  I can't really say so for sure yet...but the offer was made and I accepted!  So, very happy about it.

Now I have to pass the pre-screening which I did today.  I thought it was going to be easy as pie.  Just lift a 50 pound box...you know show then how strong I'm and then be done.  Well, was I ever wrong.  I did lift a 50 pound box and I did carry this said 50 pound box across the room and back.  I also had to push this 50 pound box across the room and then pull it back again!!

Okay.....thought I was done..................Nope....not done!

Now I lift this empty box up and down 10 times.....it isn't light as a feather or stiff as a board!  Not at all!  Breathing just a little heavy right about now.  Just a little bit out of shape here! All done? Nope! Not yet! Now I have to lift said box once again up and over my head two times.....what?  Try and ask her again to explain herself so I can get a little breather in.  Okay did it..... I think!  My mind was a little off at this point.  

Done?   Nope...not yet!  Now I have to go and walk half a mile on treadmill! I know half a mile isn't much but after doing all that heavy lifting...which I'm far from used to, with no break......UGH!!!  I can do it....right?

I did it!

Got right off treadmill and that's it.Out the door you go.  No you pass or you fail! 

Hmmm....I guess I'll give it a few days and see if I get another call telling me what to do from here!  I'll keep you all posted! Right now I'm just resting after my stressful day.  Got my feet up! LOL!!  In my dreams!

Lincoln News~

Hey!

I'm not really sure if I have any readers.....but what the heck...I will still do some postings and let you know how it's going here in Lincoln.

Well, today I had an interview for a job!  It's with the school system and I really hope that I get it.  It's just so boring sitting around the house all day!  It's not like I can go out and do anything fun like shopping.  I like to work.  It makes me feel like I'm doing something for me and my family.  Gets me off  the computer...not that I seem to be spending lots of time on here either.  But hopefully I will hear something soon.  Keep your fingers crossed for me! :)


Ty and Emmie seem to be enjoying school so far.  They both said they made some friends on the first day...so that was a relief. I just wish they had some friends to play with that lived close by.  I have yet to see any kids their ages on our street.  I'm sure in a few weeks they will have more friends and maybe get invited over to someones house or they might want to invites someone over here.

I do have to admit to you that I'm missing Devin.  It just seems like a little piece of our family isn't here. But the thing that really hurts me is that he isn't missing me.  He is having the time of his life!  I talk to him every day and I know that I will have to start just having him call me every other day and then go down from there.  But it's hard not talking to him and seeing how he is.  I'm used to seeing him every day and  I will see him in September for a few days and then I'm not sure when I will see him next and that's okay with him.  I guess you could say now I know how my Mom felt. :(

First day of school~

 Today was the first day of school.  Seems like the summer went by very fast.  But the kids were more then ready to get back to school and meet some new friends and just get back into the swing of things.  It's been a hard summer for all of us.  Just getting used to a new city again after a long move.  Moves are hard on everyone and my kids always seem to adjust to them.  I hope that we don't have to do this to them anytime soon.


Ty started 7th grade....middle school.  He's in the middle right now.  It's a 6th through 8th grade school.  He said he had a pretty good day.  He did meet some friends and he said his favorite class so far was English.  He liked his teacher a lot.  I was very worried about his whole walking thing.  It's a very busy road and he has a bit of a walk.  It will take him about 15 minutes with the lights and traffic.  Nothing like we are used to.  I'm not happy at all.

 Emmie started 3rd grade.  Her school is really nice and I like her teacher so far.  We got to meet all the 3rd grade teachers when we went and got her all signed up.  She got the one she wanted!  So, that was good.  She met two friends today.  One was a girl and one a boy.  She doesn't remember the names...but as long as she made a couple of friends that is really good.  She also has to walk to school!  For her it's about a 10 minute walk.  Hopefully I will be able to get  a job where I can take her and pick her up.  I do NOT want her walking home by herself!  Ty could come and pick her up, but he gets out a few minutes after her and he would be about 10 or so minutes late picking her up.  UGH!!!  What to do! 

 They are both growing up fast and before I know it they will be gone off doing their own thing. :(

Love these photos..have one from every year.

Emmie in front of her school

Emmie waiting in line before school.

Emmie's teacher

Our NOT so Lovely House!

 Well, here it is.....our house.  It's a lot smaller then our house that we had in Lacey...but I guess when you are doing everything over the phone you can't really expect a lot. 

 We had a lot more space in our front room in Lacey and now we don't have much at all.  The front room kind of goes into the dinning area. It's an older home....back to the hardwood floors...which I don't mind. 

 Here is the dinning area.  Kind of a sad looking table now with only 4 chairs!  :(  Don't like the looks of it at all now.







The Kitchen is VERY ugly!  I just don't even want to talk about it.  Just know that I didn't even want to put the picture up...but I did...and it was for you!

Our very UGLY kitchen!

Another view of the front room.

I got my craft area back.  That's one of the things that I like about this house.  I can set it up down in the basement and when I get a chance I will try and start back up again.

Changes~

 In June I watched my son Devin walk across the stage and receive his high school diploma. It was an emotional night for me and many others.  It was a long year of not knowing if it was going to happen with our move to Washington.  But in the end it happened and I couldn't have been more thrilled and happy for him.  He deserved this and had worked very hard to make it all happen. 

 But as I sit here today I think back on that moment. It brings tears to my eyes. So, many things have changed since then.  Devin has decided that he wants to stay in Vancouver.  I know he is 19 and able to make choices on his own.....but when he told me what he had decided it was like a bomb went off.  My whole world has been turned upside down.  If I would have been more prepared for it I might have been able to handle this better...but as it is...I'm having a really hard time with this and I'm really not sure that anyone can really understand it but me.  It's like he was just taken away. No warning at all.  We were expecting for him to be here with us in a few weeks and now our life has changed. From big things all the way down to the little things. I go to set the table grabbing 5 plates and then remember that from now on it will only be 4 plates.  I sit at the table for dinner and I remember when it was all of us and now its just us 4.  It just feels wrong and different.  I walk by the room that we fixed up for him and I can't look inside....it just hurts too much.  

Devin and Ty

Emmie and Devin

 I think about all the things that I won't have with him.  In all the years I have never...not once been apart on his birthday.  Do you know what that does to a Mom?  All those little things that no one is thinking about, but I'm. 

Wahoo Parade~

 Last night we got to walk in a parade!  Hmmm....at first I was a little bit unsure about this whole thing.  Walk in a parade?  ME!  Never done that...never thought I would do that.  Tim...sure he would do that and would love it and did love it.  But we did it and it was kind of fun.  We got to dress is these pink shirts for his new work.  The only one not real excited about the pink shirts was the one down below.....Ty.  He sure doesn't look very excited about this whole wearing pink shirts thing and looking just like the everyone else thing. 

Real men can wear pink!

Pretty darn cute.

Handing out some paper pads.

 After the parade we walked down to the fair.  Nothing like the Clark County Fair. The kids went on a few ride and we walked around and saw some animals.  Something a little different.

I even had Ty take a picture of Tim and I!

Tim and Emmie on roller coaster.

Ty loving this ride! He went on it twice!

Emmie's first time on the Ferris Wheel...loved it!