Got keys???

Today we got the keys to the new house. We can start moving boxes and the office in a few days. Hopefully, this raining cats and dogs will stop for us to do the official move next week-end. We close escrow on the 12th and we have til the 15th to get everything out from the old house. I am excited and sad at the same time, I have become real good friends with my next door neighbors and will miss them alot. The exciting part, is that we start a new chapter in our book of life and I can't wait to start living in a single story house.....Yup!! no more up and down that hurts my knees.

I think the new house will be great for us, not so big, but not to small, just perfect for us. Love that the kitchen has a double oven and walk-in pantry. Also, love that the house has a water softener, great thing to have when your little one suffers from eczema, her doctor has told us a few times that having this will help her skin. Love also that it has a 3 car garage, so we can have the single car garage to store some of our stuff that we just can't or won't get rid of and still can park both of our cars in the garage. I can't wait.

I know. I know. You want to see pics. I will put these up once I get them uploaded into the computer, I left the camera in the car and its parked outside, and well its raining really really hard right now. Sorry.

Anyways, this is why I've been MIA for a bit. Busy. Busy. Busy. Packing. Packing. Packing.

Miss you all.

Finally!!!!

It's been official for several weeks now... She's potty trained!

Argh! She was really hard to potty train, I have tried for several months and nothing. She just refused to go. I did everything, from reading books, seeing videos, open door policy, searched for advice and ideas on the net, sat with her and had heart to heart talks about the potty. I was so frustrated! I cried! I was mad at myself, thinking I have failed. I finally, just let it be and waited for her and several weeks ago, I do not know how it happened she just asked and went on her little potty we have.......she went and was so happy......LOL!! Success!!!

She has had few accidents, she would forget she had no diapers on....LOL! But just 2 or 3 of them, not bad at all. Thank goodness.

No more diapers.
No more wipes.
No more diaper pail.

Thanks for stopping by {HUGS}

Change Has Come to America

Our 44th President has been sworn into office today. I pray that our new president can make a change, help our country and our world as so much is needed right now. We all need to support him and pray that he makes the right choices for our country.

God Bless America.

Earthquake

Ah yes! The first earthquake of the year. It was a 4.9 not to far from us, about 30 miles away. We felt a pretty big jolt and it woke Briana up. She was not scared this time. I tried putting her to sleep, but we had a few small aftershocks and she was a little scared.

My One Little Word for 2009

Faith

–noun
1. confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability.
2. belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact.
3. belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion: the firm faith of the Pilgrims.
4. belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty.
5. a system of religious belief: the Christian faith; the Jewish faith.
6. the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.: Failure to appear would be breaking faith.
7. the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.: He was the only one who proved his faith during our recent troubles.

Overwhelmed

Sigh! I feel so overwhelmed with everything going on and things that need to be done. This week-end I really hoped to get some scrapping time and join in on the crop at Scrapfreak, but it did not happen. We had the House inspection and the Appraiser over on Saturday, along came the Buyers and their Agent. Everything went well. Then I had to go take some things to my cousins house, an hour away. The In-Laws were here on Sunday, all afternoon and in the evening my friend/neighbor came over and we chatted for a long time and she made me sad as we will not be neighbors anymore. But we will be hanging around and get together very often so the girls can play together and we can scrap. We have become really good friends since we met, 7 years ago.

Today, I just cried. Selling the house is a good thing for us and I know things will get better, I have Faith. I love this house and we wished we can stay here forever, but alas it was not meant to be. We have decided to rent for awhile and take our time to find another house, so I have been searching online, newspapers and driving around for a house to rent. Argh! Did not think it was going to be hard to find a decent house. Some of the ones I have seen are either way over priced or in not so good condition or area. This part is what is killing me, not knowing where we are going to move to. I just pray we will find something decent to rent before we have to move.
I have gather up some boxes and lined them up in the guest room and will start to pack and purge tomorrow, along with entertaining a 3 year old, who just wants to play with her mama. Do some paperwork and make some phone calls to set up Georges appointments. Yeah, I think overwhelmed is the right word for today.

Happy New Years!!!

Want to wish all of my friends a Happy New Year!!! Lets hope that 2009 will be a lot better than 2008. Hope the economy gets better and the New President will make a difference in this world.

I am ready for a new beginning. I need to put 2008 behind me and start anew. I'm very Hopeful! I will no longer ask "How worse can it get?". So, I will not say these words in 2009. I can't handle anymore bad news or anymore of the doom and gloom of this economy that is changing our lives.

Cheers to 2009!!!!