She came...she went

So I met the realtor. She is very nice. She looked at the house and all the updates we have made and said that she will pull some comps and get back to us in a few days.....So now answer on what we can list it for yet! FINGERS CROSSED, and lots and lots of PRAYER!!!!

Nervous

I am sitting here anxiously awaiting the arrival of our realtor to take a look at the house. She is coming in for the first time to take pictures, and give us an estimate at what she thinks it will sell for. I am scared though! We haven't been in this house for very long and I am so hoping that we can break even. We have put alot of money into the house with redoing the bathroom, adding a fireplace woodburning insert, replacing carpet etc. But I know that the market is not great right now. I honestly would like to just break even (which would require us getting $10,000 more for the house then we paid for it. This will let us pay off our loan and pay realtor fees of 6% YIKES!) Of course ideally we would love to get some of our money back on the house but I am not sure. I hate this part....the waiting is the worst! Hopefully it will sell and we will make a couple of bucks, but I will certainly settle for breaking even!!!!! I prayed alot about it this morning and we have done our part as far as cleaning etc so now it's in God's hands. He has always been faithful to us before and I am trusting that He will provide the right buyer, quickly and that we will come out of it owing nothing. My head keeps racing though with the "what if's". I can't help it I am human! But my body doesn't feel anxious, my heart feels at peace and usually when this is the case things tend to work out! So Lord it's in your hands and I trust that you will work all this out!!!!

I will update you when she leaves!!!!!!

It could never happen to me.....

That's what you always think. The worst could never happen, but guess what, it did! Phil went up to Montreal to do a big job. He left yesterday and decided to drive, because by the time you fly it takes up the same amount of your day. He arrived there later in the evening last night, and he went to dinner and was back at his room around 9:30 pm. He went to bed as usual, woke up this morning shower,ed dressed, ate, and was ready to go to work. He went out to the hotel parking garage and before he rounded the corner clicked the unlock button on his truck. He heard no noise! He did it again and still no noise. As he approached his parking spot he saw NOTHING! Someone came and stole his new truck! This truck was not even a year old and it is gone, along with his tools, his passport, sunglasses, and GPS! I am still in a state of shock. I cannot believe someone would come and steal that truck. Who does that? I have always heard stories of this happening but you never think it WILL happen to you. The Chevy Silverado is the #1 stolen vehicle in Montreal and what does he have a Chevy Silverado!

Everything's gone. Thankfully it's only stuff and it can all be replaced. Thankfully he wasn't around when it happened and he was not harmed at all. God only knows what would have happened if he had walked out there while they were taking it. They are seasoned theives though. Phil has Onstar in his car and these guys somehow hacked into the Onstar system and made Onstar's records look as if he canceled the service last year. However, we know this is NOT true because just last month he had the truck towed because it was not starting and Onstar was the one he called.

I think the thing that bothers me most out of all of this, is How can someone do this and live with themselves? I would like to think that all humans have some sort of conscience, but who knows? How could you sleep at night? Here we are just average Joe's, Phil works his ass off to give us a good life and nice things and some scumbag can come in and steal our truck from us! Thankfully we have what is important and we are good people and that's what counts, not the STUFF! It just blows my mind! I can't even begin to wrap my head around this!

Pray for us!!!

As you all know we are looking for a new house! We got the go ahead from the company so we are now actively looking and I really want to be in the new house by April 1st! It's perfect timing to get this house on the market and ready for sale. We were originally looking for a rental home because even though the company will be paying for our house here, the mortgage is still in our name and we can't afford to have 2 mortgages in our names. So after much searching we decided to look for a rent to own property. Phil is going to look at both of them this week since he has a job out that way. I am have fallen in love with this one house in particular and I am hoping that we will get this one. A very nice woman owns the property and is eager to rent to a "nice family" as she put it, who will enjoy it as much as she did while raising her family. We have only seen a picture of the outside so I am hoping the inside is as nice as it sounds. It is 5 bed, 2 baths, has a garage, land, and a barn for horses. Oh yah and an inground pool! I LOVE SWIMMING and I want a pool so badly!

The woman sounds so nice and she is willing to sell it to the right people when the time is right for everyone! She seems very patient and ended the conversation with God Bless and I really think she would be great to rent from. So if you would and you think of it, please say a prayer for us that this is OUR house and if not then God will bring us something even better.

To me it seems perfect...great house with everything we are looking for, nearby schools, close to family yet still far enough away to have privacy and amenities nearby (food shopping etc)

I will keep you updated!!!! I really hope this is our house!!!

Cinderella's Ball

Today was an interesting day. Phil went hiking up in the Adirondacks with my BIL and we were just going to stay home today. That is of course until I watched the news. They had advertised that Cinderella was having a ball today with Prince Charming at the museum in Rochester. Now the first thought that crossed my mind was this would be fun but me going alone with 2 kids of very different ages can I do this? But I decided to throw the negative thinking out and give it a try. So Emma got all dressed up in her princess outfit for the ball. She asked what I was wearing and I said pants and she asked why I wasn't wearing a dress. I said that I had none that were suitable for a ball. Her reply was "that's all right mommy you can just wear your yucky clothes that's all right." So off we went Emma in her princess clothes all ready for the ball and me in my yucky clothes! We got there just in time to dance with Prince Charming and Cinderella! From there we sat and ate a feast at the king's table, and then went and got Emma's hair braided by Rapunzel's hair salon! Then the fairy godmother declared Emma princess for the day! We had so much fun! After the princess festivities we were off to play in the rest of the museum we went grocery shopping in the "little kid" Wegmans, got to be on tv with Abby Cadabby, and Rosita, rode the train, and played in the little kid area, along with coloring and lots of other exploring. We ended the day with a trip to the gift shop to get a princess hat and a treat and we called it a day. It was nice and made the day go by so much quicker than if we just stayed here. Ethan actually had fun too, and he's not even able to do that much. They both were really good and I am proud of myself that I ventured out to a VERY public place with both kids on my own. It's really the only time I have done that, besides the occasional food shopping. I am sure it will get much harder once Ethan starts walking but for now, I succeeded without too much of a hassle!

I did not have my digital with me (Phil took it) so I had to use the film camera. Once I develop them of course I will share them with everyone!

Weening

As Ethan is approaching 10 months I decided it time to try to start weening him. No I don't breast feed but I was hoping to loose the bottle by the time he is 1 years old. He is not too fond of sippies in general and hasn't really used one yet. I don't want to quit cold turkey for him either because the bottle is such a comfort to him. So today I decided I would give it a try. This morning he got his bottle and then at 10:30 he was hungry for milk again so I thought I would put it in a sippy and see what happened. Ethan has very different ideas about this! He hates it! He won't even hold it and he turns his head in disgust! It's actually rather funny and I know it's not gonna kill him to be on a bottle past a year, I just thought I would give it a try.

So I will keep offering a sippy, but if he turns his head up at it I doubt he will take it anytime soon! He doesn't like juice either so that won't help turn him on to it!

We shall see what happens but for now he is a bottle baby!

Change of Perspective

I woke up this morning bright and early at 5 am to feed Ethan. As I came downstairs I found that our cat Zoe (who we just realized yesterday is a BOY!) had torn open and trash and it was strewn about the kitchen and living room! I was pissed to say the least! And then it started...."Why am I always the one who has to clean this?" "Why am I the only one responsible for the animals etc?" "Why can't anyone else do this?" I cleaned it up, fed and changed Ethan made some coffee and sat down to watch Joyce Meyer as I do many mornings! She had a doctor on this morning who was talking about having his own practice and being solely responsible for his patients. Even at 2am when he received calls from the emergency room saying his patient had not had a bowel movement and needs an enema! He began to resent all of this and often found himself saying "why do they have to call me all the time?" "Can't I just get some sleep?" "Why can't they just call someone else?" Then he began to pray about it and heard God tell him that it's not the people that are the problem it is his ATTITUDE! He should be grateful for all things and he would feel better about all of it. So instead of complaining at those 2am bowel movement calls (lol) he began saying "Thank you God that I am here and able to help these people!" Just by doing that simple thing his whole life changed! He was less stressed. He was happier, and thing didn't look so bad!

So today instead of getting up like I did and saying Oh Lord why am I.....how come I am the only one who......

Start thanking God that you are here and able to serve them. Thank Him that people look to you for your help and strength. Thank Him that you are alive and have another day! Just see how your whole day will change with this one simple thing! I dare you!