So this has been our life. The last 5 months of our lives. We have lived amongst a mess. We have lived among dust. We have lived with dressers in the wrong rooms. With things put away and still not yet found. We have moved toys and sofas and computers. But we are getting there. Today they put on the 2nd coat of the mud for the mud'n'tape. We have walls. Soon we will have paint. Then hopefully we will have carpet and can move. Our origina

l room will be Keegan's room. We have shortened it by 3 feet or so. Unfortunately we are still living in this room. Imagine our king size bed which is 7 feet long in a room that's about 8.5 feet wide. And yesterday? they added a huge piece of plastic to protect our bed. We just laugh. What else can you do? It's only 5 months out of our lives and our house will be better for it in the end. If we can all survive this bump in the road what better to do than just laugh?

And say, "thank you" to all who have given their time and expertise to our little addition!

Done Whining

So, I am done whining. Life got difficult for a while but now I have gotten back up on my horse and have decided that enough is enough. I am a 39-year-old woman and whining isn't pretty.

So, it's a new year. I don't do resolutions cuz I hate setting myself up for failure. Even little failure. So I just have some new ideas.

If I don't like the weight, change it. Just cuz my boys can eat us out of house and home doesn't mean I can, or should. So, leave the snacks to the boys. Mom and I are walking. She has been using her pedometer faithfully for months so I am going to piggy-back on her "steps". I am still (attempting to) playing soccer twice a week, and yes it is really cold once the sun goes down for outdoor, but it's still running and still good for me.

I will spend more time with the boys. Now that they are getting older the rules seemed to have changed and they just don't play the same. I'm not really into video games but we did have a Wii tournament this Sunday. I made dad stay away from the addition and anything around the house that needed to be worked on. Of course that meant that on Wednesday I was outside shoveling dirt to fill in our electrical ditch, trying to make up for not letting him do it. Who digs anyway? Tho it was great exercise. Never realized how many calories that you could burn while shoveling. Still not so good for the back.

I will be a better friend, and will surround myself with those who are in turn friends to me. They don't have to spoil me, call constantly, email or even text, just those that treat me with respect. Maybe I lose a few, maybe I don't. But the ones that I do lose were probably not meant to be in the long run.

They aren't resolutions they are just a hopeful attempt at changing what i don't like. Cuz only I can change it. Only I can make myself happy. Only I can stop the whining. At least my own. I will figure out how to stop the boys' whining when I get mine under control!