Leaving

Well, if you haven't been able to tell, I've not been around in quite some time. This summer has gotten the best of me. I've been putting in more hours at my 'real' job, just signed on with Berries and Cream Blog Design as a designer, and have been trying to spend more quality time with the family.

I've been struggling with this decision for a long time, and have finally resigned myself to the fact that this blog is not what I want it to be, and probably never will be. As a 'mommy' blogger, I walk a fine line with what to share, what not to share and what will happen in the future. I've tried to keep as much personal information off this blog as possible so that it won't come back to bite me (or my kids) in the butt in the future. But in doing so, I can't be completely honest about things here. Now, there's nothing earth shattering that has happened that I haven't shared, but it's hard for me to give a real portrayal of my life without sharing more than I intend to share on a public blog.

So with all that being said, I've decided to stop posting here completely. I'll still be reading other blogs, I'll still be on Twitter and will most likely in the future start a new blog. I do love to blog, but I've decided this blog is not the avenue or outlet that I dreamed it would be. I will be forever grateful for the friendships and connections I have made through this blog. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading and commenting.

Summer & Decisions

Ugh, who knew summer could be so crazy? We've not even left the house during the week and I'm going out of my mind...I can't imagine running around and actually doing stuff during the week. We've spent our days camped out inside to avoid the miserable August-like weather we've been having and finally venturing outside around 7 to play t-ball, dig in the dirt and burn off lots of excess energy.

Plus, the past 2 weekends I've hosted N's family for dinner on Sunday night and have another dinner to host this weekend. *Sigh* As much as I love having people over, I think I'm done playing hostess for a couple of weeks!

I've been noticeably absent from the blogoshere again. I've started thinking about my blog, what it means to me, the direction it's heading and what I want from it. And well, I'm stumped. I know my blog as it is, is not what I what, not what I had planned and just isn't 'fun' for me anymore. I'm not ready to throw in the towel and quit blogging completely. I do enjoy blogging, I'm just not sure what I want to blog about. It's become apparent over the past few months that "mommy" blogging just isn't what I want to do, for many different reasons, and I need to work on finding my true passion (of course this is true for my blog and my life!) So, hopefully after some more thought and more research I'll figure it out and lead my blog (either this one, or another) in that direction.

For the time being, I'll continue to post here...all my crazy, incoherent, random thoughts anyway.

Randomness & Catching Up

I'm alive. Just barely, but I am alive. We got everything moved and unpacked. We're settled, though the house is glaringly missing most decorations as when unpacking them and preparing to hang them/put them up, I decided I just don't like very many of them anymore. And who has time to find the perfect spot and hang up something they just don't love? Never mind all the time spent dusting/cleaning after it's up. So I'm on a mission to fill my house with things I love. Things I find that I just can't live without. I'm just not going to waste any more time on junk that I don't care about any more.

So far I'm thrilled with the new house. Everything works properly, the rooms are bigger (can I tell you how nice it is to have my furniture actually fit in my living room and not be shoved in the room whatever way it will fit?) The kids are loving the yard (which took 2 full tanks of gas in the riding mower to cut yesterday) as well as their new (bigger) rooms.

The past week has been spent suffering through the miserable, oppressive, humid weather. (With the heat index, it was 106 yesterday. 104 today and no end in sight anytime soon) Plus this darn sinus infection just will not go away. I wound up going back to the doctor after my viral infection was still hanging on 2 weeks later. So now I'm on antibiotics and feeling better - though still not 100%.

T passed the 4th grade. (Hooray!) We were worried because she didn't pass her reading EOG (missed it by one measly point), but she's now officially a 5th grader and will be starting her final year of elementary school in the fall. How is that even possible? To add insult to injury, P will be starting Kindergarten in the fall as well. Sigh. Can we just rewind the clock a few years?

Well, I guess that about sums it up. I'm alive and kicking. I'm back online and wasted way too much time this morning trying to catch up in my Google reader. I only had 615 unread posts - after 2 hours, I finally gave up and clicked Mark All As Read. Please don't hate me if I missed something huge on your blog. I'll be around more regularly now!

Movin' on up....

We just went and signed a lease on another house. Now comes the fun part - moving all our stuff. Hopefully that will be all accomplished this weekend. I'm hoping since we just moved 6 months ago and I did a major purge then, there won't be too much junk to sort through. After all, how much junk can a family of 5 accumulated in 6 months? Wait a minute, don't answer that. I'm afraid of the answer.

So I will be on hiatus until we get the internet turned on at the new house (hopefully sometime next week). I'll be back, provided this sinus infection, which the wonderful doctor tells me is viral so there's nothing they can do for it, doesn't kill me in the meantime. Or I don't decide to pack myself into one of these moving boxes and ship myself to Antarctica or somewhere else that it's not 90 degrees with 90% humidity, for a week or two.

Adventures in househunting

Trying to find a decent house, in a decent neighborhood, in my price range, I've learned is virtually impossible. Of course they're out there...but most have already been rented. Take for example, N's boss has a few houses that he rents. He has one that is 3 bedroom, 1 bath on a very quiet street in a good neighborhood for $200 a month less than what I'm currently paying. But the current tenants of this house have been there for 5 years and just signed another year long lease last week. Just my luck.

I'm easily frustrated, and this house hunting has not been easy. However, coming across ads like the one below do a lot to help me keep things in perspective and have a little laugh.



Your entire ad is written in Spanish, yet you still feel the need to add that you do in fact speak Spanish? How's that for redundant?