Hey guys!
We are rounding up and moving out FINALLY! The McGuire's are heading out to the country officially on Saturday at 9:00 a.m.! If you feel the urge to moving something heavy, put up pictures, arrange a kitchen or make beds come on out and help. We need all the help we can get. Believe me we have been in this house 19 years and we have more stuff to move than ever before. The good news is that we have already taken out soooooooooooo much stuff. I cleaned out all the closets today and moved all the clothes. The amount of stuff that is going to the garage sale pile is WILD! I found
4T clothes in the boys closet. Now....look at my boys and tell me...when was the last time they were in a 4T????? 3-4 years ago maybe????? I don't know how they have hidden so long in the closet. Anyway, this weekend we packed up everything we could carry and started hauling things away. Mainly, we only have the BIG items left to move plue my whole kitchen. I am going to work on packing it tomorrow. My cabinets still need to be finished before I can work on that. The guy we hired to do them does AMAZING work on an AMAZINGLY slow time table. He is the type that will always do what he says but it takes him a while to get r done. Anyway, I mainly have things already sorted out from the "getting ready to sell the house" clean up I did a couple of months ago. The rest just needs to be packed and put back in the cabinets. I went today and finished picking out all the stuff for my walls. I love being able to buy new decorations. I have had the same old things for a very long time now. I also found a comforter set at Target that will go great in my bedroom. I found the boys new ones at Wal-Mart the other day when I ran in to buy a birthday present. Don't you just love that kind of deal! It's unexpected and perfect and you didn't have to put a lot of leg work into finding it. Now, I just have to find something for Caleb's room. It's sooooo orange! I'm having a hard time figuring out what to put in there. I think maybe a solid brown and be done with it.
Which reminds me....I have several things that won't fit in my new house and would love to sell/give away/get rid of. Does anyone need a computer table.....a child's dresser with 6 drawers...pantry....metel book shelves...wooden book shelves...dresser with mirror....headboard for a Queen bed to match the dresser (needs some TLC)...rocking chair....and who knows what else. Anyway, really if you want to look at anything I have feel free. Most everything is an oak color. Anyway, let me know and I will be happy to let you have a crack at it before the big garage sale someday in the future!
Well, it's time to say prayers with the oldest of the clan. I'll leave it for now. Come by on Saturday and say hello and take a load of junk to my new house with you! Hee Hee
Love to all,
JJ
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
The Last Week
Hey everyone how is your life? Ours is good and tiring. We are pushing hard to the last weeks of school and summer is teasing us. You know the feeling....summer is just out of reach and just calling you to slow down, sit, relax...all the while you are running 100 miles an hour finishing up the rest of the year.
Friday night the Jared and Aaron got to enjoy the boys camp out at church. Brian and a group of brave men souls at the church took about 27 boys camping at the State Park. Some of the the boys lasted all night, some of them didn't. I called Brain at about 11:30 p.m. and asked him how things were going. He said his group had been asleep for about an hour! Meanwhile, me and 23 girls and brave women souls are "locked in" at the church and the party is just getting started. We stayed awake until about 3:00 a.m.! Well, we put a movie on about 1:30 a.m. and I had to stay awake to make sure no one wandered away. Most of the girls passed out immediately but I had a few that kept popping up during the movie and running back and forth to the kitchen. They stayed awake the whole time. The funny thing is...it's usually the little girls who stay awake. The 4th-6th graders usually pass out while the 1st-3rd graders giggle away into the morning. What do we do with a group of 23 girls for that long you ask??????? Here's a run down: Manicures, eat pizza, make bridal gowns from toilet paper, bible study, crafts, play mystery game, snack time, play murder in the dark, movie time and off to bed. It takes a lot of time to do all that!
After Friday's night of fun, we came home Saturday and passed out! I slept for about 3 hours and then got up and worked on my end of the year photo colleges for my kids. It took FOREVER. I did 12 individual colleges for my kids with pictures I had taken all year long. They turned out cute but I wish I had done them bigger. Some of the pictures are little bitty. Anyway, I will perfect them one day. I did them on Wal-Mart photo. It's very easy to use and it's fun. They now have scrap book pages they will print out and you can stick them in your books. I might be able to do it that way. I'm soooooo not one of those who cuts individual scraps of paper to make things cute. I just don't have the will power.
On Sunday, we went to church and then headed home to do a much needed scouring of the "selling" house. Still not much in the way of bites on selling the house. Everyday there are fliers missing from the box but not many lookers. I don't know what to think about it really. All is know is that Brian and I have a peace about it given to us by God and He will sell this house in His time. I think that's why you don't see more desperate posts and pleas from us. And let me tell you....for Brian not to be worrying about it selling is HUGE! This is the man who didn't buy me a cell phone for 3 months because he was worrying over the decision and checking out EVERY possible option. I rest in his peace and the peace God gives me also! After the cleaning, we headed out to the new house to spend the night! I still just love it there. We worked on electrical outdoor lights, and fixing the pulls on the ceiling fans and setting the toilette in the boy's bathroom. Brian got up and went to work on Monday while the boys and I slept until 9:30 a.m. We had stayed up late watching the movie "Bolt" so we slept in. Amy came out and ate lunch with the whole Herd, including the new puppy Hershey. Hershey was the calmest of the group. He slept on the kitchen floor the WHOLE time. He's the cutest chocolate lab. She brought me a computer table that I need for the new house. The one I'm using now is just too big and won't work. So I talked her and Tom out of the one they were using. It will work really well in the space!
Well, this is the last week at my school. On the schedule is water day, pizza parties, and two early dismissal days. Whoo Hoo! I'm so excited and kind of sad at the same time. I hate to think I won't see these kids anymore. Some will stay in kindergarten at the school but half of them will spread out into every elementary classes in town. I'll be sad to see my monkey's leave. I think I need to do a monkey theme next year in my room. I end up calling every class my monkey's. OK I'm officially rambling and too tired to type! Hope you have a great week! God bless and love to all!
Love,
JJ
Friday night the Jared and Aaron got to enjoy the boys camp out at church. Brian and a group of brave men souls at the church took about 27 boys camping at the State Park. Some of the the boys lasted all night, some of them didn't. I called Brain at about 11:30 p.m. and asked him how things were going. He said his group had been asleep for about an hour! Meanwhile, me and 23 girls and brave women souls are "locked in" at the church and the party is just getting started. We stayed awake until about 3:00 a.m.! Well, we put a movie on about 1:30 a.m. and I had to stay awake to make sure no one wandered away. Most of the girls passed out immediately but I had a few that kept popping up during the movie and running back and forth to the kitchen. They stayed awake the whole time. The funny thing is...it's usually the little girls who stay awake. The 4th-6th graders usually pass out while the 1st-3rd graders giggle away into the morning. What do we do with a group of 23 girls for that long you ask??????? Here's a run down: Manicures, eat pizza, make bridal gowns from toilet paper, bible study, crafts, play mystery game, snack time, play murder in the dark, movie time and off to bed. It takes a lot of time to do all that!
After Friday's night of fun, we came home Saturday and passed out! I slept for about 3 hours and then got up and worked on my end of the year photo colleges for my kids. It took FOREVER. I did 12 individual colleges for my kids with pictures I had taken all year long. They turned out cute but I wish I had done them bigger. Some of the pictures are little bitty. Anyway, I will perfect them one day. I did them on Wal-Mart photo. It's very easy to use and it's fun. They now have scrap book pages they will print out and you can stick them in your books. I might be able to do it that way. I'm soooooo not one of those who cuts individual scraps of paper to make things cute. I just don't have the will power.
On Sunday, we went to church and then headed home to do a much needed scouring of the "selling" house. Still not much in the way of bites on selling the house. Everyday there are fliers missing from the box but not many lookers. I don't know what to think about it really. All is know is that Brian and I have a peace about it given to us by God and He will sell this house in His time. I think that's why you don't see more desperate posts and pleas from us. And let me tell you....for Brian not to be worrying about it selling is HUGE! This is the man who didn't buy me a cell phone for 3 months because he was worrying over the decision and checking out EVERY possible option. I rest in his peace and the peace God gives me also! After the cleaning, we headed out to the new house to spend the night! I still just love it there. We worked on electrical outdoor lights, and fixing the pulls on the ceiling fans and setting the toilette in the boy's bathroom. Brian got up and went to work on Monday while the boys and I slept until 9:30 a.m. We had stayed up late watching the movie "Bolt" so we slept in. Amy came out and ate lunch with the whole Herd, including the new puppy Hershey. Hershey was the calmest of the group. He slept on the kitchen floor the WHOLE time. He's the cutest chocolate lab. She brought me a computer table that I need for the new house. The one I'm using now is just too big and won't work. So I talked her and Tom out of the one they were using. It will work really well in the space!
Well, this is the last week at my school. On the schedule is water day, pizza parties, and two early dismissal days. Whoo Hoo! I'm so excited and kind of sad at the same time. I hate to think I won't see these kids anymore. Some will stay in kindergarten at the school but half of them will spread out into every elementary classes in town. I'll be sad to see my monkey's leave. I think I need to do a monkey theme next year in my room. I end up calling every class my monkey's. OK I'm officially rambling and too tired to type! Hope you have a great week! God bless and love to all!
Love,
JJ
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Life is good!
Hey guys, just thought I would check in and type while I have a chance. Life is good in the household and is not calming down a bit. I didn't realize how much easier things would get after the Mother's Day Tea was over. I guess when you are in full swing you don't know what calm is until it's over. We are still working on the house a little at a time. We moved a load of stuff out on Monday night and checked out the garden space my Daddy plowed up for me. Now...you have to understand....when I asked Daddy to plow it and when we talked about where to put it...we just have a silent understanding about what and how big it was going to be. Problem is....no one let Brian in on the plans. I thought the man would have a heart attack when we saw the place Daddy plowed up. I had to just laugh! Daddy and I are used to big gardens! You know where you have about 5 or 6 of everything planted not just a few things. That way you make sure you have something that produces. I'm going to get out there and work until my fingers bleed! I love a garden! I've missed a garden! You can grow anything with city water. (No offense Tom and Amy!:)) Now.... all this being said the critter count at the new house is as follows: Ground Squirrels 1 or more, (who knows they are quick and all look the alike), rabbits 1 or more (see note about the squirrels), fire ants (too many to count), red ants (too many to count), and a small red and black snake living in the flower bed (found by Judy as she screamed and tried to dance her way out of the flower bed while swinging a hoe.) So it's ME and my garden against the critters of the Triangle. Stay tuned to see who will win!
This Friday Brian and I will be working with the church at a girls lock in and boys camp out. We take the girls 1st-6th grade and lock them into the church and scream, play, paint fingernails, do mystery plays, have bible study, and eat...eat...and eat some more. The boys load up and go to the state park for a camp out. Jared and Aaron get to go this year. Caleb is too old (AWWWWW) and has to spend the night at MeMaw's being spoiled rotten. Poor thing! I can't wait to see what Aaron gets into. Jared tried to jump over a cactus last year and fell short! Many needles later....he was fine but will NEVER try it again. Aaron,however, has not learned this lesson and will probablly jump over a cactus! It should be a hoot to hear about. Pray for Brian he is not really a camper outer! He is more a hotel and swimming pool kind of guy! If there was a way to hunt deer in a hotel he would be in heaven!
Well, I had better run off to bed now. Only 6 more days left of my school! I can't wait!!!! Life is good! Very good!
Have a blessed week! Pray for me Friday! These bones will turn 39 tomorrow and it's hard sleeping on the floor!
Love to all,
JJ
This Friday Brian and I will be working with the church at a girls lock in and boys camp out. We take the girls 1st-6th grade and lock them into the church and scream, play, paint fingernails, do mystery plays, have bible study, and eat...eat...and eat some more. The boys load up and go to the state park for a camp out. Jared and Aaron get to go this year. Caleb is too old (AWWWWW) and has to spend the night at MeMaw's being spoiled rotten. Poor thing! I can't wait to see what Aaron gets into. Jared tried to jump over a cactus last year and fell short! Many needles later....he was fine but will NEVER try it again. Aaron,however, has not learned this lesson and will probablly jump over a cactus! It should be a hoot to hear about. Pray for Brian he is not really a camper outer! He is more a hotel and swimming pool kind of guy! If there was a way to hunt deer in a hotel he would be in heaven!
Well, I had better run off to bed now. Only 6 more days left of my school! I can't wait!!!! Life is good! Very good!
Have a blessed week! Pray for me Friday! These bones will turn 39 tomorrow and it's hard sleeping on the floor!
Love to all,
JJ
Sunday, May 10, 2009
The New House Camping trip!
Hey everyone!
Sorry I have been so out of touch lately! I have heard from many of you who want to know what's going on! I love it! It makes me realize that I am not typing into the UNIVERSE! I love knowing people are actually reading the blog! OK so here is the run down.
The Mother's Day Tea at work!
Checked off the "to do" list!
Yippee Yahoo! It was on Friday and everyone had a GREAT time and everything went perfect. The kids were cute, the parents gushed over everything, and the whole thing was wonderful! After all the work, sweat, blood, and sore muscles I'm glad it's over. However, the party diva in me is already planning next years tea, even though we have talked about stopping after this year.
The New House:
We got a wild hair on Friday and after a brief nap after work, we loaded up and headed to the new house to spend the night! It was so much fun. We piled the back of the van full of stuff and went on a curtain hunt before heading out. I found the curtains at Wal-mart and Lowe's. OUCH! Curtain prices are high! Now, I know why I have the cheap mini blinds in the old house. However, I really wanted curtains in the new house so we bit the bullet and bought them. Now.......what comes after buying the curtains. IRONING THE DOG OUT OF THEM! We went down to Me-Maw's house (the boys rode their bikes) and spent about an hour and a half or more IRONING! Yuck! Me-maw then loaned us her air mattress' for the boys to sleep on and we went back to the house the blew them up. Everyone piled in the living room and we watched Indian Jones and had a great movie night. Of course, we had already taken our old queen size mattress set out and set in up in Caleb's room for him, so we slept on that. Caleb is on a twin bed currently and is about to fall out of it. He is about one inch shorter (maybe 5'7 by now) than me and weighs about 165 or so. So needless to say he needs a bigger bed! On Saturday, we watched I Love Lucy tapes and had a quiet morning and then Judy cooked us lunch. After lunch, we mowed, worked on the shower, toilets, and cleaned. So far we only have to fix one toilet that leaks, get the kitchen cabinets finished, and put up a fence for Peanut. We are looking at moving VERY soon. After being out there this weekend, we are spoiled and want to live there. It's quiet and so cool. I opened the whole house on Saturday and didn't turn on the air once! I love windows that open without getting a hernia!!!!!!
Other than wrapping up the end of the school year not much else is going on. I have 2 weeks left and the boys have 3 weeks left. I can't wait!!!! My kids are starting to read now and it's so much fun to watch them sound out words! They give me chill bumps when they start figuring it all out!
Well, I had better run. I will post pictures of the Mother's Day Tea Decorations soon. Right now I need to pull my worksheets for next week!
Love to all,
JJ
Riding to Me Maw's. Yes! Little Bit Aaron did it too! He made it the whole way! Even on the tiny bike. He won't ride his big one for some reason!
Camping on the floor watching a late night movie!
Getting out the air mattress to camp out in the living room floor.
The kid's bathroom. The floor is really cute!
Caleb's Hook em Horns room. No the quilt won't stay. I think it's too much!
Jared and Aaron's bedroom and curtains.
Our bedroom curtains. The ALVACADO room is really a warm color. I like it more and more each time I go out there.
Living Room curtains. No...the room isn't as orange as the picture looks. It's just the camera. It's a tan color.
Curtains over the French Door. I can pull them at night and then open them during the day and see out the beautiful doors.
Aaron playing the favorite game of the new living room "rolling races"!
Jared in the Living Room getting ready to unpack!
Sorry I have been so out of touch lately! I have heard from many of you who want to know what's going on! I love it! It makes me realize that I am not typing into the UNIVERSE! I love knowing people are actually reading the blog! OK so here is the run down.
The Mother's Day Tea at work!
Checked off the "to do" list!
Yippee Yahoo! It was on Friday and everyone had a GREAT time and everything went perfect. The kids were cute, the parents gushed over everything, and the whole thing was wonderful! After all the work, sweat, blood, and sore muscles I'm glad it's over. However, the party diva in me is already planning next years tea, even though we have talked about stopping after this year.
The New House:
We got a wild hair on Friday and after a brief nap after work, we loaded up and headed to the new house to spend the night! It was so much fun. We piled the back of the van full of stuff and went on a curtain hunt before heading out. I found the curtains at Wal-mart and Lowe's. OUCH! Curtain prices are high! Now, I know why I have the cheap mini blinds in the old house. However, I really wanted curtains in the new house so we bit the bullet and bought them. Now.......what comes after buying the curtains. IRONING THE DOG OUT OF THEM! We went down to Me-Maw's house (the boys rode their bikes) and spent about an hour and a half or more IRONING! Yuck! Me-maw then loaned us her air mattress' for the boys to sleep on and we went back to the house the blew them up. Everyone piled in the living room and we watched Indian Jones and had a great movie night. Of course, we had already taken our old queen size mattress set out and set in up in Caleb's room for him, so we slept on that. Caleb is on a twin bed currently and is about to fall out of it. He is about one inch shorter (maybe 5'7 by now) than me and weighs about 165 or so. So needless to say he needs a bigger bed! On Saturday, we watched I Love Lucy tapes and had a quiet morning and then Judy cooked us lunch. After lunch, we mowed, worked on the shower, toilets, and cleaned. So far we only have to fix one toilet that leaks, get the kitchen cabinets finished, and put up a fence for Peanut. We are looking at moving VERY soon. After being out there this weekend, we are spoiled and want to live there. It's quiet and so cool. I opened the whole house on Saturday and didn't turn on the air once! I love windows that open without getting a hernia!!!!!!
Other than wrapping up the end of the school year not much else is going on. I have 2 weeks left and the boys have 3 weeks left. I can't wait!!!! My kids are starting to read now and it's so much fun to watch them sound out words! They give me chill bumps when they start figuring it all out!
Well, I had better run. I will post pictures of the Mother's Day Tea Decorations soon. Right now I need to pull my worksheets for next week!
Love to all,
JJ
Riding to Me Maw's. Yes! Little Bit Aaron did it too! He made it the whole way! Even on the tiny bike. He won't ride his big one for some reason!
Camping on the floor watching a late night movie!
Getting out the air mattress to camp out in the living room floor.
The kid's bathroom. The floor is really cute!
Caleb's Hook em Horns room. No the quilt won't stay. I think it's too much!
Jared and Aaron's bedroom and curtains.
Our bedroom curtains. The ALVACADO room is really a warm color. I like it more and more each time I go out there.
Living Room curtains. No...the room isn't as orange as the picture looks. It's just the camera. It's a tan color.
Curtains over the French Door. I can pull them at night and then open them during the day and see out the beautiful doors.
Aaron playing the favorite game of the new living room "rolling races"!
Jared in the Living Room getting ready to unpack!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Oh yeah!
It took 2 coats of Kilz to cover the BLUE bathroom and two coats of the ALVACADO (inside joke with Amy who LOVING refers to it as poop green)green paint to cover the kilz!
I just decided to replace all the plugs, plug covers, light switches, and light switch covers because the had so much blue and turquoise paint on them! Oh yeah that should have been on the list. Brian finished them up today! Check!
I just decided to replace all the plugs, plug covers, light switches, and light switch covers because the had so much blue and turquoise paint on them! Oh yeah that should have been on the list. Brian finished them up today! Check!
Pant, Pant, Pant.... Whew! It's been a wild couple of weeks!
Hi Everyone,
I can't believe it's been so long since I have checked in. Can you guess what I have been doing? One of the last posts I wrote stated "I have a Key". Well, that key worked and opened up a WHOLE new can of worms. Not really a can of worms but another remodeling project but, this time it's fun and exhausting all at the same time. As I sit here and write this here are the updates....
New House (Formally known as the Triangle House)
Picked out paint and bought at least 10 gallons of it in various shades!
Painted EVERY wall in the house!
Painted EVERY closet in the house!
Painted EVERY shelf in the house!
Watered dead and dying grass and trees until they now are not dead!
Fixed the air conditioner!
Fixed the hot water heater!
Mowed yard twice!
Dug up flower bed!
Piled up bunches of stray rocks!
Filled in holes around the yard!
Scheduled cabinets to be sanded, striped, and restained. (Starts Monday night)
Scheduled all flooring to go down Tuesday!
Old House:
Fixed roof leak caused by removing cable antenna from roof
Painted ceiling in bathroom to cover leaking spots
Kept house COMPLETELY spotless for 1 and 1/2 months!
Had two open houses to show off spotless house! No takers yet!
Work:
Made 12 Place mats for Mother's Day Tea.
Made 12 Invitations to Mother's Day Tea.
Painted 12 presents for Mother's Day Tea.
Made 12 picture frames for Mother's Day Tea.
Still have to make 12 corsages for Mother's Day Tea.
Still have to decorate the stage for the Mother's Day Tea.
Church:
Planning a Lock-In for ??????# of giggling girls. Had 20 or so last year.
Have to paint boats and build sails for the yacht races at AWANA's by Wednesday.
Went to Buncho night to destress from my crazy life.
Planning Children's Camp 2009 to happen in June for 30 plus kids.
OK. now you know why I wrote Pant, Pant, Whew! I can't even keep up with myself at this point. I told Mindy, my boss, the other day that it seems like I am living two different lives right now. The hard working employee and the crazed remodeler! I swear if someone asks me to make a decision about paint colors anymore that I will have a melt down and start sucking my thumb! Hee Hee!
Other than the above the kids are doing great. Caleb finished up 3 days worth of TAKS testing last week. He takes the dyslexia bundled test so they spread his Reading test over two days. Jared took his final Math TAKS on Tuesday. He is glad it's over. So am I! I really can't wait for this year to be over. I have so much else going on that school is getting in the way. The boys are so ready for it all to be finished also. However, the homework has gotten better after the TAKS so maybe everything settle down.
We hope to move to the country sometime in May. You are all invited to come! Hee Hee! I would like to move the last week in May because the kids are still in school but my school finishes a week earlier. That would give us a whole week to get set up while no rug rats are around. They have really been helpful though. Caleb busted up several places of stray concrete around the new house and hauled it off. He then dug dirt out of the field and filled in the large holes. Jared and Caleb have also been able to ride their bikes to Me Maw and Granddad's house about 1.2 miles away. I didn't think they would make it. I just knew Caleb would call to have me come and pick them up on the side of the road. They also did it when the wind was blowing about 25 miles an hour! I'm really pretty proud of those country boys!
Well, I had better get some sleep. Friday is the big Mother's Day Tea! I'll need my strength!
Love to all
JJ
PS Hey go check out Amy's website to see the pictures of my new house. She helped paint one day and took pictures. Mine are horrible! Click on her "herd" blog at the side and go see!
I can't believe it's been so long since I have checked in. Can you guess what I have been doing? One of the last posts I wrote stated "I have a Key". Well, that key worked and opened up a WHOLE new can of worms. Not really a can of worms but another remodeling project but, this time it's fun and exhausting all at the same time. As I sit here and write this here are the updates....
New House (Formally known as the Triangle House)
Picked out paint and bought at least 10 gallons of it in various shades!
Painted EVERY wall in the house!
Painted EVERY closet in the house!
Painted EVERY shelf in the house!
Watered dead and dying grass and trees until they now are not dead!
Fixed the air conditioner!
Fixed the hot water heater!
Mowed yard twice!
Dug up flower bed!
Piled up bunches of stray rocks!
Filled in holes around the yard!
Scheduled cabinets to be sanded, striped, and restained. (Starts Monday night)
Scheduled all flooring to go down Tuesday!
Old House:
Fixed roof leak caused by removing cable antenna from roof
Painted ceiling in bathroom to cover leaking spots
Kept house COMPLETELY spotless for 1 and 1/2 months!
Had two open houses to show off spotless house! No takers yet!
Work:
Made 12 Place mats for Mother's Day Tea.
Made 12 Invitations to Mother's Day Tea.
Painted 12 presents for Mother's Day Tea.
Made 12 picture frames for Mother's Day Tea.
Still have to make 12 corsages for Mother's Day Tea.
Still have to decorate the stage for the Mother's Day Tea.
Church:
Planning a Lock-In for ??????# of giggling girls. Had 20 or so last year.
Have to paint boats and build sails for the yacht races at AWANA's by Wednesday.
Went to Buncho night to destress from my crazy life.
Planning Children's Camp 2009 to happen in June for 30 plus kids.
OK. now you know why I wrote Pant, Pant, Whew! I can't even keep up with myself at this point. I told Mindy, my boss, the other day that it seems like I am living two different lives right now. The hard working employee and the crazed remodeler! I swear if someone asks me to make a decision about paint colors anymore that I will have a melt down and start sucking my thumb! Hee Hee!
Other than the above the kids are doing great. Caleb finished up 3 days worth of TAKS testing last week. He takes the dyslexia bundled test so they spread his Reading test over two days. Jared took his final Math TAKS on Tuesday. He is glad it's over. So am I! I really can't wait for this year to be over. I have so much else going on that school is getting in the way. The boys are so ready for it all to be finished also. However, the homework has gotten better after the TAKS so maybe everything settle down.
We hope to move to the country sometime in May. You are all invited to come! Hee Hee! I would like to move the last week in May because the kids are still in school but my school finishes a week earlier. That would give us a whole week to get set up while no rug rats are around. They have really been helpful though. Caleb busted up several places of stray concrete around the new house and hauled it off. He then dug dirt out of the field and filled in the large holes. Jared and Caleb have also been able to ride their bikes to Me Maw and Granddad's house about 1.2 miles away. I didn't think they would make it. I just knew Caleb would call to have me come and pick them up on the side of the road. They also did it when the wind was blowing about 25 miles an hour! I'm really pretty proud of those country boys!
Well, I had better get some sleep. Friday is the big Mother's Day Tea! I'll need my strength!
Love to all
JJ
PS Hey go check out Amy's website to see the pictures of my new house. She helped paint one day and took pictures. Mine are horrible! Click on her "herd" blog at the side and go see!
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