HMMMM.....Needed alittle spring cleaning, the page I mean...the house will come later(believe me!
Instead of adding on like we have been planning...since we moved in....TWO long years ago....we decided to hang on to our precious tax returns, after paying off those nasty credit cards...damn things!
SO the new plan of action is to build an illegal attic space(shhh, don't tell) the attic space will house all of the toys that accompany having four kids....I don't seem to be able to throw them out, they just accumulate......
At any rate it will allow us to fix the good van so we have reliable transportation again! (thank God!)
Basically the new plan consists of playing musical furniture and moving the couch and TV into the existing kitchen, and moving the existing kitchen(and its contense) into the existing laundry room...and moving the washer and dryer to the other side of where it is now....THEN we can move ALL of the toys into the attic, AND the kid's bed to where our bed is now, and OUR bed to where theres is....FOLLOW???
Its OK...there won't be a test....I hope well survive! I think it will be a VERY LONG weekend!
Also for school today the very nice and well meaning librarian took half of the class(me included) and shuffled us into the computer lab and proceeded to bore us all to death by teaching us 'computer skills' that 90% of us already knew....UG!!! SOO glad to be outta there!
Anyway, wish us luck on the house-rearranging! (why do I get myself into these things....) I feal like LUCY ........LUCY YOU GOT SOME 'SPLANEN TO DO!.......

thought it was cute...

MOMMY BRAIN

If you've left the crayons to melt in the car,
And forgotten just where the car keys are,
There's a perfectly good way to explain:
You see, you've come down with "Mommy Brain."

When you're not sure where the past 8 hours went,
Or whether the phone bill check's been sent,
If you've left the laundry drying in the rain,
It's just---you guessed it---Mommy Brain.

If you find yourself chatting for hours on end
About diaper prices with your cyberfriends,
You've just caught a particularly virulent strain
Of that affliction known as Mommy Brain.

If you left your bags at the grocery store
Or completely forgot what you went there for,
If you called the cat by your baby's name,
You can bet that Mommy Brain's to blame.

And if you know the words to "Goodnight Moon" by heart, Or you study your sleeping babe like a work of art, If you're always surprised by how time is flying,
And the thought of that first birthday starts you crying...

It's unavoidable girls, and I feel your pain
For I, too, suffer from Mommy Brain.
But I'll admit one thing---of this I'm sure
I hope they never find a cure.

- Carlotta Eike Stankiewicz

Hello MeadowLark...

Sorry for being MIA so long...it just seems like we can't catch a break this year....(last year?) We went from my husband being laied off, to him being in the hospital, to BOTH of our piece of crap cars breaking down on the same day...what are the odds of that???
That is the equivilant of winning the lottery for bad luck, rite?

I could play the "economy screwed me" card... but the truth of it is, we knew it would be hard when we moved in to this two bedroom house with FOUR kids...and we knew that we paid too much money for it...we just neivley hoped that next year would be better....
well, that was two years ago, and suffice to say, it has not gotten better for ANYONE.

I have taken action though! I have enrolled in Stephens Henneger College, for nursing classes!(go me!)
So at least when the world goes to crap...I will be able to take care of someone I love....

Anyway...I still think of my internet buddies, I felt like I was a part of something...even if I was just sitting here all day reading about everyone'elses mis-adventures...So MeadowLark... Please forgive me for being a flaky girl...I am OH SO BUSY....just like everyone else is I am sure....:)
Just had a miniute thought I would say HI!