A Year of Change

This morning Lori and I are headed back up to her doctors for an MRI and then an appointment. Her neck is giving her problems again (headache) ever since she painted the basement about 3 or 4 weeks ago. We’re hoping it’s not another disc that needs to be fused. If it is, I think we’re just going to go all in and fuse the remaining 3 or 4 all at once, just like Peyton Manning.  Say a prayer or knock on wood or whatever you do so maybe we don’t have to have another round of surgery. It’s funny as we just paid off her hospital bill a few months ago. I don’t even want to think about the cost again, hell, the MRI is killing me!

I cleaned up the kitchen and lower breakfast area yesterday as it was a mess. The kitchen looks pretty good, all nice and white. We need to keep working away one day at a time.

The boys are fine, only like 11 days of school left, wow. Time to run as we need to be at the hospital for check in by 9:15. Take care and God Bless.

It’s 6:28 and I’m supposed to be on a call with the east coast so no time this morning. Jag’s in the shower, Ty’s sleeping and Lori is making breakfast. They cancelled our ball game last night saying the fields were still too wet so no baseball, again! We do have one Thursday though and all looks good for that one.

Another earthquake in Nepal, a 4 pointer in Dallas and two in California over the past few days. Sure glad we don’t live in tornado or earthquake country. The boys and I made a trip to the storage unit yesterday. I’m trying to move a little bit at a time and hopefully sooner rather than later, things will start to get cleaned out around here. You wouldn’t believe all the stuff we’ve purged and yet we still have such a long way to go.

Time to run, hope you all are well, God Bless.

That’s right, we have not enough time, for housework, homework, cooking, cleaning or even sleep! Forget about playing or doing much of anything fun, we can barely get through the day doing chores. We need a professional organizer to come in!

Today after school we have baseball, assuming the fields are in shape. Ty let us know at 10pm last night that he thinks his mural (about 8 feet by 4 feet) depicting a court room in the 1700’s, is due today! He brought home a blank canvas Friday but told me then he thought is was due Tuesday. So we’re not sure when it’s due but Mom and Ty are getting on it right now. Funny thing is this is all extra credit, he volunteered to do it!

We did get the mud room and its shelves cleaned out and boxed up yesterday. Lori did some work in the guest room too. Our neighbors the O’Connell’s house is under contract for $515,000! This is great news as they’re smaller than us, plus we have more curb appeal, which I guess is a big part of buyers feelings. So we’ll keep working away.

Guess I’ll run as I have a lot to do today. As I said earlier, I just don’t know how I’ll get it all done. I guess I’ll just take it one minute at a time, God Bless.

Well they were right, it did snow. Here at the house we have 3, maybe 4 inches of wet heavy snow. I’ve already been outside to knock it off some tree limbs that are laying over touching the ground. I don’t think any broke but it’s hard to tell until it melts. Now it’s supposed to melt and be in the mid 70’s by this time next week.

Yesterday I finished painting the basement and the wine cellar and Lori cleaned upstairs but we have a long way to go. Ty went to Jump Street with his friend Jack and Jag and I went downtown to get our haircuts.

Today we’re going to try to get to church and then the Mothers Day festivities will begin. Now to tell the truth, we really aren’t doing anything around here. I’ll stop up and see my Mom but she’s going down to Tom and Ali’s for dinner. Happy Mothers Day to Dixie and Annette too! I’m sure Lori will be calling you sometime today.

Mojo ate one of my favorite cowboy boots last night, super. He might just be headed back into his crate. I don’t think he likes us blocking him out of the living room as he can’t get up on the couch but if he keeps this up, he’ll be sleeping in the garage. He has plenty of food, water and toys to play with so no excuses on cowboy boots!

That’s it, Happy Mothers Day again, God Bless.

It’s been raining now for 8 days and while that in no way approaches 40 days and 40 nights, there’s a lot of water. I had to dig ditches in our front garden yesterday along with big pits to funnel the water away from the houses foundation. So far we have no water in the basement but I haven’t been downstairs this morning. I’m praying we get through this storm, which should culminate with snow tomorrow, with no damage. If and when we get a new house, I’m going to really take a look at the drainage around the house.

Baseball of course was cancelled again and we’ll try again on Monday. We sure have a lot of games to make up.

Today we’re determined to clean up and out, the spare room, Ty’s room, the mud room and its closet. We look at houses everyday on the internet and decided we have to have at least an acre or two. The way the economy is going and all the food recalls (milk, chickens, eggs, etc.) we need a place where we can have a good garden and at least a few chickens. We’d like to have sort of a mini farm. Another requirement is that it’s not north facing, has at least 4000 square feet and it’d be great if it had some water. It’s fun to look but we still haven’t found anything that’s in our price range. We’ll keep looking though. My Mom’s would be perfect but I don’t think she wants us all moving in!

So that’s about it. Cleaning up inside and keeping the water away from the house outside.

Dixie and Annette, your Mothers Day cards will be late. Lori did get them last Tuesday but I somehow forgot to mail them as they’re still in the visor of my truck. She mentioned it last night or I’d probably wouldn’t have found them until Christmas, sorry!

Have a good day and we’ll talk tomorrow. God Bless.

We’re not sure if we’ll get our baseball game in this afternoon. Yesterday about an hour away they had 3 or 4 inches of hail and up in the mountains, 5 or 6 inches of snow. It rained hard here last night, hard enough to wake you up. We’ll see what happens today but tomorrow we know for sure we’re getting more of the wet stuff.

Ty had his audition for the talent show and was a DJ. He was nervous but he did well. I was proud of him for coming up with it on his own and then going in and performing solo.

Today Lori will hopefully take off a half of day, but we’ll see how the day goes. It’s muddy out so every time Mojo comes in, we have to vacuum. That’s about it, have a good day, God Bless.

That’s what they say. This shouldn’t be too surprising as it snowed on Mothers Day last year as well. We can’t complain though as last night in Oklahoma there were lots of tornados with more on the way. Whatever weather we get, people east of us get it a day or two later. I don’t know how people live in tornado country. I guess if you’re born there, you live there.

Today Ty has the talent show auditions after school. He’s going to be a DJ using Mom’s computer. We’ll see how it goes. Baseball practice was cancelled last night due to the weather. We must have missed at least 4 games so far this year which we’ll need to make up.

Throw in lots of work and there you have it. Hope everyone is well, God Bless.

Baseball was rained out as was just about everything else around here. I had to dig a ditch out front to keep all the water away from the foundation of the house. We get a little break today and then it’s back through next Monday they say.

We all went for a burger last night for dinner around 6:30. Then we were in bed a few hours later. Speaking of bed, it’s so hard to get out of bed these days, we must be getting older. Today we all have more of the same, more work and more school and more rain. Not sure if we’ll have practice tonight or not. Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be the heaviest days of rain with inches each day. Trust me, an inch of rain is a lot of water.

I’ve been off coffee for about 5 days now but not sure it’s making much of a difference. Lori though is sitting right next to me drinking a cup as I write.

Mothers Day is Sunday, wow, it never stops. Guess I’ll run as it’s now 6:30 and we have lots to do. Hope you all are well, times just flying by these days, take care and God Bless.

Another holiday, lucky we don’t drink as this is a tequila day. Yesterday we really didn’t do much for Lori’s birthday as we had  baseball until 6 and Lori had a busy day at work and also was home around 6. She was going to try to get off early but one of her girls had to put her cat down so she didn’t come in. Tonight we have a game at 5pm if we don’t get rained out, we’ll see.

It’s 6:40 now meaning we’re once again late. Thanks for all the comments yesterday, Lori appreciated it. She also had something like 50 people wish her Happy Birthday on Facebook. All in all though it was just another day. We did have cake but will celebrate this weekend when it’s Mothers Day.

Time to run as Ty has inter-murals at 7. God Bless

Today is Lori’s birthday! Whoo hoo! Not much going on, she’s trying to take a half a day off but we’ll see. I need to get her a cake but we have baseball practice at 4pm until 6 tonight so same old, same old.

We rented a storage unit yesterday that’s close by. We moved 4 boxes and two racks into it but that was it. So we’re still moving forward around here, one step at a time.

It’s 6:40 now so time to go, hope everyone is well, take care and God Bless.