I'll be visiting MV more often soon....
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I'll be visiting MV more often soon....
My playroom is officially gone now. I turn in the keys at 2pm today. Praying I get my full deposit back.
I am so SORE from moving everything and now it sits in my living room, kitchen and nook. SO MUCH STUFF even after selling or giving away much of it.
We are going on vacation for a week, and I am having a HUGE HUGE yard sale that includes playroom stuff and stuff from the house. And when that is all gone (giving away whatever doesn't sell), we are redoing our house. Painting some walls, getting Critter out of our bedroom (OMG, he is three now. I swore he would be in his own room by age 2). And once that is done, we are starting our room addition. DH is even thinking about going up!!! I am so excited. I want a big room upstairs that is just that: a big room. I'll figure out what to do with it later.
Off to lunch now. It ia also my last day babysitting, as the little girl is moving the week we are on vacation. So not only will I have more time to do "FUN PLAY STUFF" I will be penniless to do it. What timing! UGH.
Say a prayer for us in deposit back, yard sale, and finding a new child to babysit.
Have a wonderful wonderful day!!!
Thanks for the update, Dana. Sorry you had to give the playroom up but more time with family and your mom. How is she doing, btw?
Dana, if you give away stuff that doesn't sell, try giving it to Vol. of America, or Goodwill, or some place where you can use the tax deduction on next year's return.
Where are you going on vacation?
We have a place on the Withlacoochee River. No TV, no phone, pretty much nothing to do but spend time with each other. It is the only time my two kids play nicely together without hitting or kicking or screaming.
We are giving the yard sale left overs to "the kidney foundation" They come here to collect which is very nice. I've heard good things about them, so I feel comfortable donating to them.
Transitions are tough! (((Dana)))
Our week (turned out to be just a few days) turned out awful!
We got there just fine. We stayed home on Fri so that we could get everything done before heading out. So we left on Sat. Had a nice time, but a 3 ft baby gator kept showing up everytime the kids tried to go fishing from the dock. Needless to say, they caught nothing. DD snagged and lost her hook 4 times and I just got tired of tying a new one on and quit.
Sun, MIL came to visit, and I sent the kids home with her for the night. I have issues with this, but figure one night, only 15 min away could be fine, so I just bit my tongue and sent them on their way. Besides, the idea of being alone with DH was very tempting. Had a great night Sunday even though it rained. I woke early Mon morning to find no water coming out of the sink. The well pump was running, so I woke DH to the bad news. The pump was not working and was over heating, even the PVC was melting. DH can literally fix EVERYTHING, so he insisted on finding the problem.
He was suppose to be heading home/to work Monday afternoon, and this was NOT in the plan. So he took the entire pump apart and found the problem way deep in the inards of the pump housing. He will need to buy a new part. The day is almost gone now. He still has not put the new A/C into the wall of the mobile home. So he decides to stay late and do it.....already in a bad mood.
I was ready to leave since there was no water, but stuck around incase he needed me for something. In the mean time I load the van I borrowed from my mother. DH drove his truck up. I have EVERYTHING loaded, and was ready to go to MIL to get the kids. DH says "can you take the garbage?" I comment that is a truck thing, not for inside the car. He wants it to go to MIL cause she has the garbage pickup the following morning. So, with keys in hand I grab the huge bag with my arthretic hands. Tell DH goodbye and proceede to the car with both my keys and Mom's car key. I put my keys down where I keep them, and there is NO CAR KEY!!! It's been raining on me for the last hour, and now I can't find the key to drive home....a borrowed key at that.
I spend the next several hours, it was 5:45p when I lost them, walking in and out of the rain. It just gets darker. The kids are expecting my call at 6pm re: them staying another night at MIL but I can't call because my phone only works once I have driven a few miles up the road. DH is cussing at the AC going in, cutting himself as well, just not a good day over all. I'm in tears because I've lost my mother's keys, the type w/ the remote that you can't just remake. And I am stressing over the kids, or at least DD 10yrs old, worrying about me.
I unpack and repack the van 3 times looking. I go thru all the bags/boxes/suitcases and the garbage at least three times. I have walked the property countless times. It was awful. It is around 8pm now, and I tell DH to just head home and call the kids to explain the situation. I stayed at the river and watched a couple DVD movies while sleeping on and off thru the night. As soon as it was bright enough to see, I returned to my search. After about 15 minutes, I look AGAIN in the area that I put the garbage bag. And there in the box behind the seat that had the garbage, I easily see the keys. Now why didn't I see them the night before????? I looked OVER AND OVER AND OVER in that area all night.
So I grabbed the last of the stuff, reloaded the van and headed home 2 days early. DD was upset about being stuck at MIL for two nights instead of one. MIL is commenting on how much she wishes the kids were with her more often (which I hate doing to begin with) and is already making her own plans about having them come back again to her house. DD complained for a few miles about how she didn't get to go fishing except for one day. She didn't get to spend the week at the river like I had promised (this week was suppose to be celebrating my time off of work now, so it was a big deal). She told me some things that I wish I could change about their visit at MIL, but nothing to really get bent out of shape over....just not MY way of doing things. And then she tells me that MIL told her to "get rid of" the paper I gave DD before they headed out. It was a paper with IN CASE OF EMERGANCY information on it. ALl our names and numbers, the kids DOB, my moms number, MIL name etc. Here we are at the mobile home with no phone access and MY kids are traveling around with MIL. They could be with my MY mom, and I would still feel the same way. If something were to happen while in her car or walking in a city we don't live in, how would the rescue team know anything about them? At least they could call my mother and she could say we were at the river with no phone. So DD knowing me well, hid the paper in her shoe rather than keeping it in her purse where MIL told her to take it from. ARGHHHHH.
And now we are home, the house is still in shambles with all my playroom stuff in every inch. The kids are bored and I have more laundry than I know what to do with.
I'm hoping the yard sale offers me some relief, but I don't think it will. I have GOT TO get rid of this stuff!!!
I can't wait to have things almost normal again.
{{{{{{{{{{{{{Dana}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
I'm so sorry. :-(
Breathe............................
Oh wow! Not a good vacation!! Sounds like our trip to the lake last year. The 2nd night we were there, we got 19 inches of rain, so the lake house we rented flooded. We were lucky to even get out because a lot of low water crossings were not passable.
Hang in there. Soon things will get back to normal. {{{{{hugs}}}}}
That stinks! You need a vacation after your vacation!
Agree with Annie... Hopefully things will calm down and get worked out quickly.. Good luck selling the stuff.
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