Chaos!

Our home is in complete chaos right now! We are moving in 2 days and I have been packing like crazy! This is what our table looks like (and has been this way for the past week!):



The storage room is all in boxes too:



Last night, I packed up the girls' room. There was a pencil box left on their dresser, and this morning I went down to find this:



I packed up my son's room last week. That was pretty much a waste of time because, today, it looks like this:



Actually, it looks worse than it really is. Once I get all of his toys packed back into the toy box, it won't be near as bad. That is the downfall of trying to pack with kids in the house. They just go right behind me and unpack things. This happens with cleaning too. I hate spending my time cleaning a room just to walk out for 2 minutes, then turn around and go back in the room I just cleaned and find it in disarray! That just frustrates me to no end.

Anyway, it is supposed to be snowing Friday so that should make for an interesting move. Hopefully we will get it all done quickly and I can get my Christmas tree up this weekend!

Out of hand?

No pun intended. (Ok, maybe a little.) Has this whole thing with Clay Aiken and Kelly Ripa gone a bit extreme? I see Kelly's point, but is she blowing it a bit out of proportion? I also think that the whole thing with Rosie O'Donnell thinking that Kelly's remark (about not knowing where Clay's hand has been) was homophobic is just absurd! I don't think it had anything at all to do with that. I believe that it was truly just about germs. Your thoughts?

Stupid Acid Reflux!

Good grief! I miss one day of my Prilosec and by bed time, I am feeling the pain! Something is not right with me. This is not normal! I have a Doctor's appointment in a couple of weeks with my new family Doc. to assess my overall health. I'll definately be bringing this up. I have brought it up in the past. My previous Dr. said that it should definately be checked into if the problem doesn't go away.

It has been going on for years now. It seems to have only gotten worse with each baby I have had. I fear I will soon have to have an endoscopy to figure out what is causing my problems. Just the thought of having a camera shoved down my throat to view my stomach makes me sqirm! Ugh!

That is the main reason I am even up at this hour blogging. I cannot lay down. I can literally feel the acid sitting in my esophagus. It is horrible! It's bad enough when I am sitting up, let alone if I attempt to lay down. Anyway, I guess I will go give a try to sleeping propped up on pillows. I did that a lot when I was pregnant.

Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving was a good one. I made a corn casserole, green bean casserole, and my friend's recipe for sweet potato casserole. The sweet potatoes turned out awesome, if I do say so myself! I think I'm going to have to make that again for Christmas!

Two of my dad's sisters and their familes weren't able to make it to town this week, so we only had 22 people there (including two very cute little babies). However, they are both supposed to be coming into town next week, so we should get to see them then.

Tomorrow, neither guru nor myself have any responsibilities at church, so we may or may not sleep in. Maybe we'll make it to one of the services. Too bad this day "off" didn't come next Sunday, since we can start moving next Friday and will probably be busy with that all weekend. But, since we both need to be there next week, we'll have to take a break from moving Sunday morning.

Anyway, I'm still keeping myself busy getting ready for this move. I am anxious to get moved and settled. Usually, I get my Christmas tree and all the decorations out the day after Thanksgiving, but this year I have to wait. I'm getting ansy!

I also realize, it has been quite a while since I've posted any pictures on here. So, I will try to do that sometime soon. That is if anyone cares to see. I don't know if anyone even visits here anymore other than guru, but that's ok. I still visit all my reads. Well, enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Upward!

Well, it's Upward time again! Last night was meet the coach night. Practices start next week. I know last year I said that I was not going to coach again this year. Well, I kept my promise...almost. (Check out the last sentence in that post!)

I waited it out, even though they were announcing over and over how much they needed coaches. I decided that I would wait one more week, and if they were still in need of coaches, I would volunteer. I waited the week and by then, all the head coach positions had been filled.

However, I agreed to help my friend (Alex's wife) as her assistant coach. At least I won't be coaching alone again like I did the past two years!

Other than that, I will be attempting a new recipe for Thanksgiving. I usually make the sweet potatoes, so this year, I've decided to make it interesting! I'm getting a recipe from my friend A for her mom's sweet potato casserole that is apparently awesome! I hope I can do it justice. I'm also making a corn casserole and green bean casserole. Now I'm hungry! Just two more days!!!

OSU vs. Michigan

'Nuff said!

GO BUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bummed!

My oldest daughter came in earlier and told me she looked in the window of the new townhouse we are supposed to be moving to and that the new carpet they laid in there is gray! WHAT?! The rest of the apartment has a tan color scheme. There are a few different color schemes they use here and usually gray carpet goes with a darker countertop and tile.

I am kind of bummin' right now cause to me, gray and tan don't really go together. The walls in all the apartments are tan. All of our furniture and our bedding go with tan and clash with gray. I know they just replaced the carpet, so at least it is brand new. I don't know if I should call and see if they would be willing to switch it out for tan, or just let it go and deal with it.

I don't know how the carpet is going to look with the tan tiles and countertops in there. I don't want to seem too demanding to the people who work in the office, especially since my brother works here and they know that I'm his sister! What would you do?

Shopping

I met up with my good friend Sweetiepie on Saturday for lunch and some shopping. We had a wonderful lunch at Spageddies and then hit the stores! We shopped at Toys R Us, Big Lots (shut up, name brands @ closeout prices), Bed Bath & Beyond, Michaels, Old Navy, EB Games, and Marshalls.

After a full afternoon of shopping, we found ourselves hungry again around 7:30 p.m., so we headed to CiCi's for a cheap pizza buffet dinner. Mmm, Italian food twice in one day! Good thing I remembered my Prilosec that morning!

After dinner, we headed back to her house and hung out for about an hour filling in her hubby on all we did and all the great deals we found. It was a fun day! I'm definately looking forward to doing it again soon!!

Making a Move

We are preparing to move to a bigger townhouse here in our complex. We have been on a waiting list for quite a while now, and they finally have one available for us. We are able to move December 1st. I am excited that we should be all moved and settled in by Christmas!

I've been doing a lot of work around here the last few days trying to get everything clean and organized. I've made some excellent progress but there is still a lot to do! Most of the work has been the laundry/storage/play room. But it's pretty much ready to go now! I'm sure I will be throwing a ton of stuff out. When we moved from our house into here, I threw away many huge trash bags and boxes of stuff. I expect I'll be doing the same thing this time, only maybe not to the same extent.

I am really excited about having more cabinet space in the kitchen and a pantry. Not to mention we'll be able to fit more than one person in the kitchen at a time comfortably! We'll also be getting an extra bedroom and full bathroom in the new place. Yea!

Elections

Tomorrow is election day! And I couldn't be happier! I am so sick of seeing all of the "trash talk" commercials on t.v. and hearing them on the radio. And if I get one more freaking recorded phone call from a Senator or Laura Bush, I'm likely to reach through the phone and punch them in their recorded throat!!!! (In Jesus' name, of course!) :)

Trick or Treat

Well, we ended up going trick or treating in the rain. We headed over to Alex's house and his wife and I took the kids out with umbrellas. We only circled around to one end of the street and back the other side to their house. After that, we decided to go inside for a while since it was raining pretty good by that time.

A little while later, the rain had stopped...just in time for guru and Alex to take their turn out with the kids. When they got back, we had fun raiding their candy and discussing which candy bars are the best (Snickers is totally the best, Alex! Gotta have nuts in the candy bar!), and how Milky Ways are the retarded cousin of Snickers. Good times.


(Yummy goodness in all sizes!)