Notice

Yesterday Super Husband and I went over our plans for the next few months and picked out my last day of work. Today I went to work and told my supervisor that my last day of work will be January 10th. 

I am a little stressed about the move already, and it's still six months away. I need to find a job, a place to live, figure out the schools down there for our little Monster, etc, etc, etc. 

There are still things I want to do in this area before we leave. Time is a tickin!

Home

We got home from our vacation to see family last night. The trip home was nice and easy - no traffic jams, no car trouble. Thank goodness!
We spend four days in Wisconsin - a long four day weekend. The first night was nice - we arrived with pico ingredients and tequlia. The second day we bummbed around, took Mom's old dining room table to a resale shop, bought some stuff, went to eat at Cousins (yummmm), and then had frozen custard at Kopp's (triple yum!), went to Mayfaire, shopped around.... at this point Super Husband needed a break. Before left the mall we bought the two brats... I mean kids... new iPods for their spoiled rotten little ears. Then it was discovered that my mother locked her keys in her car Yes, I know, how spoiled they are is my fault, but I don't know how to go back and fix the situation.
The next day we worked on the farm and my mother's past life as a plantation foreman presented itself. We finished that day with a dinner at Crawdaddy's, no one  wanted to go, but everyone enjoyed it once we were there.
Monday was all about doing last minute things, pick-ups, etc and getting ready to leave bright and early Tuesday morning. Which is exactly what we did.
We all were ready to come home. The Boy slept for thirteen hours this morning. The Girl flies home to her Mommy tomorrow. In essence my life will be completely back to "normal" by the weekend. *happy sighs* <3

Iowa

We've been in Iowa for the past four days visiting Super Hubby's family. I love his sister and she is always good for a place to stay. Every time I am here I think to myself, "When I grow up I want to be just like Sister-in-Law...."

SH has had a good time visiting with the neice and nephew, friends and family. Our kids have been insanely dramatic attention-seeking drama queens, and are always ready to pop in with a tearful complaint along the way.

Tomorrow we head to Wisconsin to see my family. I am not sure how that will go - only time will tell.
The weather here has been wet and cool, but I would take wet and cool 8 days a week over hot and muggy. It is so amazingly green here. I love all of the leafy green trees and emerald green grass. This little city is about as All American as you can get. I love it. I would live here. SH still isn't interested in returning here, and I am still not sure why. I guess we will continue to look for our perfect place.

I will post some photos here soon!

Favver's Day

Today is Father's Day, or Favver's Day as my delightfully sweet baby used to say before he became a saucy and know-it-all pre-teen. I bought Super Husband his presents last weekend with both kids. This is the first time ever in recorded history that we have had both kids on Favver's Day. That alone should make it special. I bought some of SH's favorite things. I hope he likes them. I hope he doesn't mind waiting to open them until after I get home for work. I hope he doesn't mind driving 5 hours towards our midwest destination after he opens his presents.
It's Westward HO! at approximately 4 pm EST today.

Today

It is just another day. Yesterday I worked 16 hours. Today I work 8 and have to clean the house because we are going on vacation tomorrow (after another 8 hour shift) and I hate coming home to a messy house. In an effort to "help" me clean the house Super Husband did the best thing possible and made a pot of coffee, put my Harry Potter book in the CD player, took both kids and left the house. lol - he really knows how to help! This is the fastest route to a clean house.

Living a good life

New flash. January is cold.
Thank you.

Oh, and as of yesterday, I am one year older.

New Years - 2011!!

Here are some of my goals and hopes for the new year - this year - 2011. 
I plan on changing what and how we eat. DH and I watched Food Inc. last night and were shocked to say the least. By the end of the year I would really love to be a vegetarian, not because I don't like the taste of meat, because I love it, but for many other reasons. 
I want to do my first 5k by spring. 
I start school again in a few weeks. My goal there is not to quit. 
My goal is to get off of orientation or find a job that moves me closer my desired specialty in women's health. 
And, this isn't a resolution, but a prayer - that my husband gets selected and we get to move out of here this summer.


Amen.