I thought it was time I come on and answer a few questions. Thank you to those of you that have gently prodded me and checked to make sure that we hadn’t fallen off the face of the earth.

I haven’t quit blogging, I’ve been on a pure exhaustion/mental health break. In May we took a trip to New York, a few days we left before the trip we made an offer on a house. We made the decision to move to the city where we’ve spent two years “temporarily”. The job opportunities here became too good to refuse and we decided to take the plunge and call it home. We looked at our house days before we left thinking it wouldn’t be what we were looking for but fell in love the moment we pulled up the driveway and knew we were making an offer within the first few minutes. Its a good thing we love this house if we knew the drama filled path buying it would bring we would have passed on it and kept some shreds of sanity.

The drama’s that surrounded the purchase of this home have all the making of a great soap opera and would have made for some great blog posts. I’ll save the saga for another post. I will say if you are self employed and are determined you can get a home loan. When Realtors say now is the time to buy they are right, what they fail to tell you is the banks don’t think now is the time to give loans. Especially on houses that are 107 years old! My husband and I have a thing for quirky houses and this house is the quirkiest we’ve lived in by far. We purchased an old farm house built in 1892 on four acres less than five minutes from where my husband works. It was a gem of a find and too good a price to pass it up. It needs work but majority of work required is cosmetic.

We moved at the end of June and the move involved getting our things from Memphis, all our household belongings out of storage in a town two hours away and everything we had in the apartment here in town. If that wasn’t enough we had to make an early occupancy deal with the previous owner since the closing was delayed. The closing ended up being delayed by 32 days, no joke.

We are slowly getting settled in and I will start blogging regularly as soon as I finish painting my little guys room, I wanted to be done with it two weeks ago!

Congratulations Kelli at Random Thoughts of a Supermom! Please contact me with your details so we can get your Crayola Wonders set out to you.

Than you to everyone that entered and tweeted about the giveaway!

How is it that 2009 is almost half way over? I remember when a year used to seem like a year, since having kids a year seems to fly by in a few months. I can’t believe its been three weeks since I last blogged, it was the quickest three weeks of my life.

My husband and I flew out to New York to pick up our RV. We bought this site unseen and were a bit nervous about it but we were more than pleasantly surprised at the condition its in. The inside has more storage space than I know what to do with and there is also tons of storage space underneath. I’m going to do minimal work to the inside, just recover the couch and reupholster the window boxes.

I have to tell you about the trip to pick up the RV; it was quite an event. Our flight to Charlotte was delayed so we missed our connecting flight to New York. Our one hour layover in New York turned into a four hour layover. I was surprised at how fast the time went at Charlotte airport, it really is nice for an airport. They have all these great rocking chairs by the windows overlooking the tarmac. We kicked back and read while waiting for our next flight.

The delay had us getting into JFK right at peak hour Memorial Day weekend. We were caught in traffic with all the people escaping the city for the weekend and it took us over 3 hours to go about 60 miles. I finally understand the saying there is no place like home. I’ve never really settled and enjoyed my nomad lifestyle but the traffic in New York made me appreciate the wonderful little piece of the world we live in.

I have lots more to blog about and a contest to announce the winner of but this will have to wait until this afternoon. I need to get the kids dressed and get them off to daycare.

Kicked back enjoying the view at Charlotte

What do you say to a friend who’s oldest child has just been diagnosed with cancer? I have been a member of an online forum for three years now. We all have two year old children born around September 2006. One of our members oldest child was just diagnosed today with a Brainstem Glioma. There are a lot of resources on the web for what not to say and some of them I really can’t believe a human being would mutter. I want to create a list for others who find themselves in the situation of trying to support a friend with a sick child. Please leave comments on what should be said and suggestions for what can be done to help a family in the same situation.

This weeks Small Talk Six at MomDot is six pieces of advice that are obvious but some people are clueless about. Really, only six? I am a pretty passive person most of the time but there
are a few things that I see when I’m out that make me try and figure out what someone is thinking. I made my list, miscounted and ended up with seven. I couldn’t make up my mind which one to take away so this week you get one extra from me.

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1. Buy pants that cover your butt crack, butt cleavage is not attractive and is reserved for plumbers only.
2. Screaming at your child in public is not the way to get them to calm down
3. Yelling at the person checking you out at Walmart over an item not ringing up is pointless. It’s not their job to check you out and manage all store inventory.
4. Getting drunk to the stage that you pee your pants is never funny nor is it attractive
5. When you are 38 years old you don’t have to tell everyone you meet that you were homecoming queen, that was 20 years ago, stop living in the past.
6. Constant negativity is not the way to win friends.
7. Do not send text messages while you are driving! In the time it takes you to look down at your phone a child could run in front of your car or the car in front of you could have to stop suddenly.