just an update....

so the kids have been in school for a couple weeks now... i am really starting to enjoy time without them. it gives me a nice break in the day where i dont have to listen to them fight or whine or complain or anything else that manages to happen in that time period. i feel like sometimes it's too short though. i do look forward to monday's quiet a bit. i think listening to the kids fight all weekend drives me crazy. i am not sure what i am going to do when they're out of school for a couple days and summer well... i'll probably go crazy once again. then again maybe it wont be so bad. i know when TJ is in school all day i am going to be finding me a part time job a few hours during the day. nothing special just something to bring in some extra money each time i get paid... i will be there when the kids get out of school and i will be there to take them to school. i would love to teach evan how to walk to school on his own but i'm not sure if he'll be old enough. course i was walking to school by myself when i was in kindergarten but i also only had one street to cross and had a crossing gaurd that made sure we made it across ok. i dont really have that option for this school. :-/ the crossing guard yes but not at the corner that i want and well honestly... there are just a lot of streets between here and the school and no flipping sidewalks. i have decided though next year i am going to enjoy a few days to myself before i go back to work. i also decided that the summer they are going to be enrolled in a daycamp somewhere for most of the summer. that will make it so i can still get some hours in. i am not worried about next year right now though. i am more worried about making it through this year. these last few months have been nothing but stress over here and everytime we get caught up from doing something something else happens and sets us back even more. i think the fact that kirt is unhappy with his job doesnt help matters. i am hoping that he is off friday he can get some stuff done. i'd love to see him go work for somewhere else and maybe even find more pay and maybe even medical benefits would be a huge plus! i'd love to not have to pay out of pocket for our insurance how we are now... well as much as we are now i guess would be a better way to put it. he is considering going to aldi's and applying. they are offering manager positions at like 20$ an hour?! he could do that how much different is it running a grocery store then a sub shop? really?... a cashier position would even be good if he gets enough hours. they get 11 something an hour and both positions come with awesome healthcare. he was telling me they offer regular healthcare as well as dental and vision! we could so use the dental and vision. i'd love to have a pair of glasses. i havent had glasses since 05... the dental, well i have a tooth that needs to be pulled and i have teeth that need work although i'd almost rather have them rip them out and give me false teeth at this point. :-/ my teeth hurt so much already. i am looking forward to tax time. i am glad that we dont have a lot of debt or anything. i am looking forward to filling the new deepfreeze we got! well new to us... it is a 14.8cu ft Frigidaire deep freeze. holds up to 525lbs of food... best part, we're only paying 100$ for it whenever we can aford it so we can pay little payments!!! SWEET!!!!!!! they're not cheap suckers... they're over 400$ for a brand new one... this one has some rust in the bottom from scratches but nothing serious. you can spray some stuff on it and be good to go. i'm flipping stoked!!!! i always put around 800-1000 towards groceries/household items when it gets to be tax time and i am glad i do it every year and i think kirt is too. we get like 3,000 at least usually from taxes and to take that much and put it towards food and stuff for the house he doesnt even care... he looks forward to it as much as i do i think. it's the one time in the year i REALLY get to stock up on stuff and it lasts 4-5 months depending on how we eat it... sometimes even longer sometimes not so long. i stock up not only on food but toliet paper, laundry soap, papertowels, stuff like that too... i'll probably stock up on cat food and of course cat litter and we have dog stuff we can get... plus we're setting aside a good chunk for a trip to colorado in dec 2011. you know how nice it's going to be to go to colorado? we have never really been on a family vacation in any other state other then iowa and mo so yes i am looking forward to a good family vacation. plus i wanna see my sister. eventually i would love to go to disney world and see my sister and brother in GA but for the time being colorado would be awesome. were going to go see the zoo while we're there and go skiing!!! (although i bet i'm going to be on the bunny hills with at least tj, i bet evan would love to go with kirt down the other hills...) we're only going to be able to go for a few days... we're sticking shelby in a boarding place while we're gone. i think we're going to stick her in a place that one of my friends recomended. she stuck her dog there and this lady has like 25acres of land and treats the dogs like they're her own... and it's only like 30$ a day? i wont complain... i think we're going to drive... its 9 hours from us but i think we'll live... we might even see if his parents want to join us out there maybe they can meet at least someone from my family! we have been together for 7 years and they have yet to meet any of my family. :| i've been trying to talk my mom into coming down for christmas and my dad to join her but they more n likley wont come. :| i dont know what else to do. i want my parents to meet his parents so bad but it doesnt seem like it's going to happen anytime soon... maybe if they can find the extra money and time they'll come out to colorado with us and at least meet my sister. i am sure my sister would love to meet them even if it feels like my parents never will. :-/ i do know that the day my kids walk across the stage my parents will be here for that! i am not letting them miss that big day. it will be one of the biggest in their lives and there is no way i'm letting them miss out on it.