Angry, upset and many other things. That is what I am this week. We've been watching a piece of property now for over a year. My dream place to build our next house. Almost two weeks ago now I drove by and saw a "sale pending" sign on it. Bummer. We started looking for other places. Then, last friday the real estate agent called me and said the contract it was under is no longer and we were first on the list if we wanted it. YIPPEE! He faxed me the restrictions and building requirements (1600 sq ft, 60% masonry, 2-car attached garage). Which made me laugh because he kept calling the lots "a subdivision" when it's really only 5 lots that face a county road. They are not on their own road, there is no HOA, the seller is apparently the "architectural committee" because there is only one other family living there. Whatever. We met all the requirements except maybe the "2-car attached garage" part. We will have a 2-car garage+ but we were going to make it a separate building and attach it via a breezeway, so we wanted to submit our plans and get them approved before we purchased the lot. Anyway, long story short the seller is a MORON! He's moody (according to the real estate agent), a pain in the rear and a complete idiot. He's all of a sudden changing his mind about the requirements because someone came in and built a house that was just over 1600 sq ft then he let a buddy of his buy two of the other lots and build houses on them and they aren't selling. His buddy built a 2,000 sq ft house and a 1900 sq ft house and now he thinks that if anyone builds anything less than that it will cause those houses to not sell and bring their value down. We are talking about the country here! Not a subdivision in the city where everything has to look alike to maintain value. Besides there is a whole road FULL of new houses right behind them and they are all 1600-1800 sq ft! They're all brick, they're all close to the same size, it's not like we're gong to pull in a double-wide trailer and park it next door. MORON! Besides he told CJ that they were only asking $190,000 for those houses and ours will easily be worth that or very close to it. I just want to whack him on the forehead, and kick and scream and pull a Bobby Knight and throw a chair and tell him he's an idiot, but if he wants to not sell those lots because somebody isn't going to build exactly what he thinks should be there then he can keep loosing his butt and flushing his money down the toilet. He's already had these lots on the market for a year how much longet does he want to lose money? AAAAAAHHHHHH!
Now where am I going to live?
Friday, March 30, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Got Milk?
cause I do! You know I would never question the perfection of God's work especially when it comes to a woman's ability to feed her baby the most perfect food, but come on now....
...in the mornings, even though I have nursed him at least once in the night, I am so full that the slightest stimulation causes milk to come spewing out, no suction needed, which results in choking and spitting up and milk all over him and me.
...I get to enjoy that almost painful feeling of let down not only when he's nursing, but also whenever my body thinks I should be nursing him, or when any other baby in the store is crying.
...I am tethered to a bra 24/7 because if you let the girls loose and roll over in bed they think it's time to go and I have a fountain. I hate sleeping in a bra!
Please don't get me wrong, I love breast feeding and I wouldn't choose to do it any other way. I just wish the girls weren't quite so "on alert". haha
On other fronts:
We are making progress with our house. The inspector and the appraiser came out last week and everything seems to be moving along smoothly. I found some duplexes for rent in springtown about 5 minutes from where (hopefully) we're going to build. Yah! An interim place to stay - done. We'll be making an offer on a piece of property this week and we're starting to get things together to start building the new house. I've made arrangements for a storage unit and a PO Box and opened a seperate checking account for the money we will be using to build the house.
Packing is coming along nicely in the house. It's my office and the garage that are going to be the real problems. Thank goodness we have 4 weeks!
That's all for now. Love and hugs!
...in the mornings, even though I have nursed him at least once in the night, I am so full that the slightest stimulation causes milk to come spewing out, no suction needed, which results in choking and spitting up and milk all over him and me.
...I get to enjoy that almost painful feeling of let down not only when he's nursing, but also whenever my body thinks I should be nursing him, or when any other baby in the store is crying.
...I am tethered to a bra 24/7 because if you let the girls loose and roll over in bed they think it's time to go and I have a fountain. I hate sleeping in a bra!
Please don't get me wrong, I love breast feeding and I wouldn't choose to do it any other way. I just wish the girls weren't quite so "on alert". haha
On other fronts:
We are making progress with our house. The inspector and the appraiser came out last week and everything seems to be moving along smoothly. I found some duplexes for rent in springtown about 5 minutes from where (hopefully) we're going to build. Yah! An interim place to stay - done. We'll be making an offer on a piece of property this week and we're starting to get things together to start building the new house. I've made arrangements for a storage unit and a PO Box and opened a seperate checking account for the money we will be using to build the house.
Packing is coming along nicely in the house. It's my office and the garage that are going to be the real problems. Thank goodness we have 4 weeks!
That's all for now. Love and hugs!
Friday, March 16, 2007
Moving right along.
Well, I'm trying to keep my head screwed on straight. There's a lot going on but it is going pretty well all things considered. Where to start....
The house. Good news - we have two extra weeks. The closing has been moved to April 30th (it was the 13th). The bad news - we still have no idea where we're going to move to. I went to my friend Shaunery's house today and much to my dismay my favorite piece of property is "sale pending". I've been watching it since last April. I really just wanted to cry. Really now. It's been almost a year and now somebody wants it. Just my luck. The adjacent lot I think is still available and CJ wants to go look at some property down on the north side of Weatherford. So, we'll see. In the mean time I've got to find some place to rent. It's not that rental properties are that hard to find, it's one's that are available for a month-to-month or short-term lease, have a fenced yard and allow pets that are hard to find. The price you pay for having a dog and a cat.
Tanner and Grace. They're doing great. Now that the grandparents are gone and it's just us they are starting to pay more attention to Morgan. They are really helpful. They like to hold him, get diapers for me when I'm changing him and just sit next to us. No problematic issues yet. I'm really blessed with wonderful kids.
Morgan is doing well. He's such a chunk! Makes me smile. Everytime CJ picks him up he says, "You're face is SOOOOO fat!" Makes me laugh. He's eating about every 4 hours and I'm still getting up once or twice in the night. My real test will be this week. Up til now I've had people taking Tanner back and forth to school and I've been able to go back to bed for an hour or two after his 5 or 6 am feeding. That's about to change! There'll be no more going back to bed for me. Say a little prayer.
CJ's doing well. Working, coaching baseball, and gearing up to build us a new house. He's going to be very busy over the next six months. It'll all be worth it in the end but we're going to be VERY busy trying to get everything done. Most waking hours will be spent working on the house so fishing, scrapbooking and just hanging out will get put on the back burner for the next 4-6 months. So remember me every once in a while - the one who fell of the face of the earth :-)
The house. Good news - we have two extra weeks. The closing has been moved to April 30th (it was the 13th). The bad news - we still have no idea where we're going to move to. I went to my friend Shaunery's house today and much to my dismay my favorite piece of property is "sale pending". I've been watching it since last April. I really just wanted to cry. Really now. It's been almost a year and now somebody wants it. Just my luck. The adjacent lot I think is still available and CJ wants to go look at some property down on the north side of Weatherford. So, we'll see. In the mean time I've got to find some place to rent. It's not that rental properties are that hard to find, it's one's that are available for a month-to-month or short-term lease, have a fenced yard and allow pets that are hard to find. The price you pay for having a dog and a cat.
Tanner and Grace. They're doing great. Now that the grandparents are gone and it's just us they are starting to pay more attention to Morgan. They are really helpful. They like to hold him, get diapers for me when I'm changing him and just sit next to us. No problematic issues yet. I'm really blessed with wonderful kids.
Morgan is doing well. He's such a chunk! Makes me smile. Everytime CJ picks him up he says, "You're face is SOOOOO fat!" Makes me laugh. He's eating about every 4 hours and I'm still getting up once or twice in the night. My real test will be this week. Up til now I've had people taking Tanner back and forth to school and I've been able to go back to bed for an hour or two after his 5 or 6 am feeding. That's about to change! There'll be no more going back to bed for me. Say a little prayer.
CJ's doing well. Working, coaching baseball, and gearing up to build us a new house. He's going to be very busy over the next six months. It'll all be worth it in the end but we're going to be VERY busy trying to get everything done. Most waking hours will be spent working on the house so fishing, scrapbooking and just hanging out will get put on the back burner for the next 4-6 months. So remember me every once in a while - the one who fell of the face of the earth :-)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
OH SHIT!
My worst nightmare has come true. I have a two week old baby and we're going to be moving in the next 5 weeks. Yep! We got an offer on the house yesterday and it was a good one. Holy crap! Now we have to find a place to move to and pack and we're closing on April 13th. Aaaaaahhhhhh!
On a different note, Morgan is doing great. We had his two week old check up yesterday and he is 10 lbs 3.5 oz now. I'm still nursing every 3-4 hours around the clock and so I'm a little sleep deprived but we're all doing well. Tanner and Grace are both great with him. They're a little less interested in him than I expected but I'm sure that will change when he starts doing a little more than just eatin and sleeping.
Tanner's baseball practice started today. Tanner actually put on his athletic support cup without fussing - yippee!
Have a great week!
On a different note, Morgan is doing great. We had his two week old check up yesterday and he is 10 lbs 3.5 oz now. I'm still nursing every 3-4 hours around the clock and so I'm a little sleep deprived but we're all doing well. Tanner and Grace are both great with him. They're a little less interested in him than I expected but I'm sure that will change when he starts doing a little more than just eatin and sleeping.
Tanner's baseball practice started today. Tanner actually put on his athletic support cup without fussing - yippee!
Have a great week!
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