On The Market........And Other Life Stuff.......

* Today we put our house on the market. Can you hear the thud of the silence? Is this really real? We are listing our house with Coldwell Bankers. Last week we did alot of updating to the yards, both front and back. I planted daisies in the front yard and we also dug up an old bush and planted three Japanese Boxwoods and two other flowering plants. The yard looks really nice. We have also had our guest bathroom fixed. Some of the tile around the bathtub had come loose and the soap dish that was affixed to the wall had come off. The guy that did our tile, did a great job. He also took out some of the old tile in our bathroom and cleaned them up and put them back up. He also did some re-grouting for us. Why don't we make these adjustments when we are living in the house so that we can enjoy them? The flowers are really pretty. At my next house I am going to plant some Gerber daisies. They are so nice. It is amazing what color a few flowers bring to a yard. Don't look now but I think I am growing a green thumb.

Now we have lived here for 9 years and not one house has gone on the market in that time. Well today, three yes, two houses within spitting distance are going up for sale right across the street from us.. WOW!!!!! David called our realtor and told him that that makes us very nervous. He said that it was o.k. because we are right in the middle of the prices of house and we have the most square footage. So I guess this is another area that we are going to have to trust God in.

*I would like to tell you that I am going through all of this with out any stress at all. But that would be a lie. If you notice that I am getting a little fluffier during this time, you know that is how (apparently) I am handling my stress. I guess food is my drug of choice. What a surprise? he he he Like that is news to anyone. Anyone that knows me, knows that I have had a love affair with food for a long time. I am also discovering that I have become rather forgetful, these days. But I am not going to worry about that right now. I am just going to take one day at a time and trust in the Lord.

* My kids took their final math benchmark today and out of 38 children I had 4 fail. One that missed it by one question and 2 that missed it by two questions. One of the students missed it by 8. I don't know that I can do much about that. I have 4 more weeks until my taks test. I will hold tutoring for four more weeks.

* My oldest had to learn a very hard lesson today. Maybe I will write about it some day, but for now I just can't. One of those simple little mistakes girls make when they are trying to be older than they really are. It is not life altering in the big scope of things, but for her it is. I felt so bad for her. I hope she doesn't suffer too much for it at school. Maybe no one will notice. It is tough growing up. I have discovered that it however, is much tougher to watch your children grow up. So many times of joy and so many times of heartache. Poor baby she just cried and cried. I felt so sorry for her and had to cover up my own grin. However she and I will laugh about it someday.

* Hannah is doing great with ymca volleyball. She really loves volleyball and practices it all of the time. She scored several points in each game this Monday night. She is growing up so fast. She turned 10 this week. I thin she is faking it. She is really just 5. We bought her a refurbished ipod for her birthday. She was so excited. She actually squealed with delight.

*Bekah is playing softball. She wanted to skip t-ball. So we moved her up into a higher league. It will be fun to watch her compete. She loves sports.

* David has gotten to stay home for about a week. Before that he was gone for a very long time. I have really enjoyed him being done. I have come to realize over and over how much he does around. We really got a lot done. Even though I told you how I am relieving my stress, I feel so much better now that we are beginning to get some things done. I just thanked David over and over again today for all of the help he gave me.

* Oh by the way I am writing this post from a new laptop we got today. We took down our other computer to stage the house for viewing so David found a good sale at Office Depot so he bought one. He gets his work schedule on the computer and I also have sent out so many resume's with my home e-mail address on them, we felt it was a good purchase.

* I will post some pictures of Hannah's birthday when I learned how to down load on this computer.

* It is late and I am tired so I will write later.

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