We have started week 3 of the Spring semester.  I can’t believe this is my last official full semester.  I have two more classes to take that I will complete in the Fall.  With those two classes, in order to make a full time semester I will find two other classes to take.  They won’t be part of my Associates in Accounting but I will take business related classes.

I still have this semester to finish and so far I have done really well.  I am hoping to finish with a 4.0 GPA.  I currently have a 4.0 but anything can happen this semester.  LOL!

I just can’t believe how fast the past 2 years have gone.  Tony and I will have completed 5 semesters of college, maintained our household, our jobs (I now work a part time job and have been since September of last year), and everything else that goes along with our life.

The only thing I feel that has fallen by the wayside is our relationship.  I mean we knew what we were getting in to but I feel we have NO TIME to spend together.  It seems like when we do have any time (like over the break in between Fall and Spring) we didn’t spend any of it alone.  We didn’t go on a date or nothing.  Sometimes I wonder if he wants to spend time alone with me.

When we first started dating, we were only together for about 9 months before we started to have kids.  WOW, that sounds so quick now that I actually say it “out loud.”  We didn’t try very long before I got pregnant.  From that point on I was almost constantly pregnant or healing from a pregnancy for the following 3 years.  Shortly after we had our little boy (2 years ago) we decided to go back to college.  That now brings us to the present.  I just wonder if we really spent any “alone” time before diving in to “parenthood” together.  I was already a parent and entered our relationship with a 9 year old.

I know we have the rest of our lives to spend together.  And I know that what we are doing right now can and will only better the rest of our lives together.  We want and deserve so much more for our family.  I will give it more time before I start jumping to any conclusions.  Before I start worrying we will not be able to make it through life together.  We only have this last semester to go.  Well I guess Tony will continue at a university and I do plan on continuing my education but maybe it won’t be as intense.

Only time will tell, right?

Post contributed by Josue Durham

I love my roommate and I want everyone to know that upfront. She is a wonderful girl and we get along great. The only problem is her common sense. Well, I guess I should actually say lack of common sense. She is not the most intelligent person. We moved into a new place and I took care of everything, but the television programming. I did not really care what we got and thought this small responsibility would help her learn more. I should have never allowed her to do that. The first company that offered her Directtv choicextra she picked. She said you got extra, so it was a good deal. She didn’t take into consideration cost or what channels you did or didn’t get. She just heard the word “extra” and thought it must be good. I wonder if I just the word extra on my full bag of trash, if she would buy it from me. I do worry about what she will do when I move somewhere else. She is going to need someone to hold her hand through a lot of things in life.

Content by Kyle Lowe

The last thing I ever wanted to do was move from the south but since I have gotten my new job I don’t feel like I have much of choice. I have to make my decision tomorrow about whether or not to make the move up North. The job is too good of a job to pass up so I am more than likely going to take it. The good news is I have a friend in real estate business up North so I could probably find a house for a reasonable price and I’m confidant my family could take the time to visit me for the holidays. One of my friends who was in a similar situation last year sent me an encouraging email and gave me some great advice about what to look for in house and I read over a link he had sent me to a security site hTTP://WWW.HOMESECURITY101.COM/ I was very impressed with the services they offer and I know that when if I do have to move I will feel more secure.

Yesterday I decided to start “packing.”  When I think about doing it, it seems like the right thing to do given our time will be limited over the next 12 months but then when I pack and take stuff off walls and put in to boxes I think “wow, it is still a whole year away.”  I just know that once fall semester starts I will have limited time to do anything.  Tony will be in classes Mon-Wed-Fri.  He will only have off of work on Mon and Wed so since he has class on Fri, he will have to work the closing shift.  We will not be spending much time together.  I will be taking five classes and all of them at night.  I will have no online classes.

I am so nervous about the fall semester because I will be needing Nicki to watch the kids more.  Tony should be home most nights except for once a month he won’t be home on Tuesday night.  Plus I think he has a lab on campus but I don’t remember when.  But I won’t be home at all at night during the week.  It makes me sad just thinking about it.  I have always been there to tuck my kids in.  The ONLY time I haven’t is when I had my kids and I was in the hospital.  I guess I need to just think about how I made it through those times in order to get through this coming semester.  The deal with me in the hospital though is it was only a couple times, this fall will be four whole months.  Well I will also keep telling myself it will all be worth it when I am driving across country next summer to my new home in Arizona. 

I am so excited to finally be thinking about buying a home and settling down.  I am excited to care about my house.  LOL!  I just mean that now, I rent, I don’t concern myself when the kids draw on the walls or do something wrong.  I feel bad that they do it but it just doesn’t bother me as much.  I want to be able to decorate.  We have no furniture or decorations because….well I just don’t know why.  I want to buy stuff for the house.  I was searching online the other day and I came across this website that has cool signs.  I think they are supposed to be for a business but I am sure I could have something made for my craft room.  I have my fingers crossed I will have my very own craft room one day.  Anywho, the site is called Impact Signs.    I am not sure if I would want the sign in metal letters or bronze letters. I do know I would like it to say “Artful Delight.”  Since I have my online scrapbook kit club that would be totally awesome to have a cool sign made to hang in my craft room.  Oh I am totally getting excited now.

Thinking like this keeps me motivated to move forward, to keep saving and to work hard at school.    I just CAN’T WAIT!!!  One year will be here before I know it. 

As I stated in an earlier post when I start work  next year I will need to get new clothes.  I will want to have lost some weight and so I will have to start exercising on my own.  No more Yoga, oh that makes me sad. 

I will be getting an office type job so I am sure I will need to get some nice clothes.  When we lived in Florida I ALWAYS wore sandals and flip flops, not so much since moving to Virginia.  But I can assure that when we move to Arizona in the warm weather I will totally want to buy some super cute sandals.  I found some super cute sandals by designer Michael kors.  I guess the wedge sandal is the “in” style right now because that is all I see.  It is a good thing Tony and I will be working because although those shoes are SUPER cute they are also SUPER expensive, at least for our budget.  I also found some SUPER cute sunglasses by cole haan that I would love to have.  I am not typically a sunglasses wearer but the sun these days has really been killing my eyes.  And those are totally in my budget.  Maybe a birthday or Mother’s Day present, *wink*! 

Ya know I really hate when I find websites with really cute shoes and accessories because now I want to go shopping.  I found the perfect sandals by stuart weitzman
, they are kinda like this old pair I had and I LOVED them.  Ok, I am totally going to need a credit card or something so I can go shopping.  LOL!!!    Here are some pics of my favs. 

Oh I can’t wait to go shopping!!!  LOL!! 

Well not so funny but the other day I was at school in my Yoga class, have I mentioned how MUCH I love Yoga?  Well anyway, I came walking out of my classroom and there was a hospital bed, I just glanced at it and really thought nothing of it until I looked up when I got closer and saw people laying in the bed, did a double take and realized it was just a dummy and a baby dummy.  LOL!  But I seriously jumped  out of my skin.  It freaked me out.  LOL!  But anywho apparently my college is heavily populated with students getting a nursing degree.  So basically when I walk around the building that has my Yoga class there are always students walking around in medical scrubs.  With as many nurses or nursing students as there are I am totally surprised they don’t have a store on campus, like a scrub store where students can buy scrubs.  I mean it would make sense, there is a book store so why not sell scrubs there too.  Well ya know what they might actually sell scrubs, I am not sure.

All I know unrelated to being a nurse is that I want NEED to finish my courses and get out of here.  I am ready to move, I am ready to settle down, I am ready to find a good paying job and start helping support the family.  It’s time!!

I get so annoyed sometimes when I try and search on Google.  LOL!   Tony is like the Google guru.  He knows exactly what to type in the search box to find just what he needs.  So as I stated in my earlier post that we will be moving in the next year or so.  Tony and I have sort of unofficially decided to rent for a year after getting to Illinois and then buying after we are settled in our(my) job.  So I have been doing some searches for places to live, like on Craigslist and such.  Then just for the fun of it I was doing some searches for places I can look in to prices to get custom work done in the house we will eventually buy.  LOL!  Yeah I know a little early but when I do stuff like that it gets me excited and it keeps me focused.  So we might want to have our leather couches cleaned after we move, so I searched for leather cleaners and the only thing that kept popping up was leather cleaning specialist austin.  What would I need a leather specialist in Austin for, maybe my Aunt or my friend Jenni could benefit but I need one in Illinois.  LOL!  But that is totally what happens my searches totally come up with something different.

I also ended up doing a search for an air duct cleaning.  We currently live in an older house and the air and heat flow through the vents really sucks.  I am wondering if I need to have the air ducts cleaned.  So again I trusted my ability to perform a Google search and up popped air duct cleaning coupons austin and air duct cleaning price austin.  Folks in Austin must do some major searches for air duct cleaning and such because it is top on the Google search, at least when I did, that was all I could find.  LOL!

All I know is I am super stoked to be moving, moving out of the house we live in and eventually (hopefully soon) buying a place of our own.  I swear the place we are currently in is falling apart below our feet.  I am not sure it will last another year and a half.  LOL!