Welcome to our new home

Our New House

After careful planning and much consideration, Will and I decided it was a good time to buy our own home (pictures are on the slide show). We wanted a four bedroom so the kids could have their own room. We looked at homes around town. Houses are way cheap right now, but it was hard to find a four bedroom in our price range. Before the housing market crashed some new housing developments were built. They were beautiful homes but back then were selling for well over 500,000. When we weren't finding any four bedrooms that worked for us, we decided (just for kicks) to check out the available houses in one of the new developments. To our surpirise the new houses were in our price range and included some four bedrooms. So, the realitor showed us around and we found one we liked. It was originally a three bedroom, but they made the loft into a fourth bedroom at no extra cost to us (they just want to sell the thing). The bonus was it was completely ready to move in and fully landscape. Will and I have come to terms with our anti-yard work attitudes. The kid's rooms are all upstairs and the master bedroom is down stairs (nice). We have a garage, which Will is determined to only put the cars in. Best of all, I have a closet!! For those of you that don't know, we converted an extra family room into a fourth bedroom at our old house. Needless to say there was never a closet built. So, I am very excited that I no longer share a closet with Liam. We moved in back in July (right in the middle of school and everything else). It was hectic, but we have a great new house. Oh, and Liam (for reasons I dare not ask) has decided that he is going to buy the available house next door. He's obsessed and even told me that he was going to get in there somehow and switch the available sign to the sold side so no one will buy it. I told him that when he grew up, finished college, and got a job maybe he could buy it someday. Well, that was not good enough because he wants to be the first person to live there. Someone came buy the other day to put a sign on the lawn and he came running downstairs and asked why was some lady putting that sign in front of his house. I guess I should hide the hacksaw. I don't want him going out there cutting the dang thing down. Don't laugh he has been known to do odd things like that!!

The First Day of School

I know, I know. It has been a while since I have last blogged. Without going into too much detail, I had a very busy summer. Not the "going on a vacation" busy either. I was in school and going to Salinas 2-3 days a week to "observe" in a fifth grade class. We moved into our new house (yeah!). That's another post coming soon with pictures. Anyway, I am on a break from school until Sept. 2. The good news is this is my last term and I will finally be fully credentialed in December. Now that I am getting back into the routine I will be (hopefully) posting more in the future. So, we had our first day of school yesterday. Liam is in first grade and Sydney is in eighth grade. It is kind of neat having Liam in the same grade level that I teach. He is not in my class but I see him on the playground and during P.E. Poor kid, he won't be able to get away with anything. Everybody (all the teachers and office staff) know him, plus his Aunt Jen is the Vice Principal. I thought he would be shell shocked having to go back to school. However, he did really well. Although when I asked him how everything went yesterday, he put his head down on the table and said, "Good, but it was a LONG day". Then to top it all off, we had a little mishap in the evening. I got home with the kids sometime after 5 o'clock. I was on the phone when Will came and said, "Bye, I am moving some equipment and I am taking Liam." I just waved and kept talking on the phone. Well, I made dinner for Aubree and myself (Sydney was at a meeting), cleaned up and started getting ready for bed. Will and Liam got home soon after and Liam took a shower, got jammies on, and I put him to bed. At about 8:45 Liam came walking into my room and said, "Mom, you most certainly forgot to give me dinner." Oops!! Apparently, mom had a long day too!!