Summer Time = Blog Time

Today is the last day of school! wooo whooo!! OK technically tomorrow is the last day of school but today is the last day with the kids. Trust me people a day with kids and a day without kids in the building are completely different. Today is the celebration and tomorrow is the clean up in piece and quiet. After that my summer with my little Carson man begins.

I'll do a quick catch up since I haven't blogged since Christmas time. Carson is about to turn 2 years old in July and Baby Black #2 is going to make his/her appearance in November. No we don't know what it is yet...hopeful to find out here in a few weeks.

Our house is STILL on the market...if you need a house in the Houston area PLEASE come buy it!! I haven't started panicking yet, but I will soon if we have no where to put Baby Black #2.

That's it for now...
Happy last day of school to all you teachers out there and to the working world I'm sorry because I know how much you hate hearing about our summer break.

Toys, toys, and more TOYS!

Every year we hear about the "hot" toys for Christmas. I swore up and down that I was not going to be one of those mothers or even aunts that fall into the trap of the hot items. I have fallen hard. Here are a few things that I have sold into this year.

Pillow pet for my sweet Avery (niece)

Sing A Ma Jigs for Carson and maybe all of his cousins too. These things are SO funny. I might just buy them for every baby I know. If you haven't played with one of these at the store you are missing out.

Carson's Grammy bought him a Dancing Mickey Mouse which he will go crazy over. Carson's favorite show, actually the only show he will watch on TV, is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. He responds to it and can say Mickey and also his favorite song and dance which is the Hot dog dance.

Now if any of these items start selling for more than the asking price like the tickle-me-Elmo's did back in the day, you better believe I am putting them on eBay and getting the highest bidder. When that whole Elmo craze happened my parents had bought two to give to my nephews for Christmas that year. They ended up selling them for WAY more than what they bought them for and a few months later bought the boys new ones. Carson hardly even knows whats going on. He LOVES looking at the houses decorated with lights. His new expression is "oh wow" with every house we pass, and it never gets old. He knows what Santa looks like and calls him "Ta" and follows that with a very weak "ho ho ha". I'm enjoying this Christmas with him so much already, next year will he even more fun. If I find or buy anymore hot toys I will let y'all know.

It's Officially Official

Most of you see the title and figure that we are closed on the new house and ready to move in. Well it's the exact opposite. The new house is back on the market and our current house is off the market.
Long story short our mortgage lender overlooked that our current house was under a FHA loan and we would need a FHA loan for the new house. He frantically called Garet about 2 weeks ago apologizing and scrambling to find any other way to have both houses at the same time. In the mean time we lowered the price on our current house in attempt to get a quick sale. Well neither idea worked...no one wanted to buy our house and there was no other possible way to change the loan on either house.
Yes we are bummed that we aren't getting the house, but we also have to remember how blessed we are to have jobs, a wonderful house, healthy family, great friends, and a beautiful healthy baby boy.
The game plan is: We are going to wait 6-8 months and then put our house back on the market and start looking for another dream home. If Garet or I can find jobs in Dallas in the next few months we might have to find that dream home there :)
We are firm believers that everything happens for a reason. For the next few months we will be looking for that reason and if anybody wants to help we would love it.

Moving on out!

Most of you, if anyone reads this, didn't know we were even looking for a new house. Well we really weren't. What we were looking for was a GREAT deal...and we found one! A few weeks ago I found a forclouser house on a realistate website here in Houston called HAR.com. I took a look at the pictures and immediatly told Garet if he was for real about us looking at houses we needed to look at this one ASAP. So he took me seriously for once and we went to look at the house the next day. We both were overwelmed with the house because it was everything we wanted and more...gameroom, 3 car garage, great kitchen, ready to move in without work and best of all in Garet's eyes - a media room. The price was almost right but a little wheeling and dealing with the bank - 2 weeks later they except an offer!! We close in less than a month and start moving in.

I know it sounds too good to be true. Well it half way is...during this entire process we are putting our current house on the market and really haven't gotten any interest yet. We are keeping our fingers crossed and our spirits high. Worse comes to worse we will rent it.

Hopefully once we get the house somewhat put together we will update and put more pictures up. I know, I'm not a very good blogger, but maybe with some down-time coming up I will get with the program.

Here is a sneak peak of one of my favorite pictures at Carson's 1 year photo shoot.

Annoyed

This post might offend some people, but at this point I really don't care. This is my third year teaching and it seems like every year it gets worse. Let me explain...

Today was the day during wonderful work week for the teachers that we received our class rosters. For the PE teachers it is a bit different...We are assigned 2-3 classes per grade. So for example I am in charge of 2 kinder classes, 2 1st grade classes, 3 2nd class...all the way to 5th grade. 3 times a week I get to see these sweet angels in each class. Only if they really were angels. Don't get me wrong I love my job, but some of these kids really test my patience and want to be a teacher. When I really start to think about it though, it's not the kid's fault, it is the parents that aren't doing their job.

Every year we go through the rosters and pull up the kinder class and say "OH NO, not another one" Before we even meet this little 5 year old we know that he or she is going to be the problem child of the class because the 3 siblings are also enrolled at our school are the worst kids in the school. Can I really blame the kids for their misbehavior? Not really because the home life is awful! Yes, they are all brothers and sisters but they all have different last names from different men. You know kids they will pretty much tell you everything...and these kids have. Their mom lives off the government, they have a new step dad every few months, their grandparents babysit them most of the time, and mom blows the money on new purses and clothes and that's the reason why they can't get new tennis shows, even though the ones they have a huge hole in them. On top of that there is a 2 year old at home and MOM IS PREGNANT AGAIN!

Where is the logic? I have a quick fix: If you are living off the government you should be required to get birth control shots every month or quarter or however they do the shots. If you miss one you are cut off. Less babies living in poor conditions and teachers gaining just a bit of sanity knowing that a repeat of bad parenting doesn't occur. It would be very easy to say bad kids, but lets face it, the kids learn their bad behavior somewhere. While I do parking lot duty and watch two parents curse each other out over a spot, I realize why their child is the way they are.

Now that I have that off my chest, I just have to suck it up and hope that somehow I can influence one of those family members to strive to be better and not repeat the mistakes that their parents made. Be the one that breaks the cycle of teen pregnancy or even children out of wedlock. Help them find something they are passionate about.

Again happy school year y'all.

Bye Bye Summer

Tomorrow is the dreaded day. I am no longer a stay at home mom. The 2010 - 2011 school year starts tomorrow...well at least for teachers. The students have one more week of freedom and then they will have the feeling that I have tonight. Fun in the sun is over.

This year is harder for me because I have to take my precious, adorable, charming little man to daycare EVERY day this week. Don't get me wrong, we love our nanny that we take Carson to, but it will be terribly hard to leave him every morning this week.

Everyday he is doing something new that makes me laugh so hard. For example, for his birthday his Grammy (Garet's mom) gave him this little bag of farm animals. Well Carson decides that he wants to mimic his mommy and starts carrying the bag around like a purse either on his shoulder or on his arm. When I say carrying I mean strutting around the house like he is the coolest kid ever because he figured out how to get this bag on his shoulder. While I am laughing Garet is yelling "Carson! No...No...Just carry it in your hand!" Seeing Daddy panic makes Carson start giggling, so not only is he strutting with a purse but giggling while doing it. I love love love this age because he can do that and get away with it because 5 seconds later he is slam dunking his basketball into anything that will make noise.

Little things like that almost make me want to tear up thinking i will be without him for the entire week. We will both get used to it and he will end up having more fun and learning more things being around his friends and kids his age.

I hope everyone has a great week and any teachers reading this happy new school year and we have Thanksgiving break to look forward to!