Interview with myself

Upon arriving at the interview I found the subject's house a mess and a mix of poopie diapers and clean laundry in the air. It had obviously been a rough morning.

ME: So, I think the questions on everyone's mind is... Are you moving? Did you buy a house?

MYSELF: For now, no. We were "under contract" three times with the same house and in the end it just didn't work out. I guess it wasn't meant to be. We lost a lot of money, but it is all going to be okay.

ME: What happens from here?

MYSELF: Well we are back at square one looking for a place to buy. We hope to buy and move within the next three months. We already have a few we have interest in.

ME: Do you feel that you learned something from this experience? What positive feedback can you take from this?

MYSELF: Well the positive is my family is healthy, safe and we have a place to live. We have warm beds to crawl into at night and lots of love. I guess this experience has given me a sense of gratitude. Gratitude to my family and friends. Our poor friends the Allen's put so much time into the situation and didn't get anything out of it. We feel lucky to be surrounded by such great people. We couldn't feel more loved!

ME: Yeah, that's nice...moving on to the more social part of this piece....nice hair. Are you planning on going on a rock tour or something with that bright red?

MYSELF: I think I look quite sexy actually. I needed something fun to kick my butt out of the just had a baby phase. I am, after all, still in my twenties, even if it is only for three more years.

ME: Do you prefer flushable wipes or regular old toilet paper?

MYSELF: That is way to personal. This interview is over. Your gonna hear from my publicist!

Subject storms out of the interview. Amongst her fury she trips on her daughter's new strawberry shortcake house and all the minuscule pieces come crashing out. Sighing with defeat, she goes to search for chocolate.

2009 Christmas Card

Merry Christmas to all! These past weeks have been crazy so this is pretty much our Christmas Card folks. We are still in limbo, much to our distress, with our house. I think George and I have aged twenty years over this deal. I pulled a muscle in my neck brushing my teeth the other day. Funny, huh? Except for the fact I couldn't move the past couple days. Excluding those things life is pretty great. We are so grateful to have two healthy, beautiful children who bring us so much joy. We are grateful for George's job, his boss and all the blessings it has brought into our life. I am so grateful for my job as a crossing guard. I love my kiddos I cross. I got so many hugs and gifts from them on their last day before the break. I know I have it pretty good.

Lately, I have been thinking about how Mary felt giving birth to the Savior. Imagine seeing Christ's first smile and feeling his hand curl around your finger all to know he was going to grow up and suffer a horrible death to save the world. I am not sure how I would deal with that. As a mother we always feel we have to protect our children and Mary knew she couldn't do that. I hope our home this season reflects the love we have for the Savior of the world.

We hope you and your family have a great Christmas season. We feel blessed to have great family and friends and you are part of that!

We are back on!

Like I said....our house status changes every day. We are suppose to close today or Monday. Looks like we will be getting our house after all. *PHEW*. I was seriously considering moving to Australia if this didn't work out. My husband was quite thrilled I was actually thinking about it. Looks like we are meant to be in the States though. We will move in just in time to set up our Christmas tree and our imaginary presents. Small Christmas...Big hearts.

I'm blue how are you?

I have been feeling a little down lately. Turns out we are not getting the house. As far as today goes anyways. It seems to change everyday. In three months we can get a house because that will be two full years that George has work history in the United States but not before that. That doesn't seem too bad right? WRONG. In the meantime, we are facing being sued by the seller of the house, have to pay out of pocket for the inspection, FHA inspection, Meth test that was going to come out of her closing costs. And we lost our good faith money. Thousands down the drain for NOTHING. Which depletes the money we had for a down payment. So, no house. Not today maybe ever. I feel blue.