So much to tell...

We are all moved into the new house and mostly unpacked.  I think Jason and I are going to work on the MB tonight after Harri goes to bed.  I HATED our old house.  I tried not to think about it, but now that we're gone....AGH, I hated it so much.  I'm so happy to have a house that is newer, nicer, and bigger.  It's much more "me".  I know that's snobby and horrible of me and I don't care.  I want to live in a nice place.  I won't feel bad about that.  We were going to go back and work real hard to get our deposit back, but we've decided not to.  Jason did a final walk thru with our Landlord and he wants about $400 worth of stuff done(steam clean carpets, repaint 3 rooms, fix window)  Most of these are things that need to be done.  I personally think the paint is "wear and tear"  we did live there 2 years.  I do believe we need to fix the window and clean the carpets though.  Here's my concern.  We spend $400 doing wants he wants and he still doesn't give his back our deposit.  OR We spend $400 and 8-10 hours man power to get it done and he gives up back our deposit. He's already told us he's taking off $60 for the plumber b/c the last time they came out that was our "portion" of the bill. So we are down to $540 minus the $400 and the man hours we put into it.  So we actually get $140.  It's not worth my time to spend a whole Sunday for that.  I feel very confident that no mater what we do he won't give us back our full deposit. So I'm going to basically cut my losses and basically "pay" him to put it in the condition he wants it.  We've already cleaned, wiped, and mopped.  That's all he's getting from us.  He can do all that other stuff.

Got a big bonus at work today :O)  SOOO excited.  I'm working on getting everything paid for 6 months so the (way) higher rent we pay won't be such a pinch each month.  It's worth it.  I love my house.  I've already paid 6 months of insurance and I'm going to pay off the credit cards too.  I think with the bonus I'm going to pay 6 months of van payments too. I also have to start planing for Jonathan's big birthday party too.  The Dj quote we got was $240 and the country club rental is $150-200.  Then there's decorations, food...  I'm so glad he only has a golden birthday once!!  It's gonna be so fun though.  I think I even got a photographer too :O)

I'm having a REALLY hard time with Jonathan going to middle school. Tonight we went to the football meeting and I couldn't stop thinking about the bus rides to and from games.  He's growing up... and I don't like it.  I was sick all day thinking about if he could get his locker open, if the 8th graders were bothering him, could he find his classes, did he get lost, was he late, was the teacher mean to him if he was...  I was SO happy to see him at 5:45 practice, to know he was alive and okay. Sounds silly I know, but he's my first born., my baby.

Tired

I slept lousy last night.  I was supposed to meet Josh at 7:30 for book review and I'm SO glad he postponed.  I got to sleep in a little and I needed it. We ended up meeting over lunch instead.  We are reading one of James Maxwell's books again.  LOVE IT.  Love him, his books are so great.  So much is happening at work.  The team is growing so fast and our systems aren't growing with us.  We are having growing pains to say the least. We have a couple of agents who aren't team players.  They need a good spanking, however that's not the best way to lead...so we deal with it for now.  We got the moving truck tonight and started loading up.  OK, I didn't load up my awesome husband did.  He did pretty much everything he could with out a dolly.  We'll go rent one tomorrow or Thursday.  So ready to be in the new house.

2 blogs in 1 week??

i miss blogging and when i'm not in front of a computer i can think of all sorts of things to blog about, but when i sit down i draw a blank.  the house is almost packed.  i'll bring home the company truck this weekend(perk of working for a real estate office) and we'll get to loading.  we packed a lot over the weekend and jason and the kids will finish up tomorrow.  then 5:30 friday we meet the lady to get the key! woo-hoo!  i can't wait! i'm freaking out a little about the increased rent, but i'm already planning on using my bonus's to off set the higher monthly amount.  i haven't been running :O(  no reason really other then heat and laziness.  i'm going to pay for my entry next week that way i'm committed to doing it.  i still have time to do a descent train up.  i'm hoping that school starting will help. i hate the havoc summers reek upon my schedule(or lack of)  savannah will be playing vollyball in the fall for the rec center and jonathan will be playing football, of course.  for the middle school... scary.  7th grade...  it really creeps me out that he's going to school with girls who have boobs.  thankfully he seems to have a good head on his shoulders and i keep a super tight eye on him and his friends. it seems a lot of parents these days use facebook as babysitters for their children.  more than once i've had to get on there and regulate his friends b/c their own parents don't  :O(  work is going good, busy, but i love it.  i love what i do and i have the most awesome boss in the world.  in addition to my normal bonus's he called me into his office last week and told me to book a night at the great wolf lodge for the family, on him.  just to say thanks for all the extra work i've been doing(we've been SO busy!)  we are gonna stay in sept when we go to k.c. to see taylor(woot-woot)  the kids are stoked.  our business is growing so much!  we have 26 closings in august for a total of almost 4 million in total sales and 100k in gross commission income.  who says the real estate market is down??  it's definitely a buyers market, but there is a market!!

A full calendar month?

I can't believe I didn't post at all in July?  Crazy.  No real reason other than laziness and lack of time.  I'm SO glad this summer is almost over.  I'm a total advocate of year round schooling!  Summers are torture on parents, especially working ones.  As you can tell I'm excited that school starts 2 weeks from today!

Before school start though, we'll be moving!  I'm sooo excited! We've lived in this house for 2 years.  It was a good fit for our family then, but I'm glad to be moving on.  Our landlord is a jerkface.  He never wants to fix anything.  We've washing dishes by hand for weeks.  I'm DONE.  It got so bad that earlier this week Jason told him to F%&k off.  Ya, no lease renewal after that! LOL!  Derby has a tons of perks, and b/c of those perks it's an expensive place to live.  You can get 3 bedrooms pretty descent, but 4 bedrooms...Agh.  PRICEY!  We bit the bullet and upgraded :O)    Next weekend we will be moving into a 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 living area, 2 car garage twin home(aka duplex).  It's WAY newer than the house we have now.  It has a whirlpool tub, I think that's my favorite part.  It's been years since I've been able to enjoy a bath!! Not excited to move, but excited to be moved.

My sweet Harrison is almost potty trained!!  He wears a diaper at night and during nap, but wears undies all day.  He even poops on the potty!  It's bittersweet.  Of course I love that he's potty training, but he's my last one....I think.