The Last Goodbye
It has come time for me to wrap up a chapter in my life. One that I never even thought I would embark upon.When I sat down and started this little blog so many years ago, I never imagined it would take off as it did. I started it for my family and friends who lived so far away. I wanted them to be able to see what we were up too and to watch the kids grow.Little did I know I would make many new friends through this writing.I am sad to say goodbye, but I know it is time. My kids are not little anymore and don't do the cute toddler things that were so fun to write about. In fact my oldest is now reading my blog. And my husband too. Which I always thought I

Boring in Bullet Points
Life here has been relatively boring. Not that I am complaining. That means nothing is going terribly wrong either. :DWe spent the weekend 400 miles away from home visiting family. When we got home our kitties were extremely lovey. Now two of them are following me around the house. Did you know it is hard to type with a cat laying on your laptop?I cleaned out closets yesterday. I took 8 bags of stuff to Goodwill. My closets look amazing and so clean. Now I need to tackle switching the kids clothes. Fall is upon us.I am planning our town's kid's halloween party again this year. This will be the fourth year I have done it. Seems like so many more years than

Planning
I am busy planning for our vacation to Walt Disney World. It is so hard to do that when you have a large family as pretty much anything we do online only allows for 4 kids.I am also glad we waited until our kids were older so that traveling with little kids won't be an issue for us.But I have seen, through my searches, many websites that have toddler travel tips and ideas I never would have thought of.Any ideas you all would like to share for a family of 7 would be greatly appreciated. :D

Too Lazy
If you had asked me a few months ago I would have said my title for this post is an oxymoron. I would have. You cannot possibly be too lazy can you?But as my kids start their third week of school and I sit at home with NO ONE here, I realize you can be too lazy. I feel unproductive, uninspired, bored, and in general just miserable.Sure I can clean. There are lots of parts to my house that need cleaned. Lots. But that gets old after the first day. One can only take so many days of spending 8 hours cleaning and scrubbing only to have the kids undo all the work 5 minutes after they walk in the door.Needless to say I am very much looking forward to my job sta

Life, as Usual
Well I think we are finally over the hump of the first week of school. All of my kids except one successfully caught some bug or another. But they all went back to school today.I mailed my job application out yesterday. I did. And now I wait for them to run the background check so I can be officially hired. I am scared, nervous, and excited all at the same time.I made a big mess in our house over the weekend. I ripped out the carpet in the two downstairs rooms. The living room and dining room to be exact. I have cursed the carpet in the dining room since the day we moved in 7 years ago. So now we are in the process of getting stuff put back in. We discovered we have