Quick update: my dad is home from the hospital! They said he may have been dehydrated and was on too much of his blood thinner medicine. He will not be taking any more for a few days.

1. My plans for Labor Day included packing for our move, but what really happened was went window shopping!

2. Call me crazy, but sometimes I just need to sleep all day long.

3. One of the funniest things I’ve seen lately is a picture of my mom holding the empty roll of aluminum foil she’s had longer than I’ve been alive!

4. It’s strange, but dvds out of alphabetical order drives me crazy while things out of place (but not messy) anywhere else is perfectly fine with me!

5. One, two, buckle my shoe… three, four with this move, I’ve never been excited more! 

My dad has been admitted to the hospital for the 3rd time in three weeks. So much for breaking the cycle! All I know as of right now is that his heart rate was high, his platelet count is extremely high, and something else was high. (Not sure what) He could be there for a few days. Please pray that the doctors can figure out what is wrong soon so my parents can go home. They’ve had a rough month!

I will post updates. Hope everyone else is doing good! The Sarge and I move next week. There WILL be pictures!

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I have been slacking so much lately! I am really trying to get on here more and share more things that are going on. Some I’m really excited about. Some I’m dreading. Some will help me. I really appreciate all of my loyal readers who are being patient with me! I promise to be here more soon!

I got the latest “All You” magazine the other day. It had an article about stockpiling your pantry, so your weekly grocery bill will be less. I really want to work on that! However, we have no place to store the extra food right now. LOL! I’m really hoping to have everything unpacked and in its place by next month. My pulled muscle in my foot has been slowing me down though. Grr. I’m praying to gets better FAST!

Well, I should go now. My family is having a cookout at my parents house today. I need to get ready for that! Hope everyone had a blessed 4th of July weekend and thank you to all the men and women who are risking their lives so that we may be FREE!

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Last year my sister got a new roommate. (Who is also a friend of our’s) We painted her room with a “Tinkerbell” theme. Here’s what it looks like:

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Since she is moving in with her fiance and I am moving back in with my sister, I decided to go for a more mature look. I picked a different shade of green, but it’s more mellow than the BRIGHT green she used. I’m painting the bedroom and the bathroom the same color. It will match my brown, green & tan shower curtain! Hehe. I’m excited. Unfortunately, we didn’t get it finished today, so you will have to check back later this week for the after pictures!

Do you have any before/after pictures of any projects? Please share!!

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I haven’t posted much this week because we have been packing for our move. We have a week left! I’m so excited to get out of our apartment. I really don’t like it! Plus I will be SO glad to be back in my home town! My 15 year old step-daughter has been staying at my sister’s house, helping her roommate pack her stuff to move out. She is moving out this weekend. (Today or tomorrow) She has to re-paint the bedroom and bathroom before we move in. So hopefully that will be done during this week!

I’m having another yard sale today. I’ve made more than twice as much as I did last weekend!! Which is crazy to me. Last weekend was a NEIGHBORHOOD yard sale. This week is not. Plus, this morning it rained a little bit. Thankfully, it was just for a minute or two and then it stopped. Its also better today because my dad’s van is not blocking the garage! So we have everything IN the garage instead of out in the heat! MUCH BETTER! I won’t be open much longer though. I’m ready to hit the pool!

I will try to set up some scheduled posts for the next week or so. I hate leaving you all hanging! Hope everyone has a superb weekend!

This past month has been so incredibly stressful. First my Grandma having surgery. Going in and out of the hospital. Then finding out that my husband is leaving in just a few weeks. Then I took my dad to get a CT scan done. He got the results a week later. Turns out, he has 2 spots on his right kidney. It’s cancer. He will have a biopsy done on June 14th to find out what kind. We are praying that it is not the same kind that his parents died from.

I’m also moving in less than a month! I have to pack. I have to rent a moving truck. I have to have all the funds available to move in. I have to switch things over to new accounts. Not to mention the week we will be out of town. SO basically I will have to pack up our apartment in like 2 weeks!

There is SO much going on. So much to do. So much stress. It’s very overwhelming.

In other news, we are bringing my stepdaughter home when we go out there for her older sister’s graduation. I am excited. She will get to spend time with her Daddy before he deploys. Unfortunately she has to go back the same day he leaves. (Don’t ask!) That makes me sad. I probably won’t get to see her again until he comes back.

I don’t really know what else to say right now. Life is happening.

In the past 5 years I have moved seven times. SEVEN! And now I am moving again. Call me crazy if you must! Last June I moved in with my now husband. When we found out that he will be deploying we decided that I will move back to my hometown to be close to my family. (Note: I will NOT be living with my parents!) We decided to find an apartment for me to live in close to my family. I went today to talk to the apartment complex about renting an apartment. I originally just wanted a one bedroom apartment since it will just be me living there. Since it had been awhile since I had seen the apartments, and my sister was with me, we went to look at the one bedroom that I liked and a two bedroom with one bathroom. Neither of us liked the 2 bedroom, 1 bath. So I decided on the one bedroom. We went back to the office and found out that there are none available in my time frame! AGH! So I was looking at all the floorplans and prices. I decided to go with the 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom! (as long as everything goes as planned!) Its only about $120 more than the one bedroom, and that is still in my price range. I am SO glad!

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Meet my new apartment! Hehe. I am so excited! I am on my way to put the deposit down with the application right now! We are hoping to move by the end of June. (YAY! I’m getting out of this horrible apartment!) I will update later to let everyone know how it goes! Pray for us!