May and June


More cleaning. More leaving , and more showings! Have I mentioned I don't want to move out of my house? More preparing for Shrimp's grad party. It is very difficult to make picture boards when you have to pick up and leave at a moments notice. Can anyone say "STRESSFUL"?? I happen to have some amazing friends who came to my rescue and helped put the boards all together. (Love you guys!) Prepared and hosted a Prom dinner at our house for Shrimp and friends. Goose finished her classes on the 19th so we made a trip to Eau Claire to pack her up and move her back home. Love that she is home but where do we put all this stuff??!! Yikes!!


Toot and Cowboy were baptised on Mother's Day. Our pastor and his wife had been to the Holyland and had brought back water from the river Jordan and they asked if we would like to use some of it for the baptism. WOW! (we said yes :0} )

May 22nd we sold the house. We were very thankful that the house sold so quickly and for the price we wanted BUT it also drove home the fact that this was really happening. We are relocating to Georgia and the buyers want us out of the house by June 23rd!

Made a little side trip to the emergency room. My heart would not stop racing....hmmmm....I can't imagine why. The Dr. asked what was going on in my life and when I told him he kind of laughed and said I need to relax. YA THINK?? Tests all showed everything was OK. Thank you God.


June

We had our house inspected on June 4th or 5th and we passed with flying colors! There wasn't anything they asked us to fix! YEAH! The night we passed we sprung a leak in the bathroom faucet upstairs. Flooded the bathroom and soaked through a small area of the ceiling downstairs. Shrimp's party is the next day.


The Weatherman and I just throw our heads back and laugh!!! What else can you do??

Shrimp's party was wonderful and exhausting ! He had a blast. We had a blast.

Last day of school Shrimp and E-man (my "other" son)


June 9th was graduation. My baby is out of high school!


June 12th the three older kids head off to church camp where they are all counselors. They retuned on June 19th.
Left Toot and Cowboy with my mom (who was staying with us to help with the move) flew to Indiana rented a car and my sisters and I drove to Georgia for more house hunting. Weatherman flew down a day later. We looked at about 50 houses in 3 days. We found one we liked, put an offer on it and started driving back to Indiana. On the way back we received the news that we were turned down! The people would NOT budge on the price (The house had been empty for over a year!). Still homeless!!!! Flew back to Minnesota.
June 21st was father's day. Our last one in our house. It was wonderful that everyone was home but one of the saddest also. We were saying good-by to Pooh. Do you have any idea how heart wrenching it is to leave a child behind?? I felt like I was abandoning him. Your kids are supposed to go off and leave the you, NOT the other way around!!

June 22nd we sent Shrimp, Toot and Cowboy down to Indiana to stay with Mamaw. The packers come. June 23nd the movers come. I HATED this day!

Weatherman, Goose, my mother and I spent the night with my good friend Jane (Love you Jane). Said good-by to the Weatherman (he is still working in MN) and drove to Indiana.

March and April update! More to come

Where to begin...........2009 has been a rollercoaster ride!! Let's start in March.
March: In like a lion!

Pooh turned 26!!! I have NO idea how a child of mine can be that old.
Mom, dad, my two brothers, and my nephew Ben came up to help get the house ready to put on the market. (I don't want to sell my house) We replace all the interior doors, all the baseboard upstairs and in the entry. We put in new ceilings in the laundry room and in two closets. New lights in the laundry room and garage. Tore up and replaced the carpet in the entire basement. Installed a new vanity in the master bathroom, and painted , painted, painted. Celebrated Cowboy's 9th birthday and packed Shrimp and sent him off on his high school band trip to Italy!!

All in ONE week!!

April: Emotionally cloudy and rainy.
We interviewed realtors. (Have I mentioned I don't want to sell my house?) The moving company came through for a pre-pack walk through. Decluttered, decluttered, decluttered! Did a few more projects the realtor suggested. My 49th birthday and our 28th anniversary came and went. The stager came to make my house look not like my house. It did look very nice, just not mine. Flew to Atlanta to start looking for houses. Got the house listed on the 21st with a Realtor Open House.....Clean the house, leave the house, showing.
Clean the house, leave the house, showing. Start planning for Shrimp's graduation party. Clean the house, leave the house, showing.

Toot and Cowboy did an amazing job of keeping their things picked up and beds made!

One Month After Surgery


One handsome , happy boy!!

New blog link

Just added a new link to a wonderful blogsight! Very inspiring ideas for your home!

After Surgery / Coppin' a 'Tude

One day after surgery

Three days after surgery


Five days after surgery

And Lil' Miss 'Tude


Gotcha Day #5 / Surgery Day

June 2004
Toot in the tub shortly after coming home from China


Cutie Tootie and Pretty in pink Today was the 5th anniversary of the day this precious girl has first placed in my arms!!


Our lives have been transformed. We can't even imagine our world without her in it.


One of my favorite words to describe her is "Quirky". Some days she is a cowboy. Some days she is a dog. Some days she is a super model. All days she is a joy!!!!

Toot wanted "waffles with a candle in it" for breakfast
After she came home from school she wanted to go to Walmart and out for lunch.
For her special gift she chose a new cowboy hat and a Mickey Mouse cell phone.
She is the cutese cowgirl in the whole state of Minnesota!!!!!
And now for surgery Day
This was an exciting day for Bebo (or at least is started out that way).
Today he had his lip revision surgery done. He has been looking forward to this for some time. In China he was told over and over again how ugly he was because of his lip. When we told him it was going to be fixed he didn't believe us. He would say "In China they say can't fix!" to which I would say "Well, in America we say , Yes it can!" He was so excited last night that he had a hard time falling asleep. This is a picture of him taken before he left for the hospital. Why would anyone tell this handsome boy he was ugly???????????????????????????
And this is a picture of him after he came home. He looks a little like he was hit by a truck!! He's not so sure yet if it was worth it. I can already tell a difference even with all the swelling.
Hang in there Bebo!!

Fun with the Pent 6

Last night we had our good friends over for a long overdue visit!! It was wild and crazy and loud and wonderful!!!!


6 China babies in the house!!!!! We love you guys!!


(and yes Miss Scarlet I love you too! :o} )