Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Annoying neighbor

For the most part they keep to themselves. They are on the board of the neighborhood. They have one son who is an older teen, he learning to drive. Anyway she works at the school and she is quite the bitch though. If a moving/delivering truck blocks her driveway she has to leave and make them move. She had to ask the moving truck to move several times when we were getting our stuff delivered last sept. Then another neighbor was getting a UPS delivery off a semi, and she of course could not wait the 5 minutes for it to be delivered, because she made that truck move to.
Now where does this all lead to? Today she came to the door, returning a wet sock that belonged to my children. I apologized and said I would try to keep them from throwing stuff over the fence. She then went on to say that she had a new puppy, and didn't want it to get a hold of something that would hurt the puppy. I'm thinking what on earth could be going over the fence that would harm a puppy? A plastic toy? A wet sock?
So I guess I'll try to keep the poisoned socks and toys in the yard as to not harm the puppy. :)

Monday, May 30, 2011

The more I think...

The worse off I am. lol I am still trying to decide about this moving thing. We are on the waiting list. Could most likely move in July, but I don't know if I want to. The more I read about on post housing the more I learn that right now there are some bad teens in the neighborhoods breaking into cars/houses and stealing things. I can't deal with that with or without Tony. I am already an easily scared person, so moving to an area that I know is dangerous doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Right now the boys are free to go out and play, but on post the teens are also causing trouble at the playgrounds. I think what I need to do is just wait. The 3 options are: 1. move in July to whatever the army has available. We would have to pay to get everything fixed that has been broken in this house. We save commute time for Tony, but risk the on post threat. 2. Stay here until Tony deploys early next year, pack up our belongings and put them in storage, me and the kids go home for a few months 2-3 and then return and live on post in hopes that the current dangers are dealt with. Or 3. Just stay here the whole time he is gone since we will be moving when he gets back anyway to where ever he re-enlist to go and just take an extended visit home for a month at some point.
I guess the more July sneaks up on me the more I want to stay put and not move. I just don't want to pack. I don't want less space and that is something we will deal with on post. If we stay here Tony wants to talk about getting a more gas efficient vehicle, but I want to wait until he gets back from deployment so that we're not paying insurance and payments on a car that isn't being driven.
Maybe when I go into pay my rent this month I'll set up an appointment with the rental agent and discuss some of the things that need to be done and see what she thinks. I have a fear of living here without a timed lease and just living month to month as I can't just pick up and move with 20 days notice since they don't have to have a good reason to evict us if we're not in a lease. I don't want to just move to another rental, so it's here or post.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Lost

I feel lost when I'm not in school. The semester ended 2 weeks ago and I find myself without something to do. I don't want to spend more time cleaning because I don't want Tony to think school really took that much time so that he may not let me take classes again in the future. The kids still have 3 weeks of school left so there isn't much to go out and do until they get out of school. We're not broke, but we're trying to save for our move in July. I can't decide if I want to move or not. I don't like living where I live. I don't have enough friends out here to keep me occupied especially when Tony deploys next year. I could pack up the kids and go home for several months while he's gone. I just don't know what I want to do. I am lost in translation. :)
This weekend was supposed to be a 4 day weekend, but it never works that way for us. Tony now works Saturday for 24 hours and again on Wednesday. I mean the weather wasn't supposed to be nice, but I was planning to stay home this weekend with my hubby and the kids and just have fun together. Play games and watch movies. Sunday I wanted to take the kids to the zoo since the weather was supposed to be nice, but if he hasn't slept he may not want to go.
I did have a nice day with 2 of my friends today. We took the kids to gymnastics and then to lunch at the yummy Mexican restaurant. The kids were well behaved and we had a nice chat. I take on too much emotion from outside events. Sometimes TV and sometimes friends.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Homeschooling again...

I feel like that is where we are headed now that I have finished out my college classes. We won't begin until fall, but I want to go in fully prepared with lesson plans activities at home and planned outings. But where do I begin?
I have been to the local library and I checked out a book called Third Grade Success. With Zachary going into third grade I want to see figure out what level he's learning at and then go from there. I have a little less concern with Zayden because he's only doing 1st grade. I will do Zavier also if perschool for him falls through that way he can accompany us on all of the field trips.