Annoying Neighbor strikes again...

So I dealt with her the other day. I said I would try to take care of the toys/socks/our stuff going over the fence. All I can do is remind the boys each time they go outside to keep our stuff in our yard. I will do my best, but she hasn't even given this time to work.
Today however I guess she felt the need to address this issue with my kindergarten child at school. She works at the school as a teacher's helper I think. She told him that because she has a dog over there and she doesn't want it to get sick that when toys come over the fence that she just has to throw them away because the dog chews on them. He was upset because she said she had to throw them away. However I am mad because I feel like she abused her privileges at the school to discuss something that shouldn't be discussed at school. I told her I was sorry and that I would take care of there was no need to bring it up with my child. And honestly he isn't the one throwing things over the fence, it would be my 4 year old.
I want to deal with this abuse of privileges with the school, but not sure if I should call, e-mail, or just go there. I don't deal well with confrontation, but I don't word things well when I'm mad. School is almost out, but they still have 2 full weeks plus a few days.

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. :)

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.

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.

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.

Doing it the right way.

Ok so I don't want to talk about the possible government shutdown, but being an army wife I can't ignore what may come next week. However I have fallen off the wagon and bought freely since paying off our car in Feb. We should have been putting about $1000 a month towards our remaining $10000 debts, but we have not. We have also spent through our saving buying DH a required military uniform (about $500 when all was said and done) and just having fun with the family. Now with this possible paycheck loss I don't have built up savings and I'm risking a 1/2 a paycheck. It was just what I needed to pick my crap up and quit buying stuff I don't need and get back to where I'm going to be at the end of 2011. I've recently started buying tons of cloth diapers (more than I need for 1 baby in diapers), and yesterday I started listing them for sale. I have other clothing items listed on a local yardsale site and I will be putting all funds back into my savings so that I never face this again. I'm going to build my savings back up and get back down to business and get all this debt off my back and be one in a time like this who feels sorry for everyone else while I'm still comfortable for several months. So with half our normal pay I can pay all our bills, and buy food for the remaining 2 weeks of the month and put about $250 into the savings for just in case we are still having issues at the end of April.

Ughhh. I hate half days!

I feel like I just got the boys to school and it's now time to run upstairs to shower before I go pick them up. I did get the living room picked up and a few loads of laundry done. Now to fold them so they can put them away when they get home and they have to clean their room. Our house is now a gated facility. ;) We have 2 gates up now to keep the baby monster in the living room where he crawls around in big circles. Zavier went to go to the bathroom and saw I had put up the second gate blocking the way to the bathroom and he's like "How do I get through?" It was funny cause he's been scaling these things for years. lol The other thing about half days that suck is that Zander would like to take a nap now. 50 minutes before we need to leave to get the big boys. I hate that. He has sleep very well the last 2 nights in comparison to the nights before. Night before last he slept from 11:30-4:30 and then about 5-8 in his crib both times. Then last night he slept from about 10:15-3 and then 5-8 in his crib. He gets up to eat and then won't go back to sleep until he's back in his bed. At 6:15 Zachary brought me the fussing baby and I got up and put him back in his bed where he slept until 8. He just has to be wrapped up so that he can't get up on his hands and knees to crawl away and pull up.