What??!!!

I am such a loser. A huge loser actually. I can't believe it's been almost three months since I've posted. It's been on my mind and I've been wanting to get back over here but until this very exact second at 5:04 and 36 seconds PM I haven't been able to. Do you really want to know where I've been? Well, it started like this.....

April. The month when the leaves start coming out on the trees and flowers start to bloom and....wait. It's the month when the leaves start to come out out and flowers start to bloom and what that really means is that my eyes start to itch and swell so bad that I have to go to bed at 7:00 some nights because I literally can not keep them open any longer. I have tried all kinds of allergy medicine and the only ones that work just happen to be the ones that make me want to sleep anyway. I never had this problem in my life until I was pregnant with Alyssa and I think it was some sort of pre-shadowing as to what life with her would be like. Definitley not my "easy" child but I wouldn't trade her for the world.

About the time I was regained the use of my eyes Scott and I decided to buy a new house. We had just paid $800 to have our front and side lawns ripped up and re-seeded because we hadn't been able to grow any grass since we killed it all in 2006. I put in new flower boxes and planted a pretty little herb garden. We were finally getting around to doing some of the things that we couldn't do with two very small children. Then BAM. I saw a house online of all places. It was much bigger, in the perfect neighborhood and best of all it was affordable. Turns out the woman who had lived there passed away last year and her kids were really ready to unload the house so they had it priced to sell. In less than a weeks time we were under contract and waiting to list the house we were living in. We listed that house the next week and had an offer even before the sign was in the lawn. I don't know if it's Karma of plain old dumb luck but something was sure working in our favor.

Moving....it sucks and I don't plan on doing it for a very long time if I can help it. The only thing that can make moving worse is when the head guy comes to you and says "yeah, we have no more room in the truck". Guess we have too much crap. Well at least we now have a bigger house to fit all that crap into, and get some more crap to fill the extra space.

So all my time has been taken up by all the things one does when the purchase an affordable house like painting over awful colors and trying to remove funktastic wallpaper. Once we realized there were FOUR layers in what is to be the girls room we decided to take a second mortgage so we could pay for someone to remove it for us. We didn't really have to take a second mortgage but the wallpaper remover guys are coming tomorrow.

That's my story. I hope you enjoyed it and I promise I will not leave again for such a long period of time unless there is a white jacket and a padded room involved.