insomnia...what

shouldn't just little kids have this on Christmas eve....I need sleep sleep sleep ...now I just want the other guy whose name starts with S to stop by with his bucket o sand lol.....merry christmas everyone if your reading my blog then you one of the people in my life who I love :-)

Things are good

Been a while since I posted ...Things are good I am feeling better Andrew is feeling better ...I have been busy trying to get things ie..my house in order after being sick almost bedbound for the past 3 years in order.......You have no idea how much stuff I still need to get accomplished, to have my home the way I like to have my home ... Along with going out and doing things with the kids and Randy ..This is the first Christmas I have felt good and able to even be in the spirit..Christmas cards have been bought, but not even one has been filled out or mailed off.. So that is lacking, but like I say 'I have been getting so much more accomplished,'its not been something I have been able to get done.... I feel so bad about that ..So many people that I love and want to write letters too :-( I feel really bad about that..... maybe I will be able to get some done on monday **I hope** ... I am down to 170 lbs as of this morning .. Randy says ""I am getting so skinny"" I am noticing that along with losing weight I am gaining wrinkles !!!! I asked Randy this morning "do you want skinny and wrinkle free? or chubby and no wrinkles?" he said "he loves me either way" I said "that was a perfect answer" hehehehe.... ok so I feel better now that I have at least maked a post... I am keeping it short for now,The pics above are from the fun day we had today.. I told the kids to get up get showered and dressed because I had a surprise for them. We went to a activity we have in our town called 'Christmas on Mars' we had never been there before and it was AWESOME the kids loved it, I loved it and Randy loved it ..Andrews Dad John just happened to be driving down the road and seen us crossing the street, so he pulled over and joined us for the day... what a extra nice surprise for Andrew :-)

Its been a wonderful Holiday

Its been a wonderful holiday and a busy holiday.. Andrew and Mindi stayed the night Christmas eve...we went to Randys Moms for Christmas day then to my Moms on Sunday ..There is nothing better than spending the holidays with family ...Rylan was really into Christmas this year, he loved every part, well, except maybe he didn't enjoy meeting Santa to much LOL...
Randy and I both got new cell phones its been 5 years since we have had new phones our were antiques ...
Rylan got lots of fun toys mariocart from aunt Chele~Dee and a remote control spider from mommy and daddy and play dough kitchen and clothes and a remote control helicopter and a wii hunting game with a gun he thought that was pretty cool Randy did the Christmas story stunt and his it till all the other gifts were opened.. Grandma and Grandpa Reding got him some leap frog DVDs and a little jumping spider toy..Gammy Mary and Grandpa John got him a remote control buggy car ...Mindi got him some color wonder pens and paper I can't remember what Andrew got him ...

Rainy Night

and a rainy day glad I hung out some Christmas lights yesterday Rylan loves them so we have them on each evening yeah all 2 nights of them so far LOL

Went to the dentist appointment today this is how it went down ...

Back from the dentist..sat in the car and had a good cry when I got out...I was told that maybe I am to sensitive, but she made it clear that she's not calling me a hypochondriac um OK :-/ I told her no I don't think I am to sensitive, it really hurts and I really am in pain... she said to take Tylenol and Advil together and come back next week if it still hurts and she will take out my filling and give me a temporary filling ....she did the cold qtip test and I just about flew out of my chair that was awful... I have the names of two dentists to call for a second opinion and am not sure which one I should call... I am really done with this place now don't get me wrong she is friendly and the office staff is friendly... but its just weird.. I think someone higher up is pulling the strings !!!!

I can say that the Tylenol/advil combo is working this evening and I am the most pain free I have been in a while :-)

The Tree is up !!!!

We haven't put the ornaments on, but its up...Rylan had a great time helping out... I didn't take any pictures shame on me ........

Saving Money, Paying off some Debt ..

Thats my new goal
Like a early new years resolution::
I bought the book
Total M*ney Make Over..Last week read it and now
am going to put the principles of it to work here..
We have a modest amount of debt and it would of been better for me to find this program while I was still working for Andrew, but, oh well..

I think everybody knows I have doing the groce*y game since January
saving about 60 to 70% on food,shampoo,medicines
Thank goodness I started that when I did as we are now pretty well stocked up on food and health and beauty products..
I can pretty much shop only the sales with coupons..
I did run out of cooking oil over the weekend and was going to pick up a bottle till I seen it was 3-4 bucks for a small bottle.
No way am I paying that much. We are living with out till it comes on a better sale or I absolutely have to have it ..
We have olive oil and that's what I use mostly anyways, vegetable oil is for cakes and brownies and right now I don't really need those...

So anyways we will be Living like no one else, so we can later live like no one else! The next 2 years at least ......
Mindi remembers when we used to live like no one else LOL in the cabin..She loves telling the story about how her friends thought we were dirt poor LOL Well we were pretty poor but we were buying two houses and money was tight, tight, tight for about 3 or 4 years,
I am talking make your own hamburger buns tight, My brother thought that was pretty awesome, said "he had never had homemade hamburger buns before".. We have also had many Christmases that we only bought presents for the kids and even one when we were only able to buy them 1 present each and that was one from Santa...... I don't know if they thought we were bad parents because "we" didn't get them anything only Santa, Mindi it was our first year in the house on E street if you don't remember or have always wondered LOL ..

Anyways we are going back to that kind of poor because with Andrew being gone..We don't have the money from him to help cover part of the bills and of course I have lost my job working for him..So now if Randy was to get laid off, we could loose what we have struggled for all these years and the payoff is just to close to make a risk like that .. If we pay off the house in town we will have that rent as income, right now and for the past 12 years it has only made the payments,taxes and insurance..

So if we could have that as income we would be safe, tight, but safe.. In the past we have always thought if worse comes to worse we would sell it and pay off this house and then not have a house payment but now, nope we have come to far to do something like that ....
So starts a new year of living frugally, very frugally.......