Limbo and happenings

 As you all know, we are in limbo.   We have been living with my parents since June first, then we started the process of building a new house...that we were supposed to close on last Friday.

The weekend prior to that Mike took a job in Midland. I'm not upset about losing the "old" new house. FOR REAL, the second we signed on it...something just didn't feel right.  Maybe it was the stairs that shot straight down or that fact that it backed up to a major street.  A lot of the living space was upstairs when I cook and do laundry downstairs. The biggest downfall of all was that it took Mike a little over an hour to get to work and after work it was even worse.  He would leave the office at 5 and would't get home by 6:30. BIG PROBLEM.  Lesson learned. If we ever get the opportunity to move back to Dallas again we will live close to where he is working and not try to make it work by living in Mckinney just to be close to parents.  So now, for the 4th time this year we will have a different address and for the 3rd time this year we are in the process of purchasing a new home.  Hopefully we will be in this one longer than 4 months!!!

Isn't she great?!  Now, who wants to road trip to Midland?  I can't tell you how eager I am to get settled. SHEESH.  I'm ready to set up house and cook in my own kitchen, sleep in my own bed, set up sweet Molly's nursery that she was only in for 4 weeks.  I mean, I almost have to have another baby so they can be in the same nursery their whole little infant life (unless we move, again...LORD HELP ME!!!)  We close in 4 weeks. I'm ready. I'm adaptable. I'm ready to make new friends and follow my own advice once again to "BLOOM WHERE YOU'RE PLANTED".

Here are some other things going on right now: 

1.) First Cowboys home game this Sunday and we will be without kids...I plan on getting ridiculous.

2.) Mark's eczema is flared up due to his allergies and he's is scratching at it all the time, today when I went to take him out of the car to go to school he had picked a scab and had blood all over his cheek. I spit on a paper towel and wiped it off. Mother of the year.

3.)  Mike took me on a hot date to downtown Mckinney, we sat outside the wine bar.  Lucky for him, the antique store across the street stays open late on Saturday.  He bought me a giant "P" for the new digs. I like him a lot, still.

4.) I'm making crockpot Hawaiian chicken tonight for dinner. THANK YOU, PINTEREST.

5.) This weather makes me want to go buy boots in black, brown, and gray.

6.) I've been watching youtube videos on "how to make a poly deco mesh wreath".  I will be making one for my new front door.

7.) All the new furniture and fridge we bought for the first new house is ready to be delivered but now we don't have a local house for it to be delivered to. big problem. working on this.

8.)  When I went out to my car to load the brood up for mother's day out today I had a flat tire.  We had to call for some rescue (under warranty! yay). Mark was 1.5 hours late for school and my time in the infant room at the gym had past so I didn't get to go.  What a way to start off a week. WHOOMP WHOOMP!

9.) Purchased my first pumpkin spice latte of the season yesterday.

10.) Molly Popino just happened to be born with like this extra dose of beautiful. For real. She snorts when she laughs too. I'm obsessed with her!

Stay Positive- KPOP

BIG NEWS....

It seems like we always have something going on.  Here is our pattern:

Get pregnant, have baby, then move.  If this is our pattern...we just moved...so...well...now....PYSCH!

 We're moving. AGAIN! Yes, we just moved home. Yes, we were building a house. Yes, we will have moved 3 times this year. We are becoming quite nomadic if you ask me.  I'm ok with that though, life is never boring and there is a new city to tackle. Where you ask is this super exciting new adventure going to take place????

WHATCH OUT MIDLAND, TEXAS THE POPINO'S ARE COMING FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!
Please stay tuned for details. 

Timeline

Ok, so recently Facebook forced me into a timeline.  Now, at first I was resenting it but as I am up tonight (Mark fighting fever, just fed the butter bean) I got super curious and decided to take a stroll down memory lane...

First of all may I just say that I was a complete train wreck from ohhh 2005-2007?? Dang.  All I got to say.  There are people that I was friends with on FB that even after looking at their picture...I have absolutely no idea who the heck they are.  HA!  A lot of posts read..."had so much fun with you last night!" Hey, I know I've always been fun but I think I was having too much inappropriate fun.  Thank goodness those days have come and gone. Those years I'd like to put in my regret file and move on.

2008 got better. A LOT BETTER. After I cleaned up my act and started getting back on track with school...Mike decided that I was responsible enough to marry.  We got engaged, married, honeymooned, moved to CO, I student taught and graduated (finally).  That was a good good year and its been good ever since.

GAH, isn't change amazing?  Do you look at yourself 6-8 years ago and think that you're better off now? Going from a wild, irresponsible, party animal to a wife, mom, and all 'round bad A. I'd say, in my case YES!

I'm thankful for change and growth.  I'm thankful that as the years are passing and my "dark days" are trailing behind me even further.  I'm thankful for grace, forgiveness, and repentance. 

TIMELINE- thanks for giving me a little ego boost tonight.  You took me to a place a haven't revisited in a long time but something a about reliving that time in my life made me EXTRA EXTRA grateful for my life now! Man, change is so sweet.

Stay Positive- KPOP