My battle with my Tomboy

So... CJ... The battle over the clothes she wants to wear and her HAIR is getting more interesting. Since I can't remember being an 8 yr old girl, I don't remember being like this. Although I do remember in 1st grade coming home and telling my Mom(who use to put me in poofy, huge dresses) that I was done with the dresses. CJ is done with dresses, done with skirts, done with pink or any other girly color, done with JEANS, done with jean shorts, capri's, ect.ect. What does that leave, you may ask?? She wants to wear jersey's, soccer shirts, cole's t-shirts, sweats, soccer shorts and sweat shorts every day, ALL DAY. When I bring a tank top(plain and without designs on it) and some jean shorts to the child, her face looks immediately ugly and she is like.. PLEASE NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! I try my best to look through her very cute wardrobe to find the ugliest thing so she'll not give me drama. But if it's not a t-shirt and sweat shorts there is no hope for being drama free. She doesn't want to wear earrings anymore and if you say she looks CUTE, then she says please don't call me that, cute is a bad word to her!! I laugh at her so much because when I'm not finding clothes for her I think she is hilarious. But then I don't find it funny every morning when we are going somewhere and I have to punish the child to put on some jean shorts to go to church. This weekend we went by a friends garage sale to help her load some stuff and she had so many racks of girls clothes that were so nice and practically new and all the sizes would fit CJ. So she says, look through and take whatever you want. CJ's head was hanging out of the truck and I'd hold one thing up after the other to a child shaking her head with a puke face on. Her face lit up once when she thought I was holding up black soccer shorts with white stripes on the side...until I brought it closer and she realized it was a skirt. My friend was like..wow that's intense..So, we are working on it. She's been not as fussy the last few weeks because she's tired of being punished. She makes a puke face and let's it be known she is NOT liking wearing normal white shorts but she hasn't been arguing! The battle continues..Me trying to let her be her and understanding her need for total comfort 24-7 and her meeting me in the middle somewhere in the land of absence of color and jean shorts..

Wow

Okay so I really, seriously found somewhere to live! I am so completely jammin on this place! This was the last place I looked at and there were three other couples wanting to rent it, so I didn't think my chances were all that fantastic but...after meeting the woman who owns it, she called me literally 10 minutes after I left and said it was ours!! I was no joke running around the house smiling up to heaven yelling thank you, thank you, thank you!! I know this is just a place and everything but I am just really happy about settling into this place with my family for this next little part of life. It's not fancy or anything, it just feels like a home should feel, not a hotel! Now I feel like I can breathe a bit. We're coming up on two weeks now until we are out of our house. I have started packing, having a little garage sale this weekend. My parents are going to take care of our Spencer which lifts like a huge brick of stress off my back as well. Sooo yeah for the parents and the new place. We haven't heard from the buyers what they want us to fix from the inspection but we heard from our realtor that there was nothing major wrong at all and if there was something they wanted fixed it would be minor. So that makes me feel so happy..We had some drama fixing stuff the last couple days so to know that it won't be anything else major is like a beautiful dream~ Deep sigh....in a good way.

Ugh......

Well I think I found a place to live but now I am second guessing it and starting to get a little nervous. The place we found is a townhouse(every other house or duplex, townhouse has wanted a year lease) and it seriously is so, so, so tiny. There isn't even anywhere for a dining room table!! So at first I was ok with this, until I got to thinking that how in the world are we going to live somewhere for months and months and possibly MONTHS without room for even a table? So I am now thinking about shipping my bigger dog out to my parents to babysit while we move into the apartment instead. Even the apartment has a place for a table! If I can only worry about little Bosley at the apartment then life could be so much easier. So I have to sweeten the folks up and see if I can work this out. In like a couple days that is....
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where oh where are we going to live...???

Looking for a place to live these last couple days has been weird. It still feels like this isn't happening for real. Like how did we sell our house in a day?? In the worst market ever?? God is truly, truly the master of all things. Timing is His specialty and apparently we should leave Him to handle it because He does it AMAZINGLY! So..I am going to look at a few more places tomorrow, we'll find something. I can't imagine God wants us to sell our house so we could achieve homeless status, so all will be well. I haven't packed one dang thing either. Even though I have to be out of this house in three weeks. Hmm...maybe that should be on the things to do list. Like somewhere near the topish of it...I think I was looking stressed today or maybe it was that I was hiding in bed at 6:00pm with the covers up over my head that made Nate think I was depressed or something..? Hmm.. well anyway, he always makes me feel better. He assured me that he never lets me down and he always knocks things out(then made punching fists and hit the air around him)when needed. He always makes me laugh and I felt better. Until......I walked out of the room and was going downstairs and noticed the wood ledge right by my front entry way...I glanced at it because I thought I saw something on it.. Then I looked a little closer...and I did see something on it... it said.. CJ, COLE, KENDAL FISCHER... and it was SCRATCHED DEEPLY, DEEPLY, DEEPLY into the wood. Ummmm.....I summoned all three children to the front and pointed at the wood. Cole says, Not me,Kendal's like whaaattt's happening?? So that left only one... So, Miss CJ's explanation was that she wanted to leave their mark so they could never be forgotten.. Well Miss CJ went to bed at 6:00pm and I am sure that the new tenants won't be able to forget them either...

We can acutally camp..

I haven't been camping since I was a little kid. And then you just don't realize all the work it takes to go camping. You go camping to relax and be with nature I suppose and spend time with your family. Camping is pretty relaxing after you do a whole bunch of stuff to make it relaxing. The kids were so all about it. They helped put everything up and were awesome. I was really nervous after just 5 minutes of being there I see a tick chilling on my shoe. Hmmmm...did I seriously agree to go camping in Misseri with the ticks? Well there were lots of ticks on kids, tents, sleeping bags,ect.. we still might have some on us that haven't gotten full enough for us to see them yet. But other than that I could handle the spiders and million other weird bugs. The weather was awesome. We made all of our food over the campfire in pots and ate lots and lots of smores. We fished, swam, told stories, played games and adventured(what the kids called walking through the forest)and it was well worth it. Kendal said she wanted to go home about 20 times because of all the bugs but she adventured and pushed through. Cole and Nate stayed up late every night having boy time and Cole told me today with tears in his eyes that spending that time with his Dad was the best time and he loved it. We made good memories and I am looking forward to doing it again somewhere less ticky...

I love Summer(not the weather)

I have seriously been enjoying myself lately. I haven't had to work the last three summers but it must be that since the kids are getting older my summer experience just keeps getting better. Nate walked into our bedroom yesterday morning and I was just waking up and the clock was reading 9:14am and he just laughed and shook his head and said.."WOW you seriously have the good life! All the kids are still asleep, even the dogs and you are just opening your eyes!" I had to thank him for my current situation and agree it was pretty dang good. The kids don't come into my room in the morning. They are playing Wii or watching cartoons..eating some form of breakfast and mostly getting along(I think because I really don't know since I am sleeping) since I don't hear screaming. Other than cleaning A LOT to get the house ready to sell it's been an awesome start to the summer. These older kids are a pretty good deal. They carry up the laundry, hang up their own clothes, feed themselves, wipe themselves and I am teaching CJ to even do laundry so I can have my dream come true of never doing it again. Cole is putting dishes away even in the DISHWASHER. I am loving this! They are totally still destroying the dang house but they are helping to fix it back up a little with little to no complaining yet..they aren't sucky teenagers. This morning I actually had to be at a meeting so I had to roll out of bed at 7:00am and I'm not gonna lie, it was tough. Kendal was awake in her room playing with her dollhouse and she said,"Mama you're awake so early!" I don't know how she even knew it was early. Maybe it wasn't so sunny and everyone else was still asleep. Or maybe she can tell time and one of the kids taught her already when I've been sleeping in until 9:30. Anyway, she asked if I could help her turn the Wii on and then she looked so sad. I said," what's wrong?" She says,"I really, really, really want CJ to be awake to help me with the pizza guy" I told her she should go ask CJ if she wants to wake up. Then she looked at me like I was crazy and she says," I can't do that!!!" I laughed and said why not?? Kendal very matter of factly says," because she will count to ten on me and if she still sees me in her room by 10 SHE WILL DO SOMETHING VERY BAD TO ME!!" I laughed so hard my eyes were watering... Oh man. I love my kids and I love this summer...

Stormin it up

Tonight we are getting pummeled by severe thunderstorms...thunderstorms seem severe to me all the time, so I guess the weather people get to decide what is considered severe or not. There is crazy hail smashing into the windows, wind, we've had two tornado siren warnings the last hour and Miss Kendal is not a happy chick. She is panicked and nervous. Our T.V. has been out for the last two hours and she wants me to sit and watch the weather on the computer so she can know where the storm is and where that tornado is! Only sometimes do I get freaked out with thunderstorms and tornado warnings..but we've had quite a few lately and I have to admit I have been a little shook up about this one tonight. A lightening bolt set a gas plant on fire, lightening struck a few people in houses...just one of those nights. As I've been praying, I just keep thinking about the power of the weather and how we are at it's mercy. As humans we try to figure out how to work, maneuver, control everything and yet this we just sit and wait for it to take it's course. Thunder sounds incredible and terrifying.. I can't imagine the literal power of our Almighty God when things like weather are things He has control over and has created. Wow...