Progress

We are moving right along getting the house ready to sell! The painters are here today working on the outside and will be doing some work inside tomorrow. We put the last pickets on the gate last night. Just need a latch. I went this morning and bought a new heating element for the oven. Hopefully Matthew can get that put in this weekend. We're getting down to only one or two things left on the "to do" list! I need to get busy cleaning out and making things look nice so we can start showing the house! We've found one that we really like. Now it's just a matter of seeing about a loan and hopefully getting an offer on my house. Can't wait to see what is in store!

love where I am, love what I do.....

Getting ready for another busy week! Maybe this one will a little less eventful than the last few. I'm not complaining....it's all been good, but I'm ready for a little "normalcy." I SO enjoyed my experience filming the movie, and I will definitely do it again if given the opportunity. It was neat to see the way things are done to make the movies that we all enjoy watching. It was also cool to get the chance to see the "stars" in their working environment and to see them as real people rather than just the characters they play. I would never be able to keep movie star hours though. I'm all for sleeping during the dark time. :-)

Licensure has finally come and gone. And on the day I was gone. Whew. Couldn't have worked that out any better. LoL. Nothing major. I'm anal about my paperwork, so I know it's pretty close to perfect, but even I forget and overlook things, so it always makes me nervous when they're going through my stuff with a fine tooth comb. It's always a big relief when they come and GO!

More house hunting on the agenda for this week. So far nothing that I've walked in and instantly felt that "this is the one." Maybe I won't find that.....but I'm still looking. Have done lots of work at my house this weekend to get it ready to go on the market. All air vents have been scrubbed and have fresh paint. Matthew and his Dad hung the gate yesterday. Still need a few more pickets, but that's it on the fence. Cleaned out my huge closet and packed away things that are too little. There were a lot of those. :-( (I really need to get back on my excercise schedule). Donated two big boxes to CCAPS. Now I'm working on cleaning out the bathroom closet. Who knew I had so much Bath & Body Works lotion!! The painter should be here near the end of the week. We're getting close!!!

Am loving this weather! Wish it were cool enought ro raise the windows and turn off the air for the afternoon. Not quite there yet!

the eve of my movie making debut

So I'm sitting here trying to stay up as late as I can so that I can sleep late in the morning and maybe it will be easier to stay up ALL NIGHT tomorrow night! LoL. I'm old and used to going to bed at 9:30. How in the world am I gonna stay up all night? Maybe there will be enough excitement and other stuff going on that I won't be sleepy! Wonder if they'll reschedule if it rains? We'll be prepared...taking ponchos....but still, how miserable to sit for 12 hours in the rain. :-)

Looked at a few houses today. Absolute no on one of them. One was a great house with almost no backyard. Not really compatible with 4 dogs. And absolutely NO room for a pool. :-( The last one we looked at was AWESOME. Matthew was in love with the shop before we ever even looked in side the house. He would prob live in the shop (which was bigger that my house is now...or at least it seemed that way) Plenty of room for a pool. But too much yard (3 acres) according to Matthew. Loved the house, loved the location. I like that you could stand out in the front yard and not see the other houses nearby or cars passing on the road. There's also a pond. It didn't really excite me that much. Although it was very peaceful to look at. Hmmm.....guess we can put that one on our list of possibililties.

Hoping all the children have a great first day back at school tomorrow. Can't believe Alec is in the 5th grade. Went to meet his teachers today and was really pleased. They both seemed very nice and I believe he's going to have another great year this year.

Well....it's after 11. But I'm getting tired. Haha! At least I stayed up almost 2 hours past my normal bedtime!

Well, guess that wasn't the path I was meant to walk.....so I'll keep walking the one I'm on. Maybe down the road a little further, I'll find a path even better than this one! My prayer was that if this was the right decision, that things would go smoothly. Things didn't go at all, so I guess that is my answer. :-) Something better will come along that is better suited for us.

you spin my head right round

So August is turning out to be even busier than I thought. Not only with work but lots going on at home too! Have spent all this time making sure that things are in place to run smoothly when the time is right. I believe we may have started the ball rolling. I'm praying tonight that if this is the right decision, things will go as planned and if not, I can remember that He knows best and will work it out they way that He sees fit for me. Guess I will continue to pray and see what tomorrow brings!

Another lazy Sunday afternoon

Am enjoying a lazy day today. Matthew is out mowing since today in the first day of sunshine in a very long while. I'm spending time here with laundry, vacumming, cleaning, and a full TiVo. Got a lot to do to get ready for another work week. I only worked 3 days last week because of a conference in Little Rock (which was a waste of time! at least I got 12 training hours out of it) Very glad to be back at home in my own bed with my own routine!

August will be a busy month for me! This will be a big week at the preschool. All 32 of our kindergarteners will be graduating on Friday. It's amazing how much progress they've made...especially the ones that we've had since their 3rd birthday! The next week, we'll only work 3 days, then Mrs. Sara is taking us to Hot Springs for a retreat! But the next week is the one I'm looking forward to the most. I'll be going to Shreveport to be in a scene being filmed for a movie to be released in August 2010. I'm not sure what to expect, but I think it will be cool to see how things are done in the movie business. Who knows....I might have missed my calling. :-)