Sunday-a bit of a chill
 

:coffee2: Susie-How did dinner and tv watching go with hubby? Hope it was fun and relaxing. Glad to hear that your accounting class is doing better. Glad the tutitor could help you. I knew it would start click. :bravo: :cb: Great job on the closet clean out yesterday. It always feels good to get organized.

Penny-sounds like everything is set for you great trip. You deserve a to have some fun. Being a stay at home mom can be very difficult. I just get to lazy doing it. I tend to be on here too much when i'm home for a long period of time. :lol:

Eleni-glad to hear about the piano lessons. Where you live with the birds coming to see you in the morning just sounds so pleasant.

Sherri-Hope you are doing well today, and I'm glad the the counseling went well. How are you doing counting points. I think doing it the way you are doing it is great, cuz that leaves you with no choice but to do well. You can't beat the price you are getting it for. I would love that price.

Me-well still trying to pinch myself on the house thing. :cheers: They accepted our bid, and we got preapproved for a conventional loan. We will refinance in a few months with the mortage company/ fha, and bring down our payment about 200 a month. We had to go this route, or we would lose the house, or have to do all the repairs before fha would approve it, and fannie mae wouldn't pay our closing cost. Which this still could be an issue. Long story, but the mortage guy insures me we are in, as long as we don't go buy any major things on credit right now. Can't happen. Gotta have it for the house. I have to call the mortage company tomorrow to make sure they send over the preapproval letter to the fannie mae realtor. I got to thinking I remember seeing this house earlier this summer, and I wouldn't touch it cuz of the price for one, and 2 because of the tree painted on one of the kitchen walls. Like trees and birds but not in my kitchen. There is an old wood burning stove in the kitchen/dinning room. It will be gone. Hopefully we can sell it cuz it can bring 3-6,000 dollars. I checked it out on internet yesterday. Just gotta find someone that will buy it. That would pay for our kitchen being redone, and appliances. We want to put in new counter tops, cupboards, add an additional counter top like a bar, and wood floor. Painting the walls foresure before we move in. If we kept the stove to heat with it would cause a big increase in insurance, not worth it to me. We were thinking about tearing down the wall between the full bath and the half bath, and making one big bath with an entrance from our room. All rooms will need some painting before we move in. The living room only needs touch up on the ceiling. The ceiling is rounded at the top. All of hubbys friends have built houses. They are going to help us paint, and move, and do some of our remodeling. We also must take care of the moisture on the basement walls. We are hoping basement seilant (sp) will take care of this problem. I've been looking at curtains, and appliance on the net will do some more. My mind is going 100 miles an hours. My sister disappointed me yesterday. Thought she would be really happy for me to get a house with my own property, my own basement, and my own garages. Yes there are 2 and a shed in the back that we will redo for the dog, and the top of it will be done for the boys a play room. I don't know if she is mad because we are getting 2 garages with the house or what. She doesn't have her garage yet. The garage on the house may eventually be part of the house. But that is down the road. I showed her some pictures, and all she said is what she saw on the internet, the house was no big deal. Thanks for being excited for me. No the house isn't 1600 sq foot, it's only 1045, but it has a basement. With that, we have 2090 sq feet as far as i'm concerned. Eventually brandon's room, an office for me/sewing room, and a family room will be in the basement, maybe even a shower. The main thing is it's ours. It's our land, It's our house. I don't think she is too thrilled with the location either. I think she thinks I moved where I am just for the hubby. He wanted to be closer to his mom, and his friends. I wanted a house with land, duablity, a walkout basement, (don't know why) I wanted one a little cheaper, but the house by just painting it will have equity in it. The man before us paid 141,000. We just got it for 130,000. Reator says you just paint the rooms and you can sell it for 150,000. Bonus. So it really :( and :mad: and :?: why my sister feels that way. :dunno: Seems like our family lately is just really full of S*1?. and I don't know why. We are going to my parents today, which because of their situation, they probably will never see the house. Oh well such is life.
WEll i've been babbling on and on and on. Hope all is well for you all, gotta do some dream shopping.
Love ya

Bill and I did some big time grocery shopping yesterday.We hit the meat sales. We saved around $130. Will not have to buy meat for months. If we lose power tho I will be screwed. But so far we haven't except for 1 hour yesterday.
I have a tip for those of you that have trouble washing your feet .Most of you can not relate to this but some might. And you may already know this tip. I just figured it out the other day. I'm on the slow side.You need one of those long handled soft bath brushes. I soap that booger up and I can get everywhere on my feet without having to maneuver and be afraid of falling. Plus you only have to lift foot up a little to get to bottom. Which means a lot if you have bad knees.I know it sounds funny to most of you.
If you have any tips pass them on.
Years ago one of our ladies told about using anti perspiring under boobs and under any folds of skin that might get irratated. I had never thought of it. I have done it every since and it does help.
We are always passing on diet tips but everyday tips are important too.
Ok that's it for me.Hope you are having a good weekend

Hello All,
It's been a busy weekend, but a relaxing one. I still have some work on the closets to do; I still need to go through my dressier clothes but that will be another weekend.

DH and I have actually spent some time relaxing this weekend. We rented "Man of Fire" and "The Girl Next Door" and "13 going on 30". We are going over to some friends house tonight and have dinner and watch a movie. I can tell by all the movies we are watching that it's getting to be fall. Time to start staying indoors.

Wendy: CONGRATULATIONS on the house! How exciting for you! It sounds like you are going to have so much fun making it a home. As far as your sister goes, who knows why she reacted that way. I would tend to think that it's because she feels you have something she doesn't? Just try to love her in spite of it. (Not easy to do sometimes, but I always say that the reason God gives us family is because he knows we wouldn't have picked those people to be in our lives but we need them and they need us).

Eleni: Thanks for the shower suggestion. I don't have bad knees but I have this big fear of falling in the bathtub!

Well, I need to go get the kitched cleaned up so we can leave and vist with our friends.

See everyone tomorrow.

Hello, Everyone!
 

Wendy, I am so happy for you getting the house. I know you are really excited and can hardly wait to get the things done so you can move in! It sounds wonderful! Is it in town or the country? Either way, I know you will love it!!!!

Eleni. thanks for the information on washing feet. You know we never think about passing on tips like that. And we should! Just be careful and don't fall! That's what I am afraid of.

Penny, when are you going on your trip? I could just hear the excitement in your voice. How long will you be gone? Have a wonderful time, okay!!!

Susie, sounds like things are working out with your schooling. And, How about coming over and cleaning out my closets? Ha! I need to do that sooo bad, just keep putting it off.

Sherri, how are you doing counting points? It doesn't matter what you do as long as it works for you and you are eating healthy. I think that is a good program. I keep going back to the exchange program. That seems to work best for me, but as I said, what ever works for you!!! The important thing is to eat healthy and get the weight off. And the key is keeping it off. That is as hard as losing it!!

Nita, where are you...hope you are okay.

Christi, are you doing okay? Haven't seen you on in awhile. But then maybe I just missed you.

Anyone I missed, I don't mean to, but will say that I am thinking about you all.

Need to get to bed...so Goodnight All,

TOPS HUgs,
Wanda