Quiet

It is so quiet in the house right now it is kind of spooky. The only sound is coming from the doves up on the chimney. My Z is growing up so fast, today I need to go register him for Kindergarten, I know they grow up but I like this age he is at, he still listens to me most of the time. He will go to Kinder and start listening to his friends and ignoring me. J does that now and talks back and I hate it. What can you do about that, is it just a phase. If it is a phase my sister never grew out of it. I punish my kids, they get time outs, get things taken away and I spank them also, nothing seems to work. I even try to talk to them, on their level of course but as always it goes in one ear and out the other.

On a good note Z is progressing well in his Speech Therapy. He talks more plainly and can say most of his S sounds and is working well on his F, Y and L sounds. I am hoping to be done with speech by the end of his Kindergarten year, I really don't like him being labeled as special needs, it could lead to problems later down the road.

I need to buckle down on my own education needs now that both of the boys will be in school full time come fall, I think I have finally decided to pursue education, I am not telling anyone just yet, especially my mother who always puts me down for it. I really don't know why she does it, but it makes me feel so bad, I think that is what has taken me so long to decide what I was going to do for a career. I pursed education right out of high school but I can still remember what she said to me when I told her, You need to be an excellent student to become a teacher and I don't think you will be good enough, now why wouldn't a mother encourage her child to pursue a great field like that. I would be teaching right now or at least have my degree and certification. Don't get me wrong, I love my mother but I think sometimes she just wanted me to be average and not to excel. Oh well enough for the pity.

On other news, I do think we have secured financing on the lot we our purchasing, we are closing on it the 29th.

We Finally did it...

we bought some land, we bought 1.1 acres in Liberty Hill in a subdivision called Cierra Springs. Of course we won't build on it for at least 2-3 or more years but it is there just waiting for our dream house. Hopefully we will stay there for a long time and no more moving. Liberty Hill has great school and for right now still has that small town vibe. Hopefully we will go out there this weekend and take some pics and I will post them, but for right now maybe this will be the house...

Thursdays...

Thursday for me are very stressful for some reason. I guess it is because the weekend is coming and I am trying to get everything done so I don't have to spend my weekend cleaning and doing my homework that is due on Monday. I think that I need to start scheduling out my days. It seems that I lose track of my time and I end up scrambling to do everything on Thursday and Friday.

Now about some good news, we finally found some land, just an acre, that we are going to buy for our future dream home. It is in Liberty Hill, which is a small town but they have wonderful schools that are still small enough so the kids get some individual attention, which is what Z is going to need. Now I am looking into house plans and builders. It is so exciting to be creating and designing your dream home.

I am pulling my hair out...

So we are remodeling the master bath and it has taken Jeremy 4 days to lay the tile in there, meanwhile we are using the boys bathroom and let me tell you I need to get in there and clean more often. It may look clean on the surface but apparently my boys can't aim very well. Anyway Jeremy finally finished grouting the tile this morning so now I need to paint it again, I can't seem to pick a good color so now I am using sagey green tones for the bath and the bedroom.

Ok another reason I am pulling my hair out is that I am taking a algebra class online and I am behind because for some reason last weeks work is not clicking in my brain. Why do you need to know how to divide polynomials. Jeremy helps me some, but instead of explaining it to me he just tells me the answer. I need learn how to do it. Algebra and I have a checkered past, I had horrible teachers in high school so I never really learned anything and if I did learn anything I didn't retain it for future use. I was not blessed with the math gene, I get that, I just wish it would make sense.