He's got a package for you.....

A little confession......I am a shopaholic!!! I was doing so good when we first moved here but now with Tim working and with his new pay raise and oh I got a raise and didn't even know it whooo hooo, it's been nearly impossible for me not to get a little crazy. 

So the other day I was teasing Tim and said the UPS guy is going to think I'm stalking him because he is literally delivering packages about every other day--I do all my shopping online, for obvious reasons so I get a lot of packages.  Very seriously Tim asked me if it was the hot guy.  HUH? Well actually I hadn't noticed, I'm not really one of those desperate housewives that go around checking out other men, sorry babe.

Then he told me that apparently there is this hot delivery man that goes around making women every where very happy to get their packages.  Then he told me that he can always tell when he has stopped by his work because there will be a stack of packages and the lady at the front desk with be glowing and smiling from ear to ear. 

At first this made me laugh and I thought about this stupid old movie call Loverboy where the pizza boy delivers pizza to lonely woman and . . . .  I also thought about the guy every girl went on and on about when I worked at the University who was built like the rock and gorgeous and I had to meet him, and he was the sole reason about 90% of the women showed up to work everyday.
 
Nope I didn't go out of my way to meet this guy so I guess I will never know of his extreme hotness.  

Now instead of getting all giddy when my packages arrive I'm so paranoid.  Now that my husband mentioned it this delivery guy really does go out of his way to make his customer happy.  Normally ups delivers just drop the packages and run but this guy waits at the door for me to come get his package which is really annoying because a few times I've been working and had to take a break because he wouldn't leave the packages with my girls and kept asking if their mom was home.  Then when I got to the door to get the packages and I asked if I needed to sign anything he said nope, and just smiled really cheezy  ARRRGGGGG.   Then yesterday after about 10 minutes of him waiting at the door I went to answer it, so he would leave I got a fantastic view if his butt--apparently he had to tie his shoe on his way back to his truck lol.  I now make sure I look hideous any time I have a package coming--sweat pants, no make up, hair messy, glasses etc. given my history of crazy stalkers, I can't be to careful.  I guess this creep is a blessing in disguise because I think I've been cured of my addiction to shopping, but my darling husband has totally sabotaged me because I just checked my amazon shopping cart and he has about 3 text books arriving, a backpack and two other packages coming soon, so I will have to be convenient gone with those packages arrive.    

Wow What a Week

Of course I'm not going to blog everyday that would be ridiculous, but once a week. . . we will see.  The first couple of weeks of the new year have been fabulous!! my husband got a $2.50/ hour raise and he's only been with the company for 3 months.  It's so amazing what can happen when you just take that blind leap of faith no matter how backwards, hard, scary or counter productive it may be.  It didn't make sense for my husband to quit his high paying career during the worlds biggest economic crisis, pack up our family away from great schools, and friends, and move out of our gorgeous home, and move to a tiny town with no job, and no place to live.  But we jumped and it has been the best experience ever!  We have a place to live--mortgage and rent free, I was able to keep my job and my husband now has a new job and a works for people who are amazing, and his own business has exploded with projects he almost doesn't have time for, the girls are in an amazing school and we have so much more time to make a difference and actually start living.  I am so so blessed and grateful.  Anyway I'm living proof to just have faith and trust in God.   So my husband came home with the amazing news that he was given a raise and said something I never ever would have heard come out of his mouth in a million years if we hadn't left, and that night as we were about to fall asleep he says to me "you know I feel pretty successful right now."  Oh that was music to my ears--of course he has always been extremely successful as long as I've known him, but no matter how much he was promoted and compensated or recognized or praised he never felt successful, like success was just a few more steps ahead and he couldn't ever reach it.  I'm not sure exactly what finally clicked inside, but he now has this amazing outlook, and fire of self confidence that is irresistible.  Ok live is good enough said.  So we took the kids out to the duck ponds and they rode their scooters around the gazebo, we went out for dinner and lunch a few times, and just did normal family stuff, like bed time stories, game nights, and all the little things that make life sweet.  I can't wait to see what the new year brings.

Day 6

Today I'm grateful for modern Psychology.  So the other day we made our little chore magnets and this morning the girls woke up and did chores without even being asked a mothers dream come true.  We went out to lunch and we stopped by a house we found last night on the MLS.  It's gorgeous and big enough for our basketball team plus one.  I called the realtor but we can't look inside until Monday.  I love my little shack of course but I figured we better look for a bigger place before the girls go stir crazy.  New year goal get our credit in shape to be able to buy a house when needed.  In the mean time it's fabulous not having a morgage payment. 

Day 4&5

Day 4 was pretty much fantastic!!!  I went shopping with my dad then we took Tim out to lunch at La Casitta the girls went back to school, and then when Tim got home he had some really great news.  We celebrated with a friendly game of Mario--I lost horribly ...Perfect day.
I'm grateful playtime with my kids, it keeps me happy and young.

Day 5 umm the new year has started of with minor hiccups like we all are a little sick and the house has been pretty much a disaster, so we made little chore magnets and we will be starting a chore chat asap.  I'm one of those people that like to do it all myself.  My girls never really have had chores, occasionally we do a quick 10 minute pickups, but moving from our 3000 square foot house with a three car garage and an attic to our tiny shack, no garage or attic it's been a disaster, so I'm cracking the whip and demanding order--ok maybe just a little brain washing that cleaning is fun. 

I'm grateful for modern technology like dish washers and clothes washers and dryers, if it wasn't for them I'd spend two lifetimes cleaning instead of one.

Day 3

Today I'm so grateful for my warm toasty blanket. My heart just aches for all those starving, homeless and struggling people out there. I think I was born with the mother T. gene because I just constantly have these desires to help people and it started a young age I'm told. It almost feels like a natural part of life like breathing, it really is hard to explain and it's kinda annoying having to hear " you're to nice, you smile too much" or people making a big fuss over the things I do. I don't feel like I'm being nice I'm just being . . . Anywho no picture for you today because I'm snug in bed under covers, and so so blessed.

Day 3

Today I'm so grateful for my warm toasty blanket. My heart just aches for all those starving, homeless and struggling people out there. I think I was born with the mother T. gene because I just constantly have these desires to help people and it started a young age I'm told. It almost feels like a natural part of life like breathing, it really is hard to explain and it's kinda annoying having to hear " you're to nice, you smile too much" or people making a big fuss over the things I do. I don't feel like I'm being nice I'm just being . . . Anywho no picture for you today because I'm snug in bed under covers, and so so blessed.

Day 2

Ok today I'm very grateful for my amazing job!  I have been working for G.E. for about 4 years now and I love, love, love it!  Best part I get to work from home.  My hubby gets to work from home too as a designer but he also works for an Engineering firm and is a full time student, so it's nice to have some flexibility with our hectic lifestyles by not having to commute or deal with daycare oh and I honestly do work in my pjs.  I think it's kind of adorable how different our working environments are.  Mine is a tiny little computer given to me by my employer and my husband has these two massive monitors and basically a super computer because he is well a geek.   Until tomorrow.

Project Life Day 1

Happy New year!  So my ridiculously awesome husband bought me a rebel for Christmas so I'm going to learn how to be a photographer.  My dad was a photographer--one of the many many secret talents he has, and my brother also is a videographer so hopefully like my good looks it's a matter of genetics and I don't have to work at it--I'm just teasing.  So for the new year I've decided to take a picture a day and blog or write about it.  Don't laugh I can do this.  I think I will for good measure include a gratitude journal as well.  So let's get started!

GRATITUDE--this day I'm so grateful for my little man Benjamin.  To be honest I never really wanted to have a boy I was perfectly happy with a house full of girls, but from the moment of the first sonogram where our very proud little fellow flashed Tim the family jewels than gave him the thumbs up {the tech thought it was the most precious thing she had ever seen so she took several pictures of that hilarious moment}  I have been so madly in love with my ball of pure energy.

This picture was taken as we rushed out the door to church--one of the few Sundays we were on time, oh did I mention we now go to chuch at 1:00 p.m. instead of 9:00 a.m.  What I find so adorable is I was wearing a silver skirt and my husband without me asking cordinated his tie and our sons vest to match me--lol yep I'm one of those crazy moms that likes to color cordinate outfits.  I just thought it was adorable that my hubby picks up on my tiny little quirks, no matter how creepy they may be. 

See that wasn't to bad 1 day down only 364 days to go.