Not At Home

Two years ago my family finally fell under the bankers almighty ax and lost our fight in the foreclosure ring. With me having been at home with the kids for 10 years, having had 4 kids and only 1 income, we were doomed. So with nowhere to turn and jobs next to impossible to find unless you have a Ph.D to flip burgers, we turned to my Father in Law. Now we've been here for 2 years and it's become one of those things where every extra minute drags on for an eternity. We never do anything right, the kids make to much noise, everything is a mess, we breath to loud and since we don't smell old, we stink. Now some might think I'm ungrateful, that we could have been out on our hind ends, but I'm not. I'm very grateful and DO realize what he has done for us.

One of the complaints around here is about the thermostat, we're not allowed to have it lower than 80°. It's hotter than hell in this house in the evening, I mean 2 fans in the living room and it's still like being outside. So usually we turn it down to 75° when he's gone (which is most of the time) and make sure to turn it back up when he pulls into the drive. Today though, it was awful, and Daddy S went downstairs to see if my FIL had tripped the breaker or not. Do you know what he found? FIL had wired in a secondary thermostat in his room. Can we say oh emmm geeee? Yeah, no wonder when they went down south to fix grandpa's cars, I couldn't get this house cooled off.

Anyways on the upside of it all, we have a house down the street that we will eventually get to move into. There's some (in my estimation) minor work that needs to be done to it, but it's taking forever. Daddy S and I have started painting, while FIL has spent the last 4 months re-doing the storage barn out back. Eventually we'll get to move in and that will be a glorious day for me, but until then, I'll continue to hold my tongue as much as I can.

Backgrounds and Pickiness

After hours of trying to figure out which background I wanted, and there were a ton I liked, I've grown tired of searching. I think I'll settle down with my kids and watch a movie.