Wife and Mom of 3

I’ve been busy with the 3 kids this summer and Monday the older two go back!!! YEAH!!!  Anyone else as excited as I am?!  Know what THAT means?! Between job hunting, I’ll have more time to clean/organize my house, blog, read, and job hunt!!  The kids are actually excited about starting school and tomorrow will be the big day to find the perfect outfit, straighten my daughter’s unruly wavy hair the night before, prepare lunches, and HOPEFULLY get to sleep by 9pm!!  I say hopefully because mine are night owls like their daddy and I and that has GOT to stop since we’re going to have to wake up by 6am to dress and eat breakfast so we can leave the house for school by 7:15 to get to the in-laws in time to catch the bus by 7:45.  OMG…Do you know that since we’ve been out of school we’ve ALL been waking up between 9 and 11am?! That OBVIOUSLY is going to have to STOP!! 

These past two days I have ACTUALLY gone through my 4 drawer file cabinet and the PILE of bills and papers on my floor next to my bookcase.  I’m TRYING to get better organized and clear out my reading section in my room.  This week I even need to contact all of the credit agencies and get updated copies of our credit reports and see if there is anything I can get rid of on the list.  I want to be able to BUY a bigger home in about 2 years!!  At the rate we’re going now, I don’t see how that will ever happen! UGH…

Last Thursday we visited the kids new school, met their teachers, and even fdiscovered that some our my current girlfriends have kids that attend there as well as some of the boys from son’s football team!  It’s about TIME!!!  I’ve been tired of going to schools where I don’t seem to know the parents and kids that well.  Which now means mine have more friends to play with outside of school!  The new school they will be attending is about 5 years old and STILL looks brand new!  No more cubby sharing for the kids and I just have a good feeling about this school.  In addition…the local rec center is in the same center the Elementary and Highschool is located which means that during off seasons they can attend activities at the rec center right after school to keep them active at a CHEAP deal!  My oldest daughter loved Tae-Kwondo and that’s one of the activities they have and it’s only $20 a month for an hour a week! 

My oldest daughter had her first soccer game today after only having had TWO practices.  I was a bit worried that it was too soon since this is her first year…but I was SOOOO proud of my goalie/right defender!!  I hate that my digital camera is not currently working (I think I’m going to have to add it to my Christmas/Birthday wish list)!!  Although I think I’m now going to have to start running with her during the week to help her get her speed up as far as hustling to get the ball.  BUT that will be a good thing for me as well.

Little man has been having a BLAST with football, his dad has been loving acting as one of the assistant coaches and I’m enjoying getting to know all the parents as the Team Mom.  They seem to all flock to hubby and I more than the head coach which is rather funny but the head coach has praised us for all of our help with the team.  It’s rather cute watching little man tackle…he looks like a jumping squarrel and the funniest thing is that he is the TINIEST on the team so his tackling is definitely going to trip out and surprise his oppenent in the game!  This work he wore his full gear and that child reminds me of that Gimli guy from The Lord of the Rings since he was the shortest stockiest; not that mine is stocky but, with all the padding it’s hilarious!! 

Monday my youngest daughter and I and I are going to head to Social Services in hopes of being able to apply for NC Health Choice for all 3 kids (if we get approved it will only be $100 for ALL three for the entire YEAR!).  Right now we’re spending $700 for our current medical insurance plan and it’s KILLING us with me not working!  That’s the cost of both of our vehicle payments which means we’re nearly $700 in the hole each month and now $700 OVER BUDGET!!! UGH…how can you get debt free and save when you’re SOOO in the hole without filing bankruptcy?!  UGH…I SOO need to take advantage of the Angel Food Ministry program (which is and AWESOME food program that EVERYONE qualifies for) but everytime I say we will, the money is always needed for some other thing! UGH…SOOO rebudgeting is something I need to redo this week…

I did open up my own checking account through Washington Mutual (WAMU) for the first time since I’ve been married (my checks even arrived today and I placed the order this past Wednesday through Vista Prints free checks deal!  This will help me feel a bit more indepent now again.  We’ve always had joint savings and checking and then I had a prepaid card that I had set my own personal allowance into when I was working but recently I’ve stopped using it since I can’t seperate my unemployment checks into multiple accounts. 

Tuesday I hope to get my in-laws to watch the littlest so I can go ahead and enroll with 3 other contracting agencies because SURELY out of 4 agencies, SOMETHING HAS to come up!! 

Lately i’ve been heavily engaged with my 2 blogs that I’ve redone and found niches for.  You should check my other blog called The Book Faery Reviews: www.tbfreviews.wordpress.com.  I am not a professional writing but I’ve been enjoying myself and I’m so proud of myself! I love these two so much better than the ones I had done before and they are definitely more me.  Can’t believe it took me so many different ways to get ones to really suit me. 

I’ve been getting books from new authors and publishers through Cafemom & LibraryThing to review books so I’ve been reading alot.  I feel like new books are coming in weekly lately!  Though I’m not being paid for my reviews at least I’m getting brand new books for free!!  I just LOVE reading!  I’ve been working on improving my blog audience and networking with others in the same area of blog niche.  This has defintely been helping me feel at least a little accomplished AND it’s great to journal your thoughts and experiences (course I do do it without adding our names to keep SOME sort of anonimity).

I’ve been practicing more Reiki lately as well.  Does WONDERS for the two year old to help her sleep, some of my friends (and even hubby) have let me work on them and it’s amazing when I can FEEL the exact spot of their problems PRIOR to them telling me what’s been ailing them!  I might need to try it on the two older ones before bed to help them relax enough to sleep at night.  

So…anyone as excited as me to get the kids back into school?!  The ONLY thing I’m dreading though is OBVIOUSLY all the homework…