In about two hours Gerry and I are leaving for a four hour drive to pick up our new home away from home.

I am a little nervous about the whole thing. It looks great and we agreed on a very good price, I just hope when we get all the way there that there are no surprises with it.
Also, even though we have a big truck, F250 and the best hitch and sway package, I am still nervous about the drive home, we have never pulled any thing this big before, 36 feet is a lot of trailer.

Wish us luck.

Thank you Aunt Toni !

After much painful arm twisting I am posting these for my good friend Janet,

Director Mark Romanek and Academy Award winnig actor Benicio Del Toro, rehearsing for The Wolfman.

More Beni stalking under the cut -

One thing I noticed last night at meet the teacher night is a lot of the other mom’s and a lot of the younger teachers had really big hair. Not long, they had shorter really cute cuts but it was big and puffy, even ratted a little.
So what I am wondering is, did “big” short hair come back? Or is it on it’s way back? What do you think?

Yep, I met her and I like her.  Really I have met her before around the school and she is very nice. I left the classroom feeling that my third grade daughter is in very good hands during the day.
Then I went down the hall to where they serve the cookies and refreshments and did the unthinkable, no I didn’t join the PTA, I am not that easily sold. I signed Allison up for Brownies. It’s some thing she has been begging me for, hopefully it works out and my little lizard and snake lover gets along with the other girls.

Well, I made it over another hump day. I credit my red wine and chocolate cake for that! I for one will be so happy when the weekend is here and I can relax a little.
Tonight I have meet the teacher night at Allison’s school. I really don’t mind this night every year. It’s a chance to check out the class room and meet the teacher on good terms with a room full of parents. It’s the one on one sit down meetings that I really dread.

If there is one thing I know I can count on it is my blogging friends.
Even when I have a day like today, and come home to a twenty year old girl’s drama, a barking out of control dog and an eight year old holding a teachers note that says she talks too much.
For your emails of support and your emails that make me giggle I thank you!
Now, I am taking my glass of red wine and slice of chocolate cake up stairs to my bedroom, closing the door and watching a movie.
I dare any one to walk through my door and bother me, I just dare them.

I keep praying that my daughter will get her life together. Not just for her, not just for me but for Rebecca of course. (see family stress)
But there are no signs of her doing that as of yet. She just called me at work to let me know she has to spend the night again because Steve, her boyfriend and Rebecca’s so called Daddy told her he is so mad at her she is not allowed to come home.

See, if this was me, that right there would push me over the edge and I would be so done with the ass hole. But because I know my daughter and this has been going on for years, I can tell by hear voice that she is no where near that point. So again, I am sitting here at work dreading to go home to my own house.

This feeling is one of the reasons Gerry and I need a place to really get away from it all, I just don’t know if I can wait until after the winter to use it. Maybe we can find a place to park our new trailer and use it for the winter? I would so NOT tell any one where it is either. Ha, if only.

More Wordless Wednesday.

Gerry and I have been going to my parents place up north for ten years now. We love it up there and the kids love it so much that we have been talking about getting some thing of our own for about four years. Well this year we decided to just do it. Gerry went to the bank and with no problems we were approved for the loan. This past week I have looked at so many travel trailers my head is spinning. It started out so simple, but once you start looking there is always some thing better out there to look for. Well, I think we now have it narrowed down to three and we just have to make our choice and then Gerry can pulled up there and winterize it.
I am so excited, with my mother in law moving in with us and all of Bethany’s relationship drama I am so ready to have a place of our own we can just get in the car and drive to to get away from it all.

Look who was here for a visit when I came home from work today.