Weeeee look what I can do!!!

Ok, I am not a professional by any means but since I am a single mom, I will have to pretend that I am. I do not get paid for the things I do but would gladly accept donations =) (joke)

So we moved into our new little humble abode... this will be our forever home. I refuse to ever move again. And by the time the kids move out, I will pretty much have it paid off! I am renting for now. Until Sept 2011 then I will buy. I will once again be a home owner, I need to find my sanity and ability to save money by then!

But back to the house... there is no space... and I mean NO SPACE for storage! I decided to make shelves built in to the walls! Again, I am just pretending to be a professional when I am at home.

This is the before picture:



And so... now begins my destruction errrr I mean construction lol.



This was next, this was when my kids were asking me if I was crazy...



Bwwwhhhhaaaahhhaaaaa



This was before I painted it. I am not finished with it, so I will stop here and post that tonight or tomorrow when I completed the mess errrr I mean beautiful creation I have made!

Pizza Hotline??

So after spending the evening with my 2 oldest step daughters (x). We drove through their little town of Carlisle, Ohio... when V noticed a Pizza Hotline number... and the jokes began with the 3 boys!!!!
Just think what a pizza hotline really is...
Hi, how would you like your pizza? (in a sexy girl voice)

Seamen...

So last night, I was laying on the couch watching old Miami Ink reruns... my oldest V comes to join me after he gets out of the shower. So we started talking about tattoos and such. He says "For my 16th birthday we should go get tattoos together" Im pretty sure my jaw hit the ground! I said "it took me 35 years to get my first one, what makes you think Im going to let you get one at 16?". Well we conversed some more, all the while Im thinking of what my tribute tattoo for my Uncle Larry is going to be... V is telling me he wants to get an anchor with water around it. I had to ask him why since he has never been a sailor or in the navy... then the humor starts...
"But at some point I was a seaman (semen)... and we all had to fight to get here... I have struggled just as hard as anyone else to be where I am... " I laughed so hard I cried!
I dont know where he learned this stuff but however I am so glad out of all those millions, he is the one who made it here! =)

Secrets!!!

Ok, so I have heard so much about Mississippi Delta Fudge Pie and went online to try to find the recipe... because after my chocolate melt in your mouth cake last week, I wanted to make this for my boys.
TO MY DISMAY!!!!!! you cannot find this recipe without purchasing it! Are you serious???? Who charges for a recipe? Does the whole world hate me? Am I doomed to never be able to make a Mississippi Delta Fudge Pie for my poor little deprived teenagers (lol)???
I am a blog jumper/stalker. I read lots and lots of blogs and make copies of the photos of the items I like for ideas for my house... I follow a lot of blogs too just because I like what the people have to say or they know how to make me laugh.... can someone please just send me a copy of this recipe?

So I will sing this song until someone sends it to me!

Oh where Oh where could my litle Mississippi Delta Fudge Pie be? Where oh where could it be????

Home....

So today I went to look at a house. My cousins boyfriend is selling this house & my real dad & step mom thought of me... so for the heck of it i went to see it. i liked it. i have soooooo many ideas for this house! it is not perfect... but it is workable. my thoughts are this: my boys will be moving out in the next 3-5 years. i will have it payed off by then... then i am scott free right??? lol
so when you walk in, there is a tiny living room, then a bigger dining room... im going to have to knock the divider down to make it one open room! small living rooms are not acceptable to me =)
the bedrooms are nice sized, the bathroom is tiny but not as tiny as what i have now... so its doable. the kitchen.... wow! it is going to need some work but i am patient and can do a good portion of it myself so its cool. the basement is not finished it doesnt have central air but that can be worked on also by next summer. there is a little sunroom on the back that will be vincents room until we build a bigger room onto it. i think this will be a good learning experience with me and the boys and building stuff together. i am going to see how much of it we can do on our own =) so i will be posting pics as we move in (in sept) and get the renovations going on!
i am very thankful this opportunity fell into my lap & i didnt sit and think about it to make myself not want to do it, i am just taking this on a whim & doing it! it is $200 cheaper a month than my rent now... land contract for the first year until i get all my stuff paid off and in order... so my wonderful blessings are much much appreciated at this point!

Betraying Yourself...

The last couple months have been crazy. I have gotten so close with & so far from my kids. I feel like a stranger sometimes. I discovered they have all smoked pot. Mind you I knew my oldest was going to eventually because he talked to me about it but I thought I had talked him out of it... to my greatest fear I had not. I also found out my youngest two have been smoking...

Attitude

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”

William James


I read this today on a website... it really made me think about a lot of things. And for one I am glad that some of those things are gone in my life. Im just confused as to why they had to happen. There has to be some big picture I am not seeing or understanding. I have never regretted anything in my life but there is one thing I do regret and that is going to drive me insane. It is not really anything I did or didnt do but its the way I allowed things to happen. I think I have basically just set myself up for the bs that went down....
But on to a better life, one that brings much more peace... and hopefully it stays that way!