Up early with my thoughts...

yes, it is another Saturday morning that I have no where pressing to go, nothing pressing to do and yet--I can't sleep! This really sucks! I so better get a nap later! LOL

Jeff is at work. He's been getting a lot of overtime lately, praise the Lord and we have managed to pay off two loans, get tires on the Jeep and keep our noses above water for a change. It feels good. For as long as it lasts, we're going to be as frugal as we can be and work our debt snowball, cleaning up our credit report and hopefully save a little money, with ONE exception.

Hopefully within the next few weeks, we are getting our precious son a car! He deserves it and while you are probably thinking that's wrong of us to buy him a car, let me tell you--he worked all summer long last year and saved every dime and bought his own truck and spent quite a bit of money getting it up and running only to have it stolen! Anyone want to talk about unfair? What's more, the stupid city of Birmingham mishandled the theft report and it never made it to records and the stupid Jefferson County Sheriff's office called to say that the truck had been found but when we called back to inquire about how to pick it up--they couldn't find it!

I believe in God but I also believe in Karma--someone is going to get their's one of these days! At least I hope so.

Nonetheless, it really hurt to watch everything my baby worked for go right down the drain and not because of anything he did. It hurt even more that we were not in a position to help him "fix" it at the time. So helping him, especially when he helps us by even contributing to the household finances once in a while, is a top priority for us. It won't be a brand spanking new car by any means. It may even be that Dylan gets the jeep and Jeff gets the new clunker if it's something cheap on gas!

I got to keep baby Cooper last night for a little while so his mommy could make a Walmart run. I just sat and held him the whole time! I'm in love with that baby!


We had CORE orientation last Monday night and we left excited and completely overwhelmed! I am disappointed that Wendy Riley isn't teaching again this year but she may teach for the co-op instead. I hope she does and I hope she decides to do so before I pay for the math through CORE. If she does, that will free up Kayti to take two additional classes that were originally scheduled at the same time as the math she needs but we'll see. Right now, she's signed up for three--Algebra I, Biology and English 9. I wanted her to take World History, Greek & Latin Roots and Spanish I but they conflicted with other classes.

Brooke is signed up for 5 and I'm a little worried about that. I dont' want to make the same mistake we made with Kayti in 7th grade--jumping in over our heads. But she definitely needs English 7, Math and Science. I only signed her up for the history class because if I don't, she'll just be sitting there until Kayti gets out. And then she WANTS to take Spanish. How do you tell a kid they CAN'T learn something they want to learn?

It just feels so weird because at this time last year, I had my entire schedule planned out for the year. I knew exactly what they were going to do, exactly what I was going to do and I had it all handled--only to have it blow up in my face in a few months! So now, I don't have a thing planned. You hear that, Lord? I learned my lesson that when I make plans, You laugh! So it's going to be interesting to see how everything shakes out.

We also found out Kayti is not eligible to go to the Spring dance--she didn't take the social dance class this year. But she is not disappointed--that means we get to spend that entire weekend at the Camp Fire 100th Birthday Campout! We are really excited!

I have begun the process of working on my resume and getting it ready to send out. I know that God has something great waiting for me and I'm excited to see what that is.

Not doing much of anything today except cleaning house, doing laundry and decorating for Easter and trying to figure out what we're going to do for Easter. We always go somewhere but no one has any ideas this time! Maybe I'll spend a little time figuring that out as well!

Have a blessed day!