Am I Actually Posting?

I know, I know. It's been forever & alot has been going on. Ky is done with school. Here are some pics from their "graduation"




The entire K class



We jetted off to KC a few weekends ago. Note to self: Don't go back! I hated that city with a true passion! I can't tell you how many times we got lost and I even have GPS! Go figure. Ky loved being downtown at the Crown Center fountain. We went to the zoo and a Royals game so he had a good time.






Nykile finished swimming lessons this week and I'm so excited to say that HE CAN SWIM! He's not Michael Phelps yet but darn close. No pictures but he's so stinkin' cute tryin out the butterfly stroke.

Well I have to go clean since Nykile is having a sleep over tomorrow night.

I Hate Socks!

I HATE SOCKS! I HATE SOCKS! I truly do hate this time of year because of socks. I mean I have sitting on my dining room table about 15 individual socks with no mates. How does this happen? I'm finding one sock here, one sock under the bed & it's driving me NUTS! This doesn't happen in the summer!!

Update

My house is almost finished. Should be ready to move in by the end of the week. YEA!







Let's see other events happening.
1. Get the honor of mandatory Saturdays at work because we are so busy. That means I get to work 60+ hours a week, remodel my house, and deal with a child that can't seem to stay in school (see #2)
2. Nykile is having a rough time and that's putting in mildly! It's official he has been diagnosed with ADHD. I know I know. I agree it's the most OVER diagnosed problem in children but until you have a child that fits the mold you have NO idea what it's like. It can only get better from here (I hope anyway!)

That's all for now. :)
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Random Thoughts By Amanda

1. Remodeling a house is not all it's cracked up to be. Don't get me wrong I love being able to pick out the colors and design of everything but it really bites when one person helping you hurts his back and the other person helping is sick. That just leaves a handful of girls and I need boys with big strong arms! haha! Oh well. It gets done when it gets done.

2. I'm so excited about my 5 days in St Louis I could almost pee my pants! I just absolutely LOVE that place. If the mortgage biz wasn't in the toilet I would pack my happy little home up and move there. However, now is not exactly the time to be looking for a job. Plus I love my job and my family here in Arkansas.

3. Nykile has been strangely good the past week or so. Calm before the storm maybe?

4. Being on a budget and having to cook your meals instead of have them prepared for you is for the birds!

5. I'm somewhat concerned that I can now fill up my gas tank for less than it takes for me and Nykile to eat at Chilis. Anybody else just fill like you are just waiting for the bottom to fall out from under you. It's so bad that I go to bed at night sometimes mentally preparing myself for gas to be 10 a gallon the next morning. Weird I know! I shouldn't really think about it. I should be trying to decide what I can spend my extra money on :)

6. One thing I've recently gotten into is Craigslist. Weird I know! But it's really interesting what people try to sell and why. Like they tell ya they need to sell to make next months mortgage payment. While I'm not unsympathetic but it's just not something I would share with the world. Anyway, I also bought a really COOL piece of furniture on CL. I would recommend it to anyone. If you want to sell it's great. So far I've sold about $200 worth of stuff in the last week. Cash money for just taking a picture and posting it. Not bad in my book. At least now I don't have to move it.

I will post some pics of the progress on my house soon.

Later

Closing: Office Visit

Guess what? I'm closing on Wed! I'm super excited although I was once REALLY excited about doing pretty much a complete re-model but one trip to Lowes cured me of my excitement. I should not say that I'm not excited but overwhelmed would be more accurate! There's so many choices for EVERYTHING! Paint for example, there's a million choices and I'm the most indecisive person there is when it comes to stuff like this. Here's what I've got so far:
Red in the kitchen
Herbal Green in the laundry room
Light Orange/Light Tan in my bed room
Limeade green in Ky's bathroom
Chalk Board wall & Red in Ky's room

As far as everything else I think that I will leave that up to the experts. HAHA


In other news my wonderful son got to visit the assistant principal for the 2nd time this week. Today's visit warranted a call to me so it was really bad. Really strange because he has been a saint all week for me. He thought that it was his job to be judge, jury and executor of justice. Yep he bit a boy on the leg because he was doing something he was not suppose to be doing. Somehow there's more to that story but that's all I got. So I picked him up early and life wasn't fun in the Poor household once we got home. For those reading that don't know Nykile, he really is a sweet, smart, & lovable child. We've just hit a rough patch that has lasted longer than I care to think about. :)

New House!!

Ok, so if all goes as planned I will officially be the owner of a new (to me anyway) home. I'm super excited! It's not move in ready yet but I'm getting it really cheap and it just needs new floors and paint and a few other minor things. Ya know completely move around the master bathroom. Minor, right?!?! Thankfully I have a wonderful step-dad that is 100% committed (and excited) to do all the work for me. That translates into free labor! Here are some pics....It's not mine yet but unless something goes completely wrong with the inspections it will be.


Kitchen
Just imagine new cabinets, more cabinets (notice where they took the top ones with them), new counter tops. I'm thinking white cabs with really big black knobs. Color schemes to be determined.


Nykile's Room
New flooring and paint a light blue.


2nd Bathroom
New sink & cabinets


Living Room
New flooring & paint


Master Bath
Huge room with lots of wasted space. This room is going to get a MAJOR overhaul and the first thing to go is this tub. Not really sure what the plan is yet but something has got to be done. This pic is taken from the door. To my right (behind the door) is the toilet, to my left is a sink with no counter space, next to the toilet is a stand up shower and right in front of me is the walk in closet. Check back for updated pics. Whatever we decide it's gonna be cute!

Now that I've gone to the trouble of doing all this there will be something major wrong with it show up on the inspection. But I hope not! :)