Back to School!

Well, I survived spring break.....didn't think i'd do it. It was an insane week lol. I spent all day Saturday shampooing my upstairs carpets, I find with the animals I have to do that about once a week. It helps keep the smell to a minimum. Then Sunday I did the downstairs, the couches and carpet. They're finally starting to look as good as it did before my surgery. So, last night, I go upstairs to do the bath, storytime and bedtime thing with the kids, and discover that my carpets are a mess again because of the dogs (we're dogsitting til like Thursday). I sat down, right there on Lana's bedroom floor and started crying. I just felt like "what's the point of all this work?" I work all day everyday trying to keep this place clean and suitable for kids.

Anyway, Tom comes upstairs and asks me what was wrong, he thought I overdid it and was in alot of pain. I just looked at him and said "that's it! all the animals are going! I can't take it anymore!" He looked at me with wide eyes, turned around and went back downstairs. After I calmed down and came back downstairs he looked at me and said "You're not really gonna make me get rid of Mea are you?" Of course I'm not gonna make him get rid of Mea. I'm as attached to that dog as he is. It's just frustrating is all. I am trying to talk him into keeping just the dog and one cat and getting rid of the rest. That would make my life SO much easier. He doesn't seem opposed to the idea and we've agreed on one cat, Ewok, she hates people anyway. The other one I wanna get rid of, Spaz, is the mama cat to Garfield and Ewok. She's gonna be harder to convince him, and I don't want to get rid of her either but it's either her or Garfield and there's no way in hell he's gonna part with Garfield, or Mea. I wouldn't ask him to part with Mea, she's too sweet of a dog to see go anywhere else.

As far as the housing situation goes, there's not much of a change there. We're still going to try to stay here. It's more affordable with our scarce funds right now. And we just tried again to enroll his father in DEERS, we figure it should go through this time because his unemployment checks stopped so he has no income. From my understanding, if we can get his father in DEERS, he'll be a dependant of Tom's and then the military can't say anything about him being here. So, fingers crossed that my family FINALLY gets a break. We could certainly use it.

I'd post more but i have alot to do today, no cleaning, just some research that needs to be done for certain things. So I'm going to get to it. Enjoy your day!

Louise