Belated blessings

I hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving. We certainly did! Even after hearing some disturbing news from our lender. Another set back, please tell me this will get easier! Tuesday afternoon I heard from the loan officer that the underwriter now says we have to put 5% down on a loan that was set up as 100% financing and after a confirmation letter said otherwise. I digress.... this is about blessings. I am very blessed to have a wonderful family that I love very much and that I can say with certainty loves me too. I hope you all were able to spend time with the ones you love and were also able to feel the blessings in your lives!

I just knew this to be true!

Ok so maybe not true but I always wanted blue eyes!

Your Eyes Should Be Blue

Your eyes reflect: Innocence and sweetness What's hidden behind your eyes: A calculating mind

What Color Should Your Eyes Be?

A step in the right direction.

Late Thursday afternoon I received a copy of the preliminary appraisal. Thankfully it appraised for the sale price! Had it not appraised for the sale price we would have had just one more stumbling block. It took the appraiser longer than he had promised to get out there but thankfully that is behind us now.
To my delight Friday we drove out to see the progress and the kitchen cabinets had been installed!




In the corners of the cabinets there are 2, yes I said 2 lazy Susan's.
I'm moving on up! I will have a dishwasher, something I've sadly missed for a little over 4 years! I can't wait to see the wood floors that will be installed on the first floor! I've never had wood floors and I have to research how to care for them.

I measured for the blinds while we were there. I have a few odd sizes that I'm afraid I may have to special order. Yikes, you know how expensive it gets when the words special order must be used. I've picked the curtains I want for the downstairs but I've yet to purchase them.

We also were pleased to find the well had been installed and the grading has been done!

A view from the 7th floor

While on an appointment yesterday I snapped a few pictures of lovely downtown Richmond. I thought I'd share them here.



Shadows cast from the building I was in.

























A beautiful crisp cloudless sky.


In the distance the Richmond Coliseum.











From the street level:



























The sun's glare.

A warped view.

A special treat from MM

OK you all have to visit MM! He made an audio blog and you must listen to this story! Enjoy! No need to thank me... MM tells the story I'm just helping you find your way there ;)

my first audioblog!

The fart chaser!

Yes my people we are the proud owners of a fart chaser! Runtie the youngest of our 3 cats has an affinity for chasing farts. Its pure comic relief to see her bound for the sound emitted from the rear ends of her loving family. How fortunate she is that we have a house full of farting machines. Yes we have the pint sized farter, my youngest, Brandon that remarkably emits some of the loudest and most frequent farts of them all. A close second would have to be Bob and yes even I add to the excitement of fart chasing. Obviously I have no shame here to admit that I too fart. But my people don't we all fart? Mind you this is in the privacy of my home we are talking about. Unlike my boys who are quite proud of their farts I'm just stating a fact about my own. Bob has the nerve some days while we are shopping to just let one rip and then walk away making the other shoppers think it was me and I still stay with him... am I crazy or what... wait don't answer that!

Autumn

The colors are just starting to really show here and I just wanted to share.

Uncertainty

As I posted before Its been several weeks of on again off again on the house. I've been following the plight of Jade and you can read it for yourself here, here,
here,here, here and there. I can see that I've only begun the roller coaster ride that is closing on a home. I won't go into all that has happened thus far but I will say that right now it looks as if we have a deal. We are waiting for the appraiser to do his thing and pray that the house appraises for at least what the builder is asking. If the answer to that is yes then we should have the majority of the hurdles behind us. Though as I said after reading about Jades ride I'm certainly not holding my breath.
Jade I hope your ride is now over and you are on your way to moving into your new lovely home. I've been rooting for you!

Mother and son day!

Brandon had a 1/2 day at school today so when I picked him up we had a date for lunch at Applebees, just the two of us. We even shared a chimicheesecake, MMMMMM that was good. We did our shopping for the Christmas shoe box collection for a child in some country far away, honestly I'm not sure where. Brandon had a wonderful time finding toys and some personal care items for a child that may never have had any toys. He put a lot of thought into each item and I'm sure any child would be happy to receive these items. I love it when I get to spend some one on one time with him and with any of the kids it just makes it seem so special to me and I hope to them as well. We went to the Haircuttery so Brandon could get a haircut. It was way over due but the planets must have been aligned perfectly because Brandon exclaimed, "It is best haircut ever!" Wow my work is done today! I made my boy happy all the way around and with little effort!



At least that is how Brandon put it today! He was determined to get a haircut just like his classmate Austin! He says we did it!

Tagged again!

I have to agree with Diva Drip this meme is thought provoking. I get so caught up in the day to day business of life that I don't often think about any of these topics even casually. I truly had to spend some time thinking on each one before I was able to put 7 items down for each.
Here is the meme and though you may think you got out of being tagged this time you haven't you are officially tagged simply by the virtue of being here and reading this entry! Yes that means you! No more lurking, you are being called out! Do your blogging duty, resistance is futile!

7 Meme

7 things I can do:
1. Raise 4 relatively sane, stable children thus far without major incidence.
2. The daily responsibilities of Nickie involving trach and g-button care.
Both physically and mentally be the one constant care giver for her for the
last 15 years and the many more to come, God willing.
3. Be optimistic most of the time even when life keeps throwing lemons at me.
4. I'm a great listener.
5. I fight for what I believe is right.
6. Love with all my heart and soul.
7. Get loud when I'm angry

7 things I can't/won't do:
1. Pull off being a blonde.
2. Play the guitar.
3. Be in an 80's hair band!
4. Go to a high school reunion.
5. Have any regrets.
6. Do a handstand.
7. Type 100 wpm

7 things I have in my life now that I am incredibly grateful for:
1. Bob
2. Shaun
3. Jackie
4. Nickie
5. Brandon
6. Mom
7. my home

7 things I hope to do before I die.
1. Travel the US
2. Visit Greece
3. Visit France.
4. Visit Australia
5. Worry less about money.
6. Purchase a shit load of land for Bob, his dream is to own many, many acres.
7. Own an RV and have the time to use it regularly.

7 bloggers I'd like to infect with this meme... As I stated above if you are reading this you are tagged but more specifically....
1. Lorianne
2. Magazine Man
3. Murray
4. Sleeping Mommy
5. Shane, even though I'm doubtful he even comes here nor is willing to do this.
6. Ali
7. Frances

Update MM's post on this meme!