Our new home!

Please forgive me in my lack of posting! IÂ’m so frustrated with my dial up connection! IÂ’ve tried to post about my town and my house for a couple of weeks now. IÂ’ve lost everything IÂ’ve written dozens of times. IÂ’ve been unable to add photos even in my trip to the local library with their DSL I didnÂ’t have much luck uploading photos. My last post was the only luck I had with uploading pictures. So today is my attempt via Microsoft Word IÂ’m hoping to be able to cut and paste not only the post itself but also the photos I wanted to share. So here we go.

This is my new home!







the view from the road




We have moved up from a small 854 SF rancher with 3 bedrooms and one bath to this 1840 SF 4 bedroom 3 bath home. Yes you read that right 3 baths. We no longer have to wait for a bathroom. Our home is located just 15 minutes south of the town of Farmville, VA. In the heart of VA, or at least that is what the water tower states!

On an 11 acre tract of land. The drive is approximately 2/10 of a mile long. I get a work out just going to the mailbox! Bob and I drove down to Briery creek lake to snap a few pictures. The lake is only a two-minute drive from the house. IÂ’m looking forward to spring and some leisurely fishing in the johnboat. If this proves to be a way for me to post both word and picture without the hassle of uploading on dial up I will soon be posting many more photos. Today we are expecting the delivery of our shed/carport. What a wonderful birthday present for me! Well, it is my birthday today 2/6/06 IÂ’m a whopping 41 years young, it is not however my birthday present it just happens to be arriving on this day.
We celebrated my birthday on Saturday when Jackie was here and also BobÂ’s parents and Sisters and brother in-law were all here to celebrate with me. We went to a local restaurant for a fine dinner and came back home for some birthday cake and ice cream. Fortunately Bob spared me the embarrassment of 41 candles and I only had one on my cake.
Brandon and his cousin Mathew sure did love the cake and ice cream!

The cake and the company were fantastic! It sure is nice to have family and friends to help one celebrate!
Well I hope this post worked. If not I will have to be content with posts that lack pictures. Well thatÂ’s it for now!
Update: Well as you can see the pictures didn't work. I will try once more at the local library... wish me luck!

update: as you can see I was not able to upload the pictures as I had wanted to I did upload a few but I was not able to put more than one per post. I will see if I can work out the kinks in the future.


Final UPDATE: OK As you can see I was able to upload the pictures finally. I was able to use Hello and Picasa2 and with some extra work I was able to get more than one picture per post. I will have more pictures soon.

Just had to share!

This is a photo of the card Brandon gave to his teacher just before he left his old school and we moved out to the country. I thought it was too cute not to share it. What do you think?

The country life!

OK I'm here in the beautiful County of Prince Edward! We are mostly settled in and I will post some pictures soon. The bad news is I only have a dial up connection and most of you remember how darn slow those things are so this limits what I'm able to do. I'm not complaining, mind you, I'm just saying. LOL! I was so happy and surprised to see Aimee from www.sleepingmommy.com and Jade from www.AZJade.com had stopped by to visit in my absence! Welcome ladies! I hope you will return soon! I will do my best to update regularly I will just have to deal with the speed or I should say lack of speed a dial up connection offers. Those of you that know me know I'm not very patient, for this I will ask you to forgive me now or don't that is up to you!

Oh I have to tell you just how proud a mom I am! Brandon (my second grader) had to take a reading test at his new school on his very first day, as it was testing day for the entire school. I received the results on Friday, he scored 94%. He is reading between a third and fourth grade level! You go Brandon! I'm treating him to a nice lunch on Monday just the 2 of us.

OK, I will get some pictures together to post next time so you can see my lovely town and my new house!

It's Official

We are the proud owners of a beautiful home in the country and owners of rental property! This old house is under a rental agreement with a young couple starting a family and we are moving up and out of here! We just got home from closing and I'm on cloud 9! The weather isn't cooperating so it will be a day or two before we move which means I have a couple days of internet left before I go into true country life mode... well at least till the satellite gets installed. I want to thank all of you that sent your good mojo and prayers our way! I love you all and again thanks soooo much! Oh I'll post pictures of the new house all complete after the move and after I get some sort of Internet connection

How do you taste?

You taste like a milkshake. Your frozen malts send
a delicious thrill across the tongue. Your
sweetness and innocence are bared for the world
to suck up with a straw... and you love it,
baby.


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What kind of light are you?

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Merry Christmas!

With the upcoming move I will not have time to post before the actual move and if the phone company is correct I won't have Internet connection until the beginning of February. I suppose when I can't stand it any longer I will hook up with some dial up service or possible get to the local library to visit my blog haunts and to catch up on emails. I've been away from dial up so long now I can't imagine going back to it. I know for sure that between packing, moving, unpacking and decorating for Christmas well its gonna be at least till after the Christmas and New Year season before I get back online again. So I want to wish all of you a blessed Christmas and New Year for you all. Cyber hugs and kisses to you all!

Dear Kodak,

I'm a little confused as to the purpose of registering a Kodak product that was received as a gift. On Christmas morning 2004 both my daughter and I were delighted to each have received EasyShare cameras! The first digital cameras for each of us! My daughter received the model CX7330 and I the CX 7430. I must say that I have been very happy with my gift and I use it all the time. I've learned so much that I was ready to upgrade to a digital with more bells and whistles. My love of Kodak quickly turned to hate for Kodak when I contacted your warranty repair department on my daughter's camera.

It seems that registration of a gift, Christmas or otherwise means nothing without a receipt. Most gifts do not come with receipts. And if they do it is either 1. a gift receipt that as was explained to me by your CSR is not sufficient in proving date of purchase or purchase price. Or 2. the gift giver wants to prove that he/she spends big money on gifts. So it seems it matters not that the serial number was registered just after Christmas on the Kodak website for both of our Christmas cameras.

I've decided not to purchase another Kodak product and I will yell at the top of my lungs my distrust of the Kodak company. I have told all my family/friends/neighbors/coworkers and the blogosphere of my unhappy experience with Kodak. In just over a week I will be moving to a new county with more neighbors and they will all hear how a one year warranty really means nothing at all to the Kodak company. You'd think that 2 cameras registered to 2 people at the same address and both received on Christmas and one needing repair in less than a years time would prove that the items were gifts and are still in the warranty period.

Sincerely,
Lillie Wifeandmotherof4

Chaos, total and complete chaos!

I'm sitting here at my computer amidst total chaos! If I were brave enough I'd snap a picture to show you just what I mean. Somehow the thought that moving day is about 2 weeks away has placed me into some sort of shock. I can't seem to get anything done! There are piles on the desk (OK that isn't unusual on my desk) clutter all over the kitchen table from piles of paperwork and various projects that I began to sort and never finished. As we speak there is a load of clean dry clothes in the drier that I just don't have the energy to remove, fold and place in the proper drawers and such. Another load clean and wet in the washer and an ever growing pile of dirty clothes in the hamper.... though that is an improvement from the ever growing pile on my bedroom floor! Though we have been packing boxes and taking the items we don't need till spring and driving them the 60 miles to the storage unit near the new house... well you wouldn't think we had taken the first thing. It appears as if our items multiply over night. I've taken down all the pictures and most of the decorative items weeks ago. I've packed up boxes of books and toys and off season clothing and still there seems to be no end to the job ahead.
I've spent nights dreaming and wishful thinking of moving day being a snap! OK, in reality I was wishing I was Jeannie, of I dream of Jeannie fame and I could just blink and it would all be done. Alas, it is not to be.
I'm sure you are all thinking to yourselves...if there is so much to be done what in the name of God are you doing here ranting about it? Well honestly as is my style I'm procrastinating. Its something I do very well. Not something I'm proud of but not something I'm going to try and hide either! You might as well know about it ... you may have even figured it out on your own! I'm sure I've given some clues these last months, unwittingly of course.
Now if there are any of you out there that just love to pack and make order of things... please come lend a hand I would gladly sit here at my desk barking an order every now and again while sitting back visiting my regular blog reads....Oh come now doesn't that sound appealing to any of you? OK well I suppose the packing and cleaning can wait while I surf on to my blog reading. Till next time!

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!