The Wantsies

I've got a serious case of "The Wantsies" today!  Here's my current list of my wants:

• a yard of my very own that I own and can do with as I please
• a gated garden filled with all my favorite herbs, fruits, berries, and vegetables.
• a garden shed to keep all my supplies in nice and organized with a green house attached to the side with a big long workstation & sink for potting
• all the tools I need to keep my beautiful gardens & lawns up
• a rose lined white gazebo with beautiful comfortable seating inside to lay about and read or enjoy a nice quiet afternoon tea in
• a chicken coop with chickens who provide me with fresh yummy eggs (and when they are done laying with fresh poultry)
• a compost area to cut back on my impact in the local landfills and provide fresh organic dirt for my garden beds.
• a root celler to store all my roots vegetables so they don't spoil over the winter season
• a dairy goat (and if I am brave enough a cow)
• a large deep freezer
• a large food storage area stocked with my own canned goods, none of these store/name brand sauces, vegetables, soups, stocks, and meats anymore.
• to order a 1/2 cow and 1/2 pig from a local farmer whom I know doesn't inject his/her animals with a ton of hormones but grows his stock off the land the natural way
• possibly some wild game (venison, elk, birds, etc... but of course I don't personally want to kill them) & wild fish.

I want to get back to the roots more and more every day...maybe one day...another lifetime...

Another week gone by

It's Sunday evening, the week is almost officially over and a new week begins.  It will be an exciting week, I get to finally meet my IPs (the couple I am trying to have a baby for) at the end of the week.  Tomorrow morning I have an early morning appointment at the IVF clinic.  Then off to the grocery store and home for what I hope will be a quiet rest of the week.  :)))  Oh I need to email over my resume/application for the job on North Island as well.  Who knows where that will lead me.

Today we had another really nice day.  Jamie and I finished Zac's Christmas shopping (ok well Jamie did) and got some of Summer's done.  I'll finish hers up later in the week/month.  :)  Then it's getting the extended family members small gifts and I'll be DONE DONE DONE.  Yay!!!!  Then Jamie took Summer and I out to ramen followed by stopping in at one of his favorite Korean markets.  Wow now that was a MADHOUSE in there!  But I will admit he is right, the produce there is unbelievable in pricing.  10 heads of romaine lettuce for $1!!!  Holy mackerel!!!  Afterwards I ran over to AutoZone to get the parts we needed for the car headlight, license plate lamps, and the air filter.  Jamie and I will do the repairs tomorrow after work.  :)  Then home again to start up laundry, clean up my disaster of a kitchen, make dinner and put away our yummy produce.  :)

It's nice having a clean kitchen again, makes for an easier week to start off with.  I do need to mop though, but will do that in the morning before Scoots gets here.  We sat around this evening as a family and watched our favorite television show "Once Upon a Time".  I have to say it's a pretty good show for the family, what a difference from usual.  Nice wholesome family show and amazingly one we are ALL interested in.  Now that in-of-itself is amazing!!!!!!  We can never agree on ANYTHING!!!!!  Jamie likes it because it reminds him of Skyrim, Zac likes it because it always has action in it, and Summer and I like it for the fairy tales/love story!!!  :))))  What a wonderful evening to end a tough week!

Let's hope next week is much better.  It has to be, I get to meet my IPs finally!!!!  :)))))

A rambling week

So it's been quite the week around here!  It started off pretty normal, just seemed to go slow for me.  I think I enjoyed the long weekend a little too much.  Thursday ended up being a tough day for me - I found out I'll be losing the baby I watch during the week in January.  I've had her since she was 6 weeks old and love her to pieces.  Of course my love will not die for her, she'll always hold a special place in my heart as every child I've ever watched has/will.  It came 8 months earlier than I had actually mentally prepared myself for so along with my crazy hormones right now I took it pretty hard, but I'm getting over it and just going to enjoy what time I do have left for her.  There's always a reason for things happening in life, I think the reason for this one is so I can really prepare and focus on the surrogacy.  At least I hope that is the reason.  Time will tell.  :)

Friday evening Summer spent the night at a friends so it was just Jamie, Zac, and I.  We had a lovely quiet evening.  Zac played video games most the night while Jamie looked over the kids Christmas lists and I gave pedicures.  Hahaha.  No it was quiet a lovely evening as I said.

This morning Jamie and I got up early to run some holiday errands.  Then Jamie dropped me off and went to get the oil changed.  I hate finding out I've been over charged for oil changes, after being told I needed to pay for synthetic oil!  Urgh...well now I know!!!  Jamie however got equally frusterated with Mossy Toyota today as they started to quote him all that needed to be done to the car.  Most of it we can do ourselves so Jamie will be doing some home maintence tomorrow.  He got some more holiday shopping done while he was out, while I stayed home waiting for the Time Warner Cable guy to come over and fix our wireless signal.  Yay, it's fixed so I have internet access in the bedroom again!  :)))

Tomorrow is another errand day - grocery shopping.  I actually like grocery shopping, I just dislike menu planning.  :))  I also need to catch up on my laundry tomorrow so everyone has clean clothes for the week.  :)))

Lovely Sunday

Today started out a bit chaotic.  Zac had two friends spend the night last night, oh what joy it is to moderate 3 pre-teen boys picking on 1 pre-teen girl!  Oh what fun days!!!  :)  They all quieted down and fell asleep between 1-2am this morning and got up at 10:30am.  I took them both home around 12:30pm.  My house was a complete disaster after the holiday decorating, baking & cooking, basically 2 different parties, and kids sleeping in the livingroom!  It was a mess!!!!  I was not really looking forward to coming home to clean it, so I took my time driving right at speed limit all the way to the boys houses and home!  I swung by the Mexican place to grab some lunch and then home to what I expected would be 2 hours of hard cleaning.

But fortunately for me I didn't have to.  I walked into a sparkling clean kitchen (floors were even swept) and a picked up and clean livingroom!  WOW I was so shocked and surprised.  It really made for such a nice afternoon and evening!!!  Jamie and I sat and watched tv for a little bit, then the kids came in and took over for a bit.  Then we decided to pull out Hogwarts and play that.  Then Jamie and I started dinner (steak, potatoes, and artichokes).  We ate dinner while watching America's Funniest Videos until Once Upon a Time came on.  Then it was bedtime.  What an awesome, relaxing evening!!!!  I love my family and especially love evenings like this!!!!

Tomorrow shall be an interesting day.  Scooters will undoubtably keep me on my toes with the Christmas tree and not sure how she'll like the new livingroom changes.  Then I have a Surrogacy doctors appointment and hopefully be reassured not only that everything is going as planned but that my giant bruise I gave myself today from the Lupron shot is normal and ok (see my post on my Surrogacy blog).