Innocence

I went to Kansas this weekend to celebrate my grandma's (Memaw) 87th birthday. It was so touching to see how the kids are drawn to her. I captured a moment that I want to remember forever. Right now AJ and I speak on a regular basis about "kind touches." I happened to look over and see AJ leaning over my grandmother rubbing her arm - giving kind touches. She was explaining to him those were wrinkles, what happens when you get old. It made me tear up to see such a special, innocent moment.

Who Needs Toys?

Okay, I have to admit my whole family is on countdown (8 days) until closing day. So I'm sure my next few post will be entirely house related. We are so elated to finally see this whole big blessing (mess) come to an end. Now instead of hearing AJ say "mom our house is still broken." Now I get to hear "Mom our house isn't broken anymore," "we have a driveway!" "Mommy, we have carpet!" It is music to my ears.

The best part is that AJ and KC are absolutely in love with the house. AJ will ask daily to go see it, just so he can either run around on the driveway, through the house or show us where he put his hand print in the cement.

So the question is - why do I buy toys? All they need is a driveway to run on or a roll of carpet to crawl on and play. So cheap, and it doesn't clutter!

Okay in the time it has taken to write this we are now:

7 days, 5 hours, 9 minutes, 2 seconds! Just joking!

The Women

Two friends of mine invited me to go see the movie The Women on Sunday. It was a much needed break from reality - and now that I am beginning to make some Oklahoma friends I hope to do it more often.



This is for sure a chic flick and a very empowering one at that. In this movie Meg Ryan's character had fallen into the stay-at-home wife/mother syndrome and found herself with bad hair, nails, clothing and the last person she took care of. She finds out her husband is cheating on her and sinks herself into a deep depression that no one but her can get herself out of. The key words is "her." Yes, she was devestated by the infidelity, but came to realize - how can her husband love her when she doesn't love herself? She gave up her in the midst of their life together.

I sometimes relate to this movie way too much. I am so scared of loosing me in all this doctor and motherhood life I am living.

So in my favorite part of the movie she decides to snap out of it and make herself happy. She makes a bulletin board that says at the top "What Do I Want?" and begins pinning pictures and inspiring words on it! This is what I am going to do. Positive in = positive out! I believe in this and I will be a success at - WHAT I WANT!

Where Has the Time Gone?

Okay, I haven't blogged in a while. I feel it is a lot like working out - which by the way I haven't done lately either! So what's going on right now you ask?

EVERYTHING! But I'm not stressed or anything :)

The past few week I have been working on credit. We found when applying for our loan that a man named Jeremy F. Thomas (mine is Jeremy D. Thomas) had found his way onto our credit report with all his prision (yes, I said prision) deficiancies and all. Fourteen defaults to be exact. Yes, all sitting on Jeremy's credit when we are three weeks from closing on a house.

Did I freak - heck ya! Tears and all.

We'll luckily those are clearing up as we speak in disputes, since this evil man does not have my J's social number. Let me tell you, these evil credit agencies are pure evil. They are not an advocate and just FYI, there is no advocate for you in the state of Oklahoma. Not even anyone at the Attorney General's office.

The good news is (keep your fingers crossed) that two weeks from today I will be unloading boxes in my new house. What a relief! I am so ready to have a home to raise my family, decorate and entertain in. The best part is soon I will get my mom back as a mom and not just a roomate and the kids will have a grandmother and grandfather again. That is the biggest blessing. Jeremy will also be able to work from home more and not always be at the office. Another blessing.

I did learn today that after AJ's second round of tubes in May - Kendyll will now probably (and that is a BIG probably) be getting her first round. Thank God, my idea of a good time is not suffering through the winter with multiple ear infections - her or me!

And a another fabulous thing for me is my photography class I am in the midst of taking. I am having so much fun learning and putting it to good use. I also have a friend of a friend currently designing my business cards for my new Tammy Nicole Photography look. The look is very fun and refreshing and just what I was looking for. I am very excited to kick off my business at the beginning of the new year. We'll see how it goes, but I'm thinking big things are going to happen.