Trying to be Sneaky

Last week Landon was getting ready for school. He's bedroom door was shut, and so I opened it to check up on him. He loves to dawdle in the morning, so I am constantly reminding him to get ready. Anyways I caught him trying to fit the cat in his backpack. He was pretty upset that I opened his door and discovered him. I can't imagine how long he thought he was going to get away with it. It's not like I wouldn't have notice a moving meowing backpack. Thought it was funny, and a such classic kid thing. Sneak the cat to school move.

My Little Rock Star

Close up playing a guitar





My little dancer

My little Kylie loves to dance to music. It doesn't matter if it is church music, or pop, or anything else we end up listening to. Have you ever been to Texas Roadhouse when the servers do their line dancing? Kylie will get up out of her seat and dance right by our table. She is pretty darn cute too. She love to shake her head, butt, and close her eyes and play a guitar. But her new recent favorite song is So What by Pink. So I have it on my playlist in honor of my little girl. Stay and listen to it. Her favorite part is she's a rock star, and she's got her rock moves. She will occasionally make Marcus sing the song at random parts of the day. I love my little rock star.

So we got our kitten this summer, and I was planning on spaying her in October, and then we bought our boat, so I was just going to wait until November, thinking she would just be six months old. But now I think she is pregnant. But I am not sure. She is so much and inside/outside cat that we are having a hard time keeping her inside to see and wait if she gets fat in a couple of weeks. My first thought that she was pregnant was coming back after being gone for a few days this weekend, and she felt heavier. Now I think she has some of the signs, but I still don't know. I don't want to abort the kittens, and I would just let her have them if she is, but if she isn't I would just get her spayed. I know I am silly, I just don't want to pay to have a Vet tell me she is pregnant. Oh well, I suppose time will tell.

Impressions

I have had a lot to think about the past week. On Halloween Marcus was laid off from Sunrise. No work to do. It came as a shock to me. I had a hard time at first. It took me that first day to get over the shock, and half way through the second to stop dwelling on how upset I was. I just needed to look towards the future. I love to plan and planning helped me to feel a lot better. I was able to look at the good side of things, and occupy my thoughts with what are we going to do now. Marcus and I had many long conversations that were very insightful, and soothing to me.

I love how if one or both of us is going through a hard time we always have each other to pull us through and talk it over. I can't even express how wonderful, and grateful I am for my Marcus. I am also very grateful for the church, and other wise people (especially my dad) in my life. I will always glad I listened to the advice, and guidance they gave me to live my life. I always felt like we lived within our means, and tried to make wise decisions. I am a compulsive saver, and very obsessive about money. But now it will take care of us. It is not always easy to save money and live small, but I am finding again that it sure is worth it.

I have also thought a lot on the measure of happiness. When Marcus was in school for so many years of our married lives we were always poor, and never had a whole lot. We were always taken care of, but never had more. But I was always happy. I remember thinking when he is done will school and maybe if I get a bigger house I will be happier. But as time went by, and we never got our bigger house, and had a little more money, and more time together I was still just as happy as when we were dirt poor. And now that he does not have a job, I am still happy. Happiness does not matter where you are in life, and what you have, it comes from within. You can choose to be a happy person, or not. You always hear money doesn't buy happiness, and I have really seen how true that is. I am happy that we have a savings, that we will have three kids. I am looking around my world and seeing and enjoying all the small luxuries that I have.