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ning happiness is definitely wasted on the likes of her but your persistence pays off and even she can t resist your happy banter mack you make me so proud i am proud of the young man you are becoming i am proud of the example you are to your younger siblings and even to your friends your heart is a good one your standards are high and you expect a lot from those in your life i so admire that about you i have been so impressed with your smooth transition to high school this year i won t lie getting up to drive you to early morning seminary is kind of killing little bits of my soul but it is all worth it when i see what it means to you your dedication inspires me to be better to try harder to do what i know i should thank you for being such an important part of our family your sense of humor your quick wit and your keen observations make you so unique and such a big part of our lives thank you for your patience as i ve tried and made lots of mistakes on you you my first baby the one who has to endure the twists and turns of the learning curve with me you who ve had to suffer most through my inadequacies you ve made it easy on me kid and you ve made it exceptionally fun happy fifteenth mack i love you i couldn t be more proud of you love mama posted by christie at 7 37 pm 7 comments labels big mack love mama thursday january 24 2013 glass half full even if it s dirty chipped and cutting my lips in an effort to not become totally suicidal slightly forlorn i have decided to focus on the good things about living in an apartment all three of them because there are many many many good things for instance i have firmly cemented the positive habit of making my bed every day mostly because if i don t you physically cannot walk through my bedroom with one or two pillows on the floor there s just not room for the bed the pillows and me in this tiny space gone are the luxuriously lazy days of not making the bed at all until the husband came home at night you know we only make it half the time because they re going to see it and think we re lazy bums if we don t right another positive lifestyle change is the increase in efficiency in the kitchen i can literally stand in one spot not have to lift my feet at all and i can load the dishwasher put away all the clean dishes make dinner and clean the kitchen think about this from one spot i can reach everything in my cupboards drawers and stove with all the free time this has afforded me no more walking hooray it is a wonder that i have not found the time to cure cancer cancer cure coming soon note to self learn how to cure cancer a special treat that we ve also recently discovered is the burst of freezing cold water in the shower that comes if anyone so much as thinks about touching a faucet anywhere else in the apartment it s like a wake up call hey you you in the shower enjoying yourself and relaxing wake up you ve got things to do no time for conditioning rinses hurry up loving that part also of note are the new cultures my kids are being exposed to on a daily basis like the next door neighbors who seem to be home all day every day out on their back porch smoking weed hopefully just cigarettes teaching us once again that age old lesson love thy neighbor anyway or at least ignore them and keep your windows and doors shut tight my favorite thing legitimately is that we can clean the place top to bottom in about 13 minutes that includes toilets vacuuming sweeping dusting and pick up sure it still looks pretty crappy what with all the piles of stuff we have no place for but it s clean and i like that also amazing is calling someone to come fix things and not having to pay a dime the drawer in the bathroom broke because i filled it too full of hair and make up products not my problem come fix it for me now i love it though i do wish the maintenance man had teeth but the one thing that gets me through it all is the multi thousand dollar difference every month between what our mortgage was and our rent is now seriously we are saving 2 000 every month by living here multiply that by twelve months and five and a half years of living here insert me pulling out a calculator by my calculations we could have had 132 000 more in our pocket had we rented instead of bought a home i can promise you we did not get that handed to us when we sold our house maybe renting isn t so bad no it is it really is and thank heavens it will end in four more months posted by christie at 11 42 am 17 comments wednesday january 23 2013 adaptation when i last left you i was selling a house moving out of a house moving into an apartment buying a house having christmas and taking a vacation all in the same seven day period i would not recommend it at one point a few weeks ago i sat down to have lunch with some friends one of them very sweetly looked me in the eye and said so how are you i immediately burst into tears and realized that i was not doing as well as i thought i was it was an epiphany for me because i am great at pretending life is perfect when it s not later on the phone with the ever traveling husband i shared this epiphany with him and he hit the nail right on the tip of its pointy stupid head what he said in much nicer words than this was essentially that i am like a three year old thrown out of my routine and i really really like my routine i need my routine i ve felt a bit lost like the ground underneath me is unsteady with sharp craggy rocks under my bare feet i ve had to readjust everything how i lived how i cooked how i grocery shopped i was not sure what my new day to day schedule would be how i would manage a household with two thirds less of a house to live in how i would get my kids to and from school especially given the fact that two of the three had massive anxiety about riding a new bus where would i quite honestly put all of the stuff i deemed necessity even though it doesn t fit anywhere here in the apartment i tossed and turned with worry at night and blinked back tears during the day and slowly oh so very slowly the hours have ticked by and i ve found my tentative footing i ve made trip after trip to the container store finding ways to organize our life here that is manageable for me i ve rearranged kitchen cupboards and made peace with the appliances that will sit on the counter for a few months i ve worked out the school logistics and helped my kids manage their stress i ve even been able to fall asleep at night i feel safely sure that when someone asks me now how i am doing the answer will not end in tears and that my friends is a pretty great place to be in posted by christie at 10 09 am 9 comments friday december 21 2012 12 21 12 otherwise known as the end of our world as we know it my heart is full my limbs exhausted and my gratitude overflows into salty tears this morning we said goodbye officially and on paper to our home for the last five and a half years the husband s company had approached him in early november and asked if he wanted to open another office for them while this would be a huge opportunity for him professionally they were unsure at the time of asking as to where they wanted this office opened we knew it would be either dallas or nashville and we said yes to either one we spoke with a realtor who advised us to hurry and get the house ready to sell as there were buyers out there and not a whole lot to choose from thinking our house would not sell before christmas anyway and that we d have another chance to put it on the market in the spring we gave it a try three days later we had an offer in hand and still no word on where we would be moving that was an anxious few weeks one filled with diet cokes and self medication read lots and lots of chocolate finally the word came down from the higher ups that dallas was to be our destiny and we began to get excited what was not exciting however was going to be closing moving and having christmas all in the same week also not exciting was saying goodbye the brand new beautifully remodeled basement we finished this summer why why do things like this happen just when you get your house how you want it is it because god has a great sense or humor or because the universe hates me probably both in any event i bring you a plethora of photos from the basement now being enjoyed by someone else beautiful no did you notice the wonderfully organized nooks and crannies in my office shelves how perfectly everything lines up and fits in its spot i have loved that office loved like almost more than anyone else in the family loved calm down hannah i still love you more i think i d probably die of misery were it not for the excitement of the new home we have decided to build in dallas we just got word from the builder that they have accepted our offer and we are slated to have it completed in april we will finish school here and move down there at the end of may so today on this apocalyptic end of the world mayan calendar day of doom life has worked out pretty even steven for us sell a house buy a house all on the same day which should tell you all that indeed the world will be ending tonight eh at least we ll go out with a smile on our face posted by christie at 5 09 pm 14 comments wednesday november 21 2012 wigwam brownies a lesson in historical accuracy brace yourself i have come up with a new thanksgiving invention that is sure to turn the world on its politically incorrect head you see when i ever so insensitively posted my tee pee cupcakes four years ago i did not take into account the inaccuracy of my racially controversial table decoration i imagined that homemakers all over america would delight in creating something for their thanksgiving holiday that would not only please the eye but taste good too oh how foolish and wrong i was i was not creating a simple holiday treat i was promoting racism did you know that the indians first americans who helped our clueless pilgrim friends did not live in tee pees did you i didn t and my prolonged promotion of incorrect stereotypes has probably set back the indian first american movement at least another 600 years those poor first americans stereotyped into tee pees at thanksgiving all these years the horror thanks to the dozens of people who have found the time in their no doubt uber busy lives to send me lengthy emails correcting my mistake from four years ago i have decided to correct all of you as well because it s the right thing to do listen up racists the first americans that helped the pilgrims lived in wigwams like these not tee pees like these so with my historically accurate wigwam photo and a plan i set out this morning to create a culturally sensitive thanksgiving decoration for you i mixed up a pan of brownies according to the package directions and let them cool once they were cool enough to handle i scooped a large blob of brownies out of the pan and shaped them into a dome shape like this with my hands it took about half the pan of brownies as the brownies got very compressed when i squished and molded them this means that you only get two wigwams per box of brownies and if you re eating at a thanksgiving table of 28 like i am this means you need roughly 14 boxes of brownies three dozen eggs and a pint of oil totally worth it we must get this right people once shaped and molded into the proper accurate wigwam shape melt a cup of chocolate chips and pour over the wigwam crush up several oreos and sprinkle them over the melted chocolate while the chocolate is cooling start in on making some decorative accessories to go along with your wigwams i created an entire forest of eastern woodland pine trees on the assumption that these trees actually existed at the time of the first americans though i did not research this facet of my thanksgiving table thoroughly i am sure my dear educated readers will write and correct me if i m wrong i also took some tootsie rolls and starbursts to create a fake fire it would have been more historically accurate to have a real fire but i was worried about small things like you know the house burning down or my children suffering third degree burns trying to be true to history can be quite dangerous but it is so worth it i definitely recommend real fires on your table if you can manage when your wigwam chocolate has cooled pipe some realistic looking sticks and a door onto the wigwam this is harder than it sounds as the dome shape is a tricky angle to work with and the oreos make the chocolate crumble right off once everything is assembled it is ready to be the centerpiece of your politically correct racially sensitive historically accurate non offensive thanksgiving table and you know what it looks so much better than my silly inaccurate dumb little tee pees yeah you re welcome p s check out this month s parenting magazine page 65 but be warned they have inadvertently featured my inaccurate controversial tee pee cupcakes instead of my newly accurate wigwam brownies posted by christie at 6 09 pm 24 comments thursday november 8 2012 a winner um yeah sorry about that didn t mean to completely ignore my own contest or anything been a little bit busy around here feeling overwhelmed stressed excited and manic life has thrown a curve ball our way and it s completely tossed everything we know upside down i m not ready to talk about it yet as things are still unsettled but i can promise you this we are not getting divorced no one is sick i am definitely not pregnant but i m pretty excited about someone i know who is once things are figured out around here a post will be forthcoming i promise in the meantime the winner of my new favorite book is sara said my favorite is unbreakable excellent read you had me at it s a wonderful life that s my favorite movie october 22 2012 4 43 00 pm cdt shoot me your address and the book will be on its way to your hot little hands posted by christie at 12 33 pm 8 comments monday october 22 2012 a post and a giveaway this 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