TanksHill said:
Congrats on the speedy link. It does make doing searches so much easier. Sorry to hear about Dh job. Didn't you say before he works in the cell industry? My dh and father do the construction on sites. They are trying to diversify big time because of all the cuts. It sure roll down hill I tell ya.
Hows baby today? Brothers still spoiling her? I hope so!!!
He used to work in the cell industry. AT and T bought out Cellular One. He worked for Cell One for 13 years. Then AT and T bought them and he got the ax!!
Which according to one of the guys that got to keep his job that is a good thing because they are horrible to work for! DH's former co-worker, who also got laid off, is now working for a tower company and he is going to talk to him and see if that company is hiring.
Baby girl is doing great! Of course the boys are still spoiling her! They are now using her to get out of work!! If they are holding her then I don't ask them to do dishes, go check for eggs, get wood, laundry etc, etc!!
I can already hear my pennies screaming from all the pinching!!
I am seriously considering not having the boys continue with their piano lessons. That is $40 a month. I am also considering cancelling my 11 yo's speech. The school pays for it but I have to drive to town every Friday for it and then we end up eating lunch out and I go to JoAnn's to go shopping and other stores...plus it is a 45 minute drive one way in our big van....spending money that I probably shouldn't. Last on my list of things to cancel in Tae Kwon Do. I would really like the boys to learn that. It is $12 a week...$48 a month. The $88 for those two activities, plus $8 a month for 4H shooting, then Rangers (don't even want to know what that comes up to each month for four boys...but it sure adds up fast!). They had to buy cars for the Ranger Derby $5 each then to go to the Derby it is a $5 fee for each of them to participate!!! $40 for a car derby!! All that driving in the big van sure does add up! The boys have not missed speech or piano this last two months since I was on bedrest and had the baby. I have not either of those activities since before Christmas. I am really just enjoying staying home and not running 5 days out of the week! Band Monday, piano lessons Tuesday, Rangers/church Wednesday (DH and kids are going but I have stayed home), Tae Kwon Do on Thursday, and speech and 4H shooting on Fridays. Then DH takes the boys to the mens breakfast on one or two Saturdays a month and then Care group the first Sunday evening of the month then the second Sunday evening of the month we watch a friends kids so they can go to a leadership meeting at church.
I feel good enough to drive again BUT I have been telling everyone that I can not drive until March 12th (that is the day my medical discharge papers say) because I just do not want to start that crazy schedule again!
Plus softball practices are going to be starting soon! Maybe I will feel better once I start exercising and doing something for myself that I truly enjoy! Then in May I start a conseal and carry course with my mom and I am thinking about joining my moms wieght loss challenge group at the end of March. Those two activities would put me out of the house two nights a week ALL by myself!! I am about jumping out of my skin I am so excited about the C&C course! I am ho-hum about the weight loss challenge but it would get me up and out to talk with other adults...and the chance to win nearly $200!! My mom will drive to both of those activities.
Note to self: Do not eat pizza, Doritos, and Dr. Pepper for supper and then again for breakfast and then expect your weight to go down instead of UP!!
The second laptop that we had bit the dust last night!! 
This all got put on our credit card!! 
She has a Ped appointment March 5th so I will be able to get her weight then. I up dated pics on my blog and if you go back to the other pics that I took when she came home with her next to 4 yo DD's doll you can see the difference. She was 5 weeks old yesterday and Friday was her original due date. 
