If it’s not one thing it’s another

Sorry, it's been a while.  Lots going on with moving and all.  Crazy thing that both Amie and I moved about the same time, for the same reasons.  Darn Banks! Darn Economy! Darn Money! 
At least I know that we aren't the only ones.  I know so many people in the same boat as us.  Heck, they tried to sell my house for $120k less than I bought it for and nobody bought it!  If they would have just lowered the payments to the amount they tried to sell it for, life would have been easier on all involved.  Oh well, we love our new place, so I guess it all worked out for the best, right?

So for those of you who know me, you know that I’m always getting myself involved in one thing or another. The last 3 years, it was the PTO board (PTA for my Cali Friends) for Kirstyn’s school. Last year, I was the PTO Co-President and it was a huge task, because we didn’t have a Fund Raising Coordinator (which I was the previous 2 years) so really I did both. So this year, I decided to step down and take a break.

Yeah right! So this year, Kirstyn has a Washington DC trip that costs $1900. In order to see that she goes on this trip, I am organizing a Booster Club to help the kids fundraise for the trip. Of course this means that I’m getting into a whole lot of things, once again! Oh me, oh my, when will I ever learn? LOL

So for ideas on things to do we have family dinner nights at local restaurants/take out places, car washes, a swap meet and a concert. All should be fairly easy to coordinate and plan, right? We’ll see and I’ll keep you informed. First is to get approval from the powers that be that we can move forward with our ideas.

The fun starts here, Right?

~Miss
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Settlin' In

So I moved into our new place this weekend. We still have some stuff to move over, but we got a lot done this weekend. My daughter is loving it. I'm loving it. Our little 5 year old, 5 lb poodle-bichon doggy, Coco is loving it. She loves running up and down the stairs..

We had my Aunt and Uncle, and my cousin Erin and her husband over last night (needed help getting the TV up the stairs. Thanks guys! There's no way I would have been able to get it up those stairs!

I'm happy to say that they even liked the place! My Uncle kept saying that he could totally live there. I just kept telling him that I'd keep my eyes open for another rental in the neighborhood. =) They are looking for a smaller place to rent. The 4 bedroom is just too big for them and my little 2 bedroom plus a den is perfect size!

Last night, even though my daughter has her own room and it was ready for her to sleep in, somehow... I ended up with both her and the dog perched in my bed. LOL. Really I didn't mind. Waking up this morning, however was not so much fun. Someday.. I really do want to be independently wealthy. Seriously. I have been waiting my turn and I'm tired of people cutting in front of the line. LOL.

Hope everyone has a marvelous Monday!

~Miss
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Be Positive!

Sorry for my lack of posting.  With trying to pack quickly and find a rental home to move to, there isn't a whole lot of time to get to my blog.  I would much rather be on here than doing that other stuff, but I am trying to be positive!  Be positive on the fact that we will find a great house to rent and that we will be able to move in before the bank kicks us out of our home.  Be positive that this move will not be too hard on my 3 girls.  Be positive that this move will not be too hard on me and my hubby.  It's really hard to be positive when I just want to crawl into bed and be depressed.  We went to look at rentals last night.  We saw 2 of them.  These are the first ones we have looked at.  When we got to the first one, my gut instinct was, NO, and we hadn't even gone inside yet.  I asked my hubby and his was NO also.  Once my friend (the realtor) got there and we went in, I was just ready to cry.  We are being forced out of our wonderful, beautiful, big home and I might have to settle for this little one?  OMG, I wanted to stay positive, but this house, there was just no way.  After we left, I don't know that I said a word until we got to the second house.  This one was still smaller than the one we live in (but not by much), and at least it had a much better floor plan than the first one.  It would fit most of our furniture and it is a 4 bedroom so we would have an office.  Much better.  THe drawback is that it adds about 12 more miles to my drive to work.  Oh well, at least the house itself is something I can live with.

Today we will be looking at a couple of more houses.  We were trying to stay away from a 2 story but to stay within our price range, we may not be able to do that.  We will have to be really careful with the girls in a 2 story, and carting the laundry up and down will be so much fun, but maybe it will allow us to be in a bigger home which will be nice.  See, trying to stay positive!

And, on a side note, we had a (according to the weather guy this morning) huge weather event last night!  That actually cracked me up when he said it like that.  A huge weather event!  It was the first storm of our monsoon season and it was a pretty good one.  Anyway, it rained really bad and this morning when I was leaving we found that 2 of our bushes in the front of the house had been knocked over from the wind and rain.  I laughed when I saw that and it lifted my spirit.  That is something we are not going to fix before we leave!

Crap Day So Far

I have been in a struggle with Wells Fargo for about 16 months now trying to get them to give me a modification on my home.  Well, as I write this right now my home is being auctioned.  I am very sad and just don't know what my next move will be.  Obviously moving is in the near future, but to where I have no idea.  I gues in my heart I never really thought it would come to this.  I was trying to be optimistic that everything would work out and we would keep the house.

Well, let me just say for the record that Wells Fargo SUCKS the big one.  We have had 2 full trial modifications and comleted both of them and they still wouldn't work with us.  What is that all about.  We have too much outgoing and not enough incoming.  Ok, so we filed bankruptcy to get rid of debt.  That still wasn't good enough.

So again, what do we do now.  I am going to have to move my girls from the only home they have known.  Find something else to rent and then have to move again in another year or two and maybe again after that.  This is just so stressful.  The banks got all of the bailout money, why don't we see any of it???  I just don't understand.