Moving Home

Kris is going to move back home...Yeah!! I sure missed not getting to see her much after she moved out. Her rent is going up $100, over $500 a month for a little 2 bedroom apartment. The extra bedroom, she uses as an office, is big enough for a twin bed and a small dresser (the room is really small). Her bedroom has a full bed, a night stand and a bookcase.

We have been trying to clean out the attic so she can put all her things she wants to keep up there. It is really slow going...I can't get the plastic tubs up or down without help so we can only work on her 2 days off. Hopefully we will be able to finish before the first of August when her lease is up...lol.

I moved into her old room and she will be using mine (its bigger). We hauled 8 bags and 2 boxes of clothes and stuff to Salvation Army. Emptied out 10 plastic tubs, and still have 10 to 15 more to go. Not sure where all the junk came from. Everywhere you look in the house we have 1/2 full and empty tubs sitting.

We were wanting to paint the ceiling in the living room and repaint the bathroom, but at this rate school will be started before we can start. I would like to repaint my bedroom but that may have to wait for a while, being as everything that doesn't have a home seems to wind up in my room :(

Cats

The neighborhood is being over ran by CATS!!! The house next to me (OBU property) has 15 cats. 6 Adult cats and 9 Kittens, and guess where their litter-box is....MY Front Yard :(


The last time I had Travis he couldn't even play in the yard for all the cat crap, the minute you step out side you can smell the litterbox...ugggh.

I finally got fed up and called Larry Walker, he's in charge of all the rental property, he said he had drove by the house the other night and saw all the cats. Said he would take care of the problem. That was 3 weeks ago and guess what, I still have the cat problem!!! So much for OBU taking care of their problems.

Guess now I need to call Animal Control, not sure if they will do anything about it or not. If not I may look into getting one of those animal repellents.

Baby Perrish

Finally got some pictures of Perrish to post :) (Thanks Granny Franny for the pics)

Mark and Perrish

Amanda and Perrish

Working

Been working cleaning up the Big house at the lake, so it can get put on the market for leasing. It would be an awesome place for weddings.






Spent a small fortune (not my money...LOL) on comforters, sheets and towels (4 king sized beds and 4 bathroom).

This Too Shall Pass

The quote, in itself, is simple. The true wisdom to be found in its meaning is revealed in the story from which the quote originates. I have no idea if you know where this quote came from, but I shall tell the story here. I think you will find it incredibly wise, whether it serves as a reminder or this is the first time you hear it....

King Solomon, feeling blue, asked his advisers to find him a ring he had once seen in a dream.

"When I feel satisfied I’m afraid that it won’t last. And when I don’t, I am afraid my sorrow will go on forever. Find me the ring that will ease my suffering." he demanded.

Solomon sent out all of his advisers, and eventually one of them met an old jeweler who carved into a simple gold band the inscription, "this too shall pass." When the king received his ring and read the inscription, his sorrows turned to joy and his joy to sorrows, and then both gave way to equanimity.

You see, the great King found himself unable to be content. He felt sorrow when he was happy, and sorrow when he was not, because he was unable to see his way forward. The ring served to cancel out his sorrow. By constantly having something to look forward to, he found himself content. What he previously thought was satisfaction was only a superficial feeling that was brought on by his great wealth, which was only temporary, thus his satisfaction could not last forever. True satisfaction could only be found when he recognized his wealth for what it was.

It's a Girl!!

Perrish Frances Cantrell was born at 11:03, May 13, 2010 - 6lbs. 15 1/2 oz, and 19 1/2 in long. Mother and daughter are doing fine.

April 25

Absolutely a beautiful Sunday....Planted my sweet potatoes today.




My sissy is back up for a few days, Mom has a doctors appointment Wednesday, luckily it is in town and not in Edmond.

Art Fusion

This was really cool. 10 people drew on a blank paper for 3 minutes, then went to the next paper an took up where the one before left off.




Kristin's chalky hands...



The finished art






The rain held off until all the art was displayed, then it started to spit a bit. All in all had a good time.

April Showers

Had a nice little rain this morning...

Talked to the ex, he wants me to come down next week to help him get the house ready to put on the rental market for this summer. Need to clean, do some yard work and take pictures of the house.

Summer Dress

Turn a Men's Dress Shirt into a Girl's Summer Dress! It's fun, easy, and a great way to reuse one of Dad's old shirts. Just a few of the versions.....





These are so stinking cute…

Almost Spring

Today is absolutely gorgeous !!!

I would love to get outside, to start digging, cleaning all the dead growth out and see all the new starts coming up…but its suppose to freeze and snow tomorrow….what the heck????

It’s going to reach 70 today and be 30 or below, raining and snowing tomorrow?
On the First day of Spring !!!! go figure::

Later Peeps…..

March 18

It has been so warm here the last couple of days....yesterday and today it was flirting with 70 degrees.....

I have got to get out tomorrow and get my flower beds in shape...my cannas are coming up and I have yet to pull up last year's. The mondo grass has got to be trimmed back (wish I could just mow it instead of trimming by hand). It looks sooooo sad right now with all the dead and yellow ends.

The little spring flowers are popping up through the ground all over the place. My daffodils are up....it is beginning to look a lot like spring. My day lilies will be coming up soon also!

Later Peeps....

Latest updates from the Traveler

Hey Mom! You would never guess what happened on the way to the hotel!

So, at ever airport something had to happen.. so on the way to the hotel we had a rock hit the bus window next to the kellys head. I was sitting by the window and it busted the outside window.. Shattered the whole thing. scared the crap out of me, I have pics.

Leave out tomorrow on the Ferry for North Welsh and then stay the night before we go to London. Wish we could have spent another day in Ireland.

March 15

Monday 12:27 pm arrived in Dublin…

Soooooo glad they got to Dublin...that is the only place Kristin has wanted to go since she was a little girl!!


Later peeps :)

The Weary Traveler

Text from Kristin:

10:00 am - The desks for British airway won't open till 1:30 Sunday afternoon.

2:00 - Think we got thru. American sucks, British has a strike...ugh.

2:40 - Took over an hour to figure out. We are flying to Manchester @ 5:30 (we think).

3:00 - We are leaving for Manchester in a couple of hours

3:35 - They lost our reservations.

4:30 - They are running our tickets now we are going to Manchester then to London. Then we don’t know if we can get to Dublin or not yet

4:40 - Hey momma, my bag was a whole 11 lbs :). He just looked at me and was like that’s it?

5:00 - pm we are leaving in 30 minutes. Will arrive in London in 6 ½ hours.

The Traveler

Dropped Kristin in Seminole to catch the bus to OKC airport...going to Ireland for St. Patty's day. They leave the city at 5pm will arrive in Chicago 7pm, leave Chicago at 8:25pm, arrive in London 9:50am (March 14) then on to Dublin arriving at 1:55 pm on the 14th.

Or so the best laid plans were suppose to go...didn't count on the wind :( 2 hours delay getting to Chicago...sooooo missed the plane and can't get another till tomorrow.

The first night of the trip was sleeping in the floor of the airport with a blanket and a pillow...what comforts. Poor kids, first big trip for them and it start out like this!!

Later Peeps...

Happy 50th

Today was the hubby's 50th birthday...His work was surprising him with a party, which I almost ruined by reading my text messages out-loud to him a couple of days before. Luckily, I was able to cover it...so he was total surprised. So glad they did something for him this year :)


Later Peeps...

March 12

Been a good day :)

March 3

I have got to get something did today

…tick…tock…tick…tock…tick…tock…

Time is marching on….

…..so get snapping!

March 2

What happened to January and February????? The time is going way to fast now :(