One More Week!!!! YAY!!!

[Janet]

I do hate wishing time away and I'm not really, but after this week....it will be spring break and I'm so excited!!!

I'm planning to do some spring cleaning and that always gets me in a good mood. I love going through the closets and drawers and getting rid of stuff. I just can't wait.

Also....next weekend I have puppies due and that is always exciting. I'm so ready to have puppies in the house again. They are so much work, but so much fun. I have 5 on a waiting list now, but that usually changes by the time they are ready to go to their new homes, so we'll see.

I am hoping for some warmer weather and if not realy warm at least some sunshine. Maybe if I enough done inside...I can start outside.

[DianaB]

That sounds like a good springbreak, except for the cleaning closets!! Yuck!!! I need to take some time and get mine done too, but I'm in no rush, I can still get the closet door shut!!!! LOL

I can't believe that you have puppies coming again!! I'm sure that they will be the cutest little puppies and I can't wait for pictures. Do you know how many you're having yet? What day are they due?

We have springbreak this week and I think that Jaci's going to have a slumber party on Wednesday with some of our foreign exchange students. She's really become close friends to a couple of them. One is from Germany and the other is from the Ukraine. They have to go home when the school year ends and I know that she's already sad at the thought of them leaving. Then I think that Glen and I may have a slumber party for the grandkids. We haven't told them yet, just in case I decide not to.

[Janet]

That sounds like a good springbreak, except for the cleaning closets!! Yuck!!! I need to take some time and get mine done too, but I'm in no rush, I can still get the closet door shut!!!! LOL

I can't believe that you have puppies coming again!! I'm sure that they will be the cutest little puppies and I can't wait for pictures. Do you know how many you're having yet? What day are they due?
We have springbreak this week and I think that Jaci's going to have a slumber party on Wednesday with some of our foreign exchange students. She's really become close friends to a couple of them. One is from Germany and the other is from the Ukraine. They have to go home when the school year ends and I know that she's already sad at the thought of them leaving. Then I think that Glen and I may have a slumber party for the grandkids. We haven't told them yet, just in case I decide not to.

Yes...Emilee had the last litter and Gidget is due March 22/23. I take her Thursday the 19th for xrays to see how many and if they will be able to get through the birth canal alright.

[katcarasella]

Here you go again with the spring cleaning Janet.....didn't I tell you about that last year??
I have plans for you my dear so don't be getting lost on me...
Congrats on the new babies, can't wait to see them when they get here.
This time I'm driving over to check them out, I promise...:D

[Janet]

I would love for you to come........anytime!!!

[HALEY]

congrats. on the puppies on the way, i just love puppies.... get your spring cleaning done before the hot weather gets here so you can sit on the porch and have a beer or two! ;)
i'm getting closer to getting my cleaning done... Micah is helping mommy he's such a good kid... we'll sometimes... we took all the pots and pans out yesterday i was cleaning under the sink and we got some wooden spoons and we made a band yesterday.. so funny Mike came home and asked what the heck all the noise was and we were laughing away....

[Janet]

I remember doing that Haley. Ricky and I had sooo much fun. He would sing but make up words to our music (?)...lol. As much as I love this time with him....I do miss when he was younger, but still he never ceases to amaze me.

You definitely don't have to answer this, I will understand, but were you and Mike planning on any more children? I so wish we could have given Ricky a brother or sister.

[HALEY]

I remember doing that Haley. Ricky and I had sooo much fun. He would sing but make up words to our music (?)...lol. As much as I love this time with him....I do miss when he was younger, but still he never ceases to amaze me.

You definitely don't have to answer this, I will understand, but were you and Mike planning on any more children? I so wish we could have given Ricky a brother or sister.

Janet you could ask me any question you want to.. we did want to have another child, but we wanted a bigger house before we had another child, my house is very small, but with the economy the way it is and my job on the line, i guess that dream is also gone with the dream of owning a bigger house, i so much wanted a little girl, strange that you mention that we were just talking about that this weekend...

[Janet]

Haley...I grew up in a two bedroom, one bath, living room and kitchen home. My parents had their room, and this is how us kids slept. We had a room...Carolyn was on top bunk, Jerry on bottom, me on cot and baby Brad in drawer. Then Carolyn got married, Jerry moved to the top bunk, I moved to the bottom and Brad moved to the cot. After Jerry got married...yup...I moved to the top bunk and Brad to the bottom. It really wasn't so bad. Didn't notice it being small as a child, but boy after I grew up couldn't believe we did it....LOL.

Mom still lives there and it's the perfect size for her now.

[HALEY]

Haley...I grew up in a two bedroom, one bath, living room and kitchen home. My parents had their room, and this is how us kids slept. We had a room...Carolyn was on top bunk, Jerry on bottom, me on cot and baby Brad in drawer. Then Carolyn got married, Jerry moved to the top bunk, I moved to the bottom and Brad moved to the cot. After Jerry got married...yup...I moved to the top bunk and Brad to the bottom. It really wasn't so bad. Didn't notice it being small as a child, but boy after I grew up couldn't believe we did it....LOL.

Mom still lives there and it's the perfect size for her now.

we also grew up in a two bedroom house, the three of us.. i would love to be able to stay home.. and just Mike work. But i really don't think it will be fair to bring another child into this world the way it is right now, with the trillions being spent on the economy my poor child is going to have to pay that back.. plus us.. just worried when all this money runs out, there going to tax the hell out of us. i got a carton of cigs. yesterday and almost died.... 55.00 a carton for cigs... crazy....

[DianaB]

I got to see the bedroom where Janet slept as a child and I couldn't believe that they got 4 children in there!!! It was really small!!! But, Janet, I bet that you have great memories of your brothers and sister in that room!!!

I shared a room with my brother when I was really little then when I was in the 4th grade we added on to our house. We built a family room and a bedroom. The new bedroom was mine and it was painted pale pink.......I still love that color!!!!

[HALEY]

Diana i shared a room with my sister and boy was she mean!!!! :( she was the neat one and i was the messy one, ( believe it or not) and she was always yelling at me.... 1/2 the time i slept in bed with my mom

[gja1000]

I grew up in a two bedroom, one bath house too - but I was the STEP sister. My older
s-sister had the bedroom, my s-brother slept on the pull out couch and I slept on a rollaway bed we kept in the hall and pulled out into the living rooom each night. There was a little built in closet (about 2 ft wide, 2 ft deep, by 5 ft high) and 3 built in drawers in the hall. When my sister was at home, my brother got those for his things (I have no clue where my things were kept - I was 5 years old). About 2 years after I got there, my sister moved out and my brother got the bedroom and I got the hall closet and drawers, where I stayed until my brother went to college - I was 13, and then I got the bedroom - but had to let him sleep in there when he came home!!!

It's amazing, we are all so used to more space now! Our current home is only 1200 sq. ft., but we only had one daughter. It has 3 bedrooms though. A few years ago, Gary built on a den, office, and large closet onto the back of the house.

[Janet]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when I was a child, my parents only bought what we needed and then only if we had room for it. I remember Mom sitting at the kitchen table paying the bills and had this book that she wrote everything down in.

Now we have to have more room for all the stuff we buy....lol and most of it is stuff we just want....don't need.


Only two more days till spring break!!!!!

[pope1982]

Hope you have a blast and get done all you set out to accomplish Janet :cheers:

[Janet]

Thank you! I hope I get a lot done, but if not..it'll still be there when I can get to it...lol

[DianaB]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when I was a child, my parents only bought what we needed and then only if we had room for it........

I don't remember having an over-abundance of toys but my brother and I were really spoiled (it kills me to admit this too!!). My Mom and Dad both worked and we eventually lived in a really big, nice home. We almost always got what we wanted for Christmas and had a lot of gifts. But I don't remember getting much in between birthdays and Christmas. We always wore really nice clothes but I do remember Mom always shopping the sale rack!!! And she still does!!

A few years ago I went by a distant family's house to visit after a funeral and their home was dirty and so run down. Being there really made me appreciate everything that my Mom and Dad had done for me and so the next time I saw them I gave them a big hug and told them how much I appreciated all their hard work to provide us with nice things and a nice home.

Besides working regular jobs my Mom and Dad built a car wash and ran it for years, had several rentals around town, was in charge of a newspaper delivery in our town, and many other jobs. They worked very hard. My Dad had grown up very poor and he swore that his kids would never live that way.

[HALEY]

My Dad had grown up very poor and he swore that his kids would never live that way.



I said the same thing before Micah was born,, Mike is a wonderful worker, and he will be doing side jobs again this summer, if anyone has the money to spend on there houses, and i'm also a hard worker, I swore Micah will never wear used clothes like i had to, or used toys. i have one child and he will be spoiled to some degree, but he will understand it takes hard work to get these toys and extras that he wants...

[judy]

I grew up in a 3 room apartment, which meant that I slept in the hall on a daybed. It was a pretty big foyer - I even had room for my dresser and mirror, and I had my own closet.

In the summer, I remember my Father putting a fan on a little table facing me so that I would be cool. I kept that table, and it's out on my deck right now.

I had no privacy, but my Mother didn't think I needed any. She really wanted to know every single thing I did. That's why I was such a good liar!

I was kind of spoiled. I didn't get braces, or piano lessons, but my mother always bought me new, fashionable clothes. Of course, I was never allowed to pick them out. She did that.

My mother was very spoiled. She got clothes from the most fashionable shops, had a new car always, very expensive accessories, etc.

Truth is - I would have given up the clothes, and shared my bed and dresser for a brother or sister. I have always missed that, and I always will. My mother was sick and couldn't have any children - she had me against the doctors' advice.

I left home when I was 17, and at 19 I got my own place.