More of the same and a little bit new!

   Well my DVD from Netflix is still on the counter collecting dust. I truly wasted this months subscription so next month I need to watch a lot of movies to make up for it lol.
   My husband got yet another job offer last week from a company he applied at a while back and has been wanting very badly to get into, so as nice as the newest job is he has to go where his heart leads him and so in a little over a week he will be changing jobs again. This will put a temporary strain on our finances again (waiting for the paychecks to start coming in) but this is a temporary issue and my husband is thinking long term this will be a better choice for him and our family. On a selfish note this new job means my husband will go back to rotating shifts (something he has not done in almost 4 years) I will truly miss having him home at night every 3rd week. I may complain from time to time about him hogging the bed and covers and cuddling too tight at times but I hate to sleep without him next to me, so I have already prepared myself a little and bought a long cuddle pillow to put next to me on his side of the bed lol, we will see if this helps.
   We bought Peanut a pack of pull ups today and explained that these are big boy pants and that if he is going to wear big boy pants he has to go potty in the potty chair, he seems super excited about it so starting tomorrow we will try it and see how it goes. I am so ready to be done with diapers.
   OK so this next sentence might sound odd to some of you but I am homesick! As a child we mostly lived in Florida with a few moves to Ohio and then back to Florida. (my mother could never decide where she wanted to be) When I was 17 I moved back to Florida without my mother to live with my sister and a year later when I was pregnant with my first child I moved back to Ohio to be with my mom (I think every girl wants to be close to her mom when she is going to have her first child and I was young and a little scared) So getting to the point here last year made 12 years since I moved back and I hadn't even been down to visit my family and friends, which by the way are some of the best and truest friends I have ever had. Some of us kept in touch from time to time with letters or pictures and the occasional phone calls and some of us lost touch for quite a while, my sister had been up here for visits by herself but I hadn't seen my niece or nephews since I moved. Then last year my husband did the most wonderful thing and gave me a vacation by myself to Florida to see my sister and my friends (it was my sisters 20th wedding anniversary and his gift to her was me) It was just a week but it was the most wonderful week!! And even after all that time had passed I felt at home, more so than I have in a long time. Seeing my sister and her family was wonderful and with my friends it felt like no time had passed, like we picked up right where we left off just a little bit older and wiser lol, but it has been a year now since my vacation and today I am homesick! I want to be there so bad it makes me want to cry. But Ohio is where my husband has always lived and this town we live in has been his home for 30 years how could I ever ask him to leave. So I will suck it up for now and hope that someday I will be home again with my husband by my side and it will be his home too.
   Well that is all I have for tonight so as always I hope everyone has a wonderful day and something to smile about.
  

Playing catch up again

   I can't believe how much I have been slacking on my blog. To catch up a little here, soccer is over, my oldest son's team won their finals and became the league champions (YAY) and my second son's team made it to the semi finals but unfortunately didn't make it to the finals (still YAY) I am so proud of both of them for making it so far and doing so great this season!

   My husband started his new job last week and loves it! I am so happy for him and happy for our family that once he starts getting a paycheck from the new job things should get a lot easier for us financially.
   There is no progress to report in the potty training of Peanut, hopefully there will be very soon. The potty prizes were a miss, he honestly couldn't care less about a prize so I need to find a new way to interest him in the potty again.
   I have been getting alot of stuff done around the house that I have been putting off due to our busy schedule and my procrastination, going through things and uncluttering my home and getting new pictures hung up. Now I just need to find more "me" time. I seem to have lost that somewhere along the way and I need to get back to reading, blogging, crafting and doing things I enjoy for myself, because as it says in the title of my blog, I am not just a mother and wife but also a woman. For example I have a movie I received from Netflix 2 weeks ago sitting on my counter still waiting to be watched, lol hopefully I will find time to watch it soon.
   Well that is all for now so as always I hope everyone has a great day and something to smile about!