So what can you do with a box and tape, what can you do with a box and tape, what can you do with a box and tape everyday is magic. So I may not be a song writer but that is what we are living in. A sea of boxes. I am kind of excited about next week b/c we will get to pack the stuff we are actually using. That will be fun to get all of that ready to go. So next week might be a little crazy but it will be good at the same time. It will be fun to be back in Indiana again and at the same time I am sad that I will be leaving here. As it comes closer and closer the wheels of regret and second doubts come to full circle. We still have some things we are anxiousness about some things I know that isn’t helping. I just we had finalizations on everything; that would make things a little easier. But we are taking a leap in faith that everything will work out and the way it’s supposed to.
So we are venturing down this weekend to the house. We are going to paint a few rooms and clean cabinets and toilets… you know really exciting stuff like that. I’m excited about it b/c then when we move next week those things will be completed, well almost. Tait still won’t be with us until the end of June. Which I have to say I am totally not looking forward to being separated again. That was REALLY difficult last time when we moved to Wisconsin but unfortunately with his job not starting until July he really wants to work the entire month of June, you know for the income flow. So it should be good but it will be difficult. With the new rules of the county he won’t get to take any of his days, as “pay out days” so he will be taking off the 5 days he has left during the 4 weeks he will remain behind so he will have basically 3 days weekends so we will only be separated 3 days before he comes back or leaves. So it will be fine. I feel badly for him b/c he won’t have a lot to do while he’s in Kenosha, but he’ll be able to clean and ready for our “final inspection.” At least I won’t have to be doing that Yeah for me!!
So I’m going to really try hard to get into shape when we move. My friend Abby weighed about the same as I did and she lost all of her weight; she when from a size 24 to a size 5 in a year. She is now a physical trainer and I have asked her to train me! I told her that I want to get where she is. So we have an appointment set up the first week we are back. She is going to help guide me and mold me. She is SO excited and I have to say SOOOOO AM I! I’m going to be working in Wabash and that’s where she works is in Wabash so I will be able to go there either before work, during work, or after work for training sessions and I couldn’t be happier about it. It’s going to be a lot of work and I’m okay with that, but I have to change my life style. I know I have tried this before but having someone that has done this before and knows the challenges I will be facing will be good. So I thought about blogging about it. I know it will be harder to do because I won’t have the time in front of the computer that I will before, but I’m hoping that I will keep it up, even if it’s one a week or twice a week I can keep a record of what’s going on and maybe it will keep me motivated. I thought even about joining a group that is already established… maybe that would help too. It will be hard trying to work, take care of the kids, and work out especially with Tait not being with us… but I have to try. I’m hoping that I can make the commitment and get where I want to be. I hope I can “drink some of the Kool-Aid” if you know what I mean. So we’ll see.
I think that’s all of the update that I have for now. We are just busy getting ready for another life change. I’m excited it will be a good move for us and it will be so wonderful being back home and having some access to things we to wanted have before. Kind of our “dream list” so it will be good.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Cat is OUT of the BAG
So the bag is no empty. We are INDIANA bound! Yes that’s right we are returning home. Man it’s weird to type that. We have lived in WI for the past four years. Crazy crazy times. So much has happened since we left the state of Indiana. We added a family member, met some GREAT people, learned a lot of things, was able to be humbled in ways that I never thought possible. It has been an adventure but I’m so ready to be home. It’s so strange to think that we are going back home… yep home where we grew up. Now we are going to return… Bitter sweet I would say. I will LOVE the fact we are by family again. THAT I can’t wait for. We will be able to participate in family activities. And the best part is our cost of living won’t kill us anymore… SIGN ME UP FOR THAT! We are packing packing packing packing packing packing and packing. We have gotten stuff done, but there is SO much to do. We cleaned the garage this weekend. It’s ALL SET. The basement is packed. The upstairs closets are pretty much packed. The rooms upstairs are not completed yet… they will be but not yet, after all we still have 2 more weeks in our house, so we can’t have everything. We have organized everything, we started cleaning cabinets and rooms as we empty them, but it’s again hard when you still live there. But we are making progress.
Updates on Jobs.
I start my new job on June 10th at a company in Wabash. It’s a headquarters. I’m very excited about it. I will be able to work my way up and proof myself and it’s definitely an opportunity for me! It’s going to be great. Tait. Well his update is a bit muddier. He hasn’t been officially hired yet by the county he interviewed for. They have told him multiple times that they want him and please don’t take another job, but the hitch is the job they want him for there is a lady in the spot. She is leaving the spot b/c she’s her husband took another job south and so she is trying to transfer to another county. So she’s waiting her hire date before she is turning in her end date. So that means they can’t hire Tait “officially” until they get that date. So we are kind of in Limbo but we are taking faith that by the end of June he will be hired and in the July training class. That is our hope It would be even better if he was hired by June 17th, that would be my birthday wish. So we’ll see what happened. Time will only tell and as you all know I’m LOVE to be patient.
I am apprehensive about the move. There are some things that I’m really going to missing from Kenosha. I have made some great friends and I’ll be sad to lose those friends. It will be strange going back to Indiana and trying to “relearn” how to make friends once again, in an area that I grew up in. It’ll be strange.
Kids update!
Okay so the kids are more than excited about the move. Lehna has said she is worried about leaving this house that we are in. she said that she doesn’t want to leave our house. I told her that the house doesn’t come with us. I know that once we get there she’ll adjust. She just wanted to be able to finish the school year and she’ll be able to do that. Oh and Lehna was baptised. She was baptised in four days! She decided she wanted to be baptised before we moved. I totally understand the reasoning and was happy to have her get what she wanted.
Maya is ready to go. She wants to be gone and moved and there. Nikolai he doesn’t really care. I know we will have some adjustments to new bedrooms and such so that will be some adjustment.
I will be happy when we get in the house and really make it ours. I know that we will need to do some cleaning and getting some things taken care of and once that’s taken care of that will be good. I’m excited. New adventure here we come!
Monday, May 13, 2013
Why is that the weekends go so fast?
I know I say this all the time but could the weekends just slow down just a LITTLE bit! I mean by the time I actually get to sit down it’s like the day is over!
Part of it was we went traveling again this weekend and that just sucks all the time down the drain. We have been trying to decide what our future will hold for the Wagner family and well we still don’t have anything nailed down yet. So we are still in the planning stages and well the LIMBO Stage to be honest with you. Hopefully more to come soon.
We did leave earlier this time to come back only b/c I KNEW my house was a disaster and I wanted to get it in some sort of order before the week started. I mean the week it only gets messier and messier so I wanted to get ahead of it. Tonight I won’t have any kind of time to do anything because Tait has training and I have speech therapy. I’m half tempted just not to show up. I truly am not looking forward to 3 hours of them blabbing at me about how music encourages communication. But it’s for the best I guess and I will go and hopefully not be too bored out of my head. Hey maybe I’ll learn something! That could happen. It might… don’t laugh!
Let me see what else. Oh Mother’s Day was this weekend. I wasn’t able to talk to my mom but I did leave her a message on her cell phone. I know she had some things going on with her mother in law so that might be why she was unavailable. I am going to call her on her birthday however which is in 2 days. I did get some cute things from my kiddos. Lehna made me a book mark; both girls made me flowers from tissue paper, and cards.
We did get to see my nephew Landon play base ball this weekend. He had a game so we were able to go down and watch them play. There were more balls outside of the ball field then there were on the inside, every few minutes you heard “heads up” b/c another ball was hit outside the fence. There are two fields right next to each other. It was fun. The girls were able to play at the park at the same time so it was nice. But when we were at the ball field I saw a dog that looked JUST LIKE CHELEASE! She was huge just like Chelease used to be. She was just a bit more brown then Chelease was but it was amazing, she even had the rubbed off fur on her legs where she laid down. I sent a picture of her to Marcus and Marcus agreed it was crazy strange!
So this week we have another fun filled week of cleaning and sorting. I’m still not done with my purging. There is so much to do its CRAZY! I have decided that I’m not going to take anymore to the church donation any more however, I was way too embarrassed by the amount of stuff we were giving and didn’t want them to be like “this is all from the Wagner’s” so I’m going to donate to goodwill. I have given the church almost three van load… that’s enough.
So that’s all I got for now.
Part of it was we went traveling again this weekend and that just sucks all the time down the drain. We have been trying to decide what our future will hold for the Wagner family and well we still don’t have anything nailed down yet. So we are still in the planning stages and well the LIMBO Stage to be honest with you. Hopefully more to come soon.
We did leave earlier this time to come back only b/c I KNEW my house was a disaster and I wanted to get it in some sort of order before the week started. I mean the week it only gets messier and messier so I wanted to get ahead of it. Tonight I won’t have any kind of time to do anything because Tait has training and I have speech therapy. I’m half tempted just not to show up. I truly am not looking forward to 3 hours of them blabbing at me about how music encourages communication. But it’s for the best I guess and I will go and hopefully not be too bored out of my head. Hey maybe I’ll learn something! That could happen. It might… don’t laugh!
Let me see what else. Oh Mother’s Day was this weekend. I wasn’t able to talk to my mom but I did leave her a message on her cell phone. I know she had some things going on with her mother in law so that might be why she was unavailable. I am going to call her on her birthday however which is in 2 days. I did get some cute things from my kiddos. Lehna made me a book mark; both girls made me flowers from tissue paper, and cards.
We did get to see my nephew Landon play base ball this weekend. He had a game so we were able to go down and watch them play. There were more balls outside of the ball field then there were on the inside, every few minutes you heard “heads up” b/c another ball was hit outside the fence. There are two fields right next to each other. It was fun. The girls were able to play at the park at the same time so it was nice. But when we were at the ball field I saw a dog that looked JUST LIKE CHELEASE! She was huge just like Chelease used to be. She was just a bit more brown then Chelease was but it was amazing, she even had the rubbed off fur on her legs where she laid down. I sent a picture of her to Marcus and Marcus agreed it was crazy strange!
So this week we have another fun filled week of cleaning and sorting. I’m still not done with my purging. There is so much to do its CRAZY! I have decided that I’m not going to take anymore to the church donation any more however, I was way too embarrassed by the amount of stuff we were giving and didn’t want them to be like “this is all from the Wagner’s” so I’m going to donate to goodwill. I have given the church almost three van load… that’s enough.
So that’s all I got for now.
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Update!!!
Don’t you just hate it when time gets away from you? I had been doing SOOOO well with my little updates and etc than… you know I stopped. Sometimes you know…
Anywho. Soooooo life. Well I can’t go into much detail but things are going to be changing for our little family. We have stuff going on behind the scenes that I can’t get into too much but change is near and coming upon us FAST! So stay tuned for later updates. I feel like a news caster that is giving you a “teaser” for more on this tune back in at 10. No I’m hoping that I will be able to release more information soon, but can’t… not yet.
So let’s going on with things I CAN talk about. Well I started my job at the Sheriff’s Department. It’s fine. I wouldn’t describe it as WONDERFUL, quite honestly it’s BORNING. I have to go and look for work all the time and I hate that. I was assured that I wouldn’t have to do that, but apparently I do or they don’t realize that they truly don’t need a full time person in this position. But whatever I am not the chief I’m just a soldier. It’s kind of strange getting used to everyone around you carrying a gun, and they are very proud of the fact that they are carrying a gun. I still sense the arrogance when they walk around me, but that will take awhile for that to fade. It’s kind of a bizarre thing to be honest with you. Law enforcement what a crazy field. I work at the detention center so it’s like Ladoga Academy. You can’t go anywhere without control having to pop doors on you and you are constantly on camera. You just feel like you are being watched at all times. Which you are and it’s for your own safety so its fine. We have pretty mild inmates/detainees here so it’s fine. I am supposed to be teaching other departments, which I learned the front desk position. That was a BUSY position. I’m sure she does it VERY quickly but I felt SO slow at it. So I wrote lots and lots of notes on it, so when I go back in the role in however long I will have some idea of what the heck I’m doing. As long as I can continue to have time to be able to compile my notes after doing the job. I should be fine. I have to tell you though my chair is so uncomfortable. It’s seriously the worst chair ever. I’m going to have to do something about that. Anywho… enough about work blah!
The kids and etc. The kids are great. They are really in slow down mode since school is coming to an end. Lehna works everyday to get more AR points for her swimming party. She only needs 1 more point which equals two books and you would have thought that this is something she will die over if she doesn’t get. Life or death let me tell you. She normally reads 2 – 3 books per week so she is of course being very dramatic.
Maya well she is ready for school to be over. She doesn’t like school or her teacher and really doesn’t want to have to get out of bed every morning. And usually I am getting her ready and she goes back to sleep in the bed.
Nikolai is almost done with the speech therapy program we have had him in. He is still struggling with speaking but he does speak more. He is now working on developing the right sounds with the right words. So sometimes we can’t understand what he’s saying and we have to have him repeat what he is wanting. Tait has gone to the full classes and he said that they are so boring. LOL We only have one more class left and I get to attend it After this last class they will then set up a time to reevaluate him. We can say that he has improved he now has the desire to want to talk; he just now has to figure out the words and sounds. So we can continue to do more individual therapy sessions, group speech therapy, or classes where it’s more individualized. The issue will be timing of course b/c a lot of the parents involved with this class actually don’t work so having their child scheduled from 10-12 okay b/c they don’t work anyway. For the other working parents it more difficult. The therapist asked if our daycare provider would be willing to bring Nikolai in for the classes or if she would be willing to have her come to her home to work with him. HUMMMMM I don’t like either of those options. Can’t you just arrange for an evening class from 5:30- 6:30 once a week or something and put all the WORKING parents in that… so who knows. Tait wants to be done with the entire thing. He doesn’t want to move forward with any more classes, he feels that they haven’t helped at all. Which I have to agree, I don’t think they have been that helpful. They have been a LITTLE but I think I could have just read it in a book for as much information we have ‘gained’ in this process. So we’ll see. With stuff a happening we will figure out a path.
So we took family pictures they are all over my facebook page. I like getting their pictures taken once a year and I’m so glad that we have done this because I love having the update of them. It’s amazing to see how much our children have grown from year to year. We get their school pictures but with Nikolai not being in school yet he would be “left out”. It love updating my pictures and enjoying the new ones. I know it’s such a silly thing but I truly enjoy having them updated.
Purging purging purging. So one thing that I AM doing is cleaning. We are purging a BUNCH of stuff. We have so much crap in our house that we have to reduce and reduce some more. It’s amazing just how much stuff you “collect”. I have taken FOUR van loads to goodwill and still have MORE. How is that even possible, but it is trust me and we are getting rid of stuff. We still have quite a bit more to go through but we have made a HUGE dent in what we are doing. Our church is doing a fund raiser for the Young women and they need stuff to sell for the yard sell so we are donating donating donating!!! I’m hoping we will get more to them before next week as the sale is on the 18th! We are going south this weekend so we will lose this weekend, but I think I can get in gear and get more to them. We are going to pack more of Helen and Tim’s stuff in the van on this trip to give it to them. I told them that whatever they want they better come and get b/c if they don’t take it, its going! So supposedly they are coming to get some, but we will bring what we can this weekend down to them. I have also been putting “free” stuff on our yard for people to take… that’s been fun too. Yesterday we put out a power wheels, that needs a new battery and it’s HUGE so we gave that away. Maya of course cried. But we told her that we needed to get rid of stuff and I promised her I would get another charger for her power wheels that she has right now. So she was okay with it.
Well that’s life as we know it for now. I know it’s not super exciting but sometimes life is just boring.
Anywho. Soooooo life. Well I can’t go into much detail but things are going to be changing for our little family. We have stuff going on behind the scenes that I can’t get into too much but change is near and coming upon us FAST! So stay tuned for later updates. I feel like a news caster that is giving you a “teaser” for more on this tune back in at 10. No I’m hoping that I will be able to release more information soon, but can’t… not yet.
So let’s going on with things I CAN talk about. Well I started my job at the Sheriff’s Department. It’s fine. I wouldn’t describe it as WONDERFUL, quite honestly it’s BORNING. I have to go and look for work all the time and I hate that. I was assured that I wouldn’t have to do that, but apparently I do or they don’t realize that they truly don’t need a full time person in this position. But whatever I am not the chief I’m just a soldier. It’s kind of strange getting used to everyone around you carrying a gun, and they are very proud of the fact that they are carrying a gun. I still sense the arrogance when they walk around me, but that will take awhile for that to fade. It’s kind of a bizarre thing to be honest with you. Law enforcement what a crazy field. I work at the detention center so it’s like Ladoga Academy. You can’t go anywhere without control having to pop doors on you and you are constantly on camera. You just feel like you are being watched at all times. Which you are and it’s for your own safety so its fine. We have pretty mild inmates/detainees here so it’s fine. I am supposed to be teaching other departments, which I learned the front desk position. That was a BUSY position. I’m sure she does it VERY quickly but I felt SO slow at it. So I wrote lots and lots of notes on it, so when I go back in the role in however long I will have some idea of what the heck I’m doing. As long as I can continue to have time to be able to compile my notes after doing the job. I should be fine. I have to tell you though my chair is so uncomfortable. It’s seriously the worst chair ever. I’m going to have to do something about that. Anywho… enough about work blah!
The kids and etc. The kids are great. They are really in slow down mode since school is coming to an end. Lehna works everyday to get more AR points for her swimming party. She only needs 1 more point which equals two books and you would have thought that this is something she will die over if she doesn’t get. Life or death let me tell you. She normally reads 2 – 3 books per week so she is of course being very dramatic.
Maya well she is ready for school to be over. She doesn’t like school or her teacher and really doesn’t want to have to get out of bed every morning. And usually I am getting her ready and she goes back to sleep in the bed.
Nikolai is almost done with the speech therapy program we have had him in. He is still struggling with speaking but he does speak more. He is now working on developing the right sounds with the right words. So sometimes we can’t understand what he’s saying and we have to have him repeat what he is wanting. Tait has gone to the full classes and he said that they are so boring. LOL We only have one more class left and I get to attend it After this last class they will then set up a time to reevaluate him. We can say that he has improved he now has the desire to want to talk; he just now has to figure out the words and sounds. So we can continue to do more individual therapy sessions, group speech therapy, or classes where it’s more individualized. The issue will be timing of course b/c a lot of the parents involved with this class actually don’t work so having their child scheduled from 10-12 okay b/c they don’t work anyway. For the other working parents it more difficult. The therapist asked if our daycare provider would be willing to bring Nikolai in for the classes or if she would be willing to have her come to her home to work with him. HUMMMMM I don’t like either of those options. Can’t you just arrange for an evening class from 5:30- 6:30 once a week or something and put all the WORKING parents in that… so who knows. Tait wants to be done with the entire thing. He doesn’t want to move forward with any more classes, he feels that they haven’t helped at all. Which I have to agree, I don’t think they have been that helpful. They have been a LITTLE but I think I could have just read it in a book for as much information we have ‘gained’ in this process. So we’ll see. With stuff a happening we will figure out a path.
So we took family pictures they are all over my facebook page. I like getting their pictures taken once a year and I’m so glad that we have done this because I love having the update of them. It’s amazing to see how much our children have grown from year to year. We get their school pictures but with Nikolai not being in school yet he would be “left out”. It love updating my pictures and enjoying the new ones. I know it’s such a silly thing but I truly enjoy having them updated.
Family ~ 2013
My Three Kiddos
Lehna Marie
Maya Elizabeth
Nikolai Anthony
Purging purging purging. So one thing that I AM doing is cleaning. We are purging a BUNCH of stuff. We have so much crap in our house that we have to reduce and reduce some more. It’s amazing just how much stuff you “collect”. I have taken FOUR van loads to goodwill and still have MORE. How is that even possible, but it is trust me and we are getting rid of stuff. We still have quite a bit more to go through but we have made a HUGE dent in what we are doing. Our church is doing a fund raiser for the Young women and they need stuff to sell for the yard sell so we are donating donating donating!!! I’m hoping we will get more to them before next week as the sale is on the 18th! We are going south this weekend so we will lose this weekend, but I think I can get in gear and get more to them. We are going to pack more of Helen and Tim’s stuff in the van on this trip to give it to them. I told them that whatever they want they better come and get b/c if they don’t take it, its going! So supposedly they are coming to get some, but we will bring what we can this weekend down to them. I have also been putting “free” stuff on our yard for people to take… that’s been fun too. Yesterday we put out a power wheels, that needs a new battery and it’s HUGE so we gave that away. Maya of course cried. But we told her that we needed to get rid of stuff and I promised her I would get another charger for her power wheels that she has right now. So she was okay with it.
Well that’s life as we know it for now. I know it’s not super exciting but sometimes life is just boring.