Something I am very adamant about:

FDA on BPA

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/health/16plastic.html

Alot has happened with our family since Mike came off the road and I last posted.

I really don’t want to go into all of it. Many challenges and hard times, but we are back on a positive road.

I am gradually getting back to working on my internet businesses and most importantly our family blog. I will be doing a wonderful re-vamping/redesign on the entire blog after the first of the year and I’m looking forward to it.

Gregory is doing WONDERFULLY in school. He’s saying words, feeding himself and drinking from a cup sometimes now!!! WOOT!!! Potty training is going exceptionally well, too!

Felicity is making straight A’s in school. She’s reading 2 levels ahead of herself and we are thrilled!

Mike is now working where Gregory goes to therapy/learning lab(aka school) and is very happy. He is a Therapy Tech, helping with the kids day in and day out and the kiddos there just love “Mr Mike”.

I’m still at JoAnns part time and love it. I get out of the house around other adults and am thrilled to be working in my “realm”.

I will post more here and there between now and the New Year, just not sure how much, though.

Have a great day!

Well, Mike’s home and Gregory immediately started eating for us again.

Our offer was declined on the house and the job for Mike turned out to be a sham.  So he’s looking for work now and we continue to look for land for our new farm.

At the present time, we’re trying to make lemonade out of rotten lemons. Wish us luck!

Mike will be home this afternoon. FOR GOOD.

Trucking just didn’t work well for our family at all. Gregory won’t eat for anyone and has only had food a handful of times since Mike left. He has gone back to wanting to live on Pediasure.

Mike will be home this afternoon and quite possibly already has a new job. I will post more about that when we know something for sure.

We put an offer in on a new place in the country. 3.10 fenced acres. Nice manufactured home, which eventually we will replace with a brick home. There is a barn and coral. Land is comepletely “clean” with wonderful prairie grasses and ready for horses, a cow and goats! Not to mention, there’s a garden spot already for us to till and plant next spring. We are anxiously awaiting word on the offer.

Everyone keep their fingers crossed and if you are the praying type, please send up a prayer for us on the new farm.

The release of my new product line!

Mitchell Grace Designs

After a three year retirement, I’m ready to roll again! It feels great!

Marci, over at Down on the Farm, shared this video for the trailer of a new movie that looks to be wonderful and hopefully make a great impact on people.

This is why we are on the path we have chosen, as well.

Mike is in Virginia picking up a load. I talked with him last night. He said he has now driving that big ol’ truck on nearly every terrain imaginable. Mountains, prairie, in rain. Everything but snow. He says there is so much to learn and he is still learning everyday.

On the down side, Gregory has stopped eating almost completely since Mike left. That’s not a good thing at all.  Our new Nanny and I are working with Gregory daily to get him eating again, but it’s not making any progress. His diet is comprised of Pedisure and a yogurt or applesauce here and there.  This is so disappointing, since he had begun even feeding himself before Mike left.  If things don’t improve, we may have to re-think Mike’s trucking job. He may have to look for something using his CDL locally. We’ll just have to see.

Felicity is doing well. She’s loving our new Nanny. They go to the library nearly daily, take walks, go to the park. She’s awesome with the kids and they love her.

I am loving my new part-time job at JoAnns!  I have met so many interesting people and I love helping people with their projects, etc.  It is going to work out so well once the kids are in school. I am also currently working on my new product line.  It has been in the works for a few months. I plan to do an official release in August/September.  I’m really excited. I’ve felt that selling my previous product line was a big mistake. Live and learn. My new line has better features and designs, so maybe it’s all meant to be.

Have a great week everyone!

Mike is doing well. He was officially hired on July 8 by CR England.  As I type this, he is in Minnesota headed to Indiana, then on to Colorado.  He texted me a bit earlier, saying today was a bad day and he’d talk to me later. Yuck.  Until then, he has sounded so good every time I talk to him. Better than he’s sounded in a very, very long time. But, gotta have a bad day sometime, huh?

Summer is passing quickly!  I took a part time job at our JoAnn’s store so I can get out of the house some and meet people my own age with similar interests.  That was one of the “deals” with Mike going on the road. He said I HAD to get out of the house some. Well, I love my job and am having so much fun!

We have a new care provider (aka “Nanny”) for Gregory, that also watches Felicity for me. She’s wonderful and has experience working with Autistic children. The kids both love her and it’s wonderful to come home from work to a peaceful house and not one of utter chaos.  She will be teaching both of the kids and I how to play piano and guitar. We are so excited! She, Felicity and I will be doing some sewing, quilting and crocheting, as well. Gregory is showing interest in crochet, so maybe we can even teach him.

The kids and I are hoping to make a trip to Albuquerque, NM sometime in August and then to Ozfest in Liberal, KS in October. Liberal, KS is the *official* home of Dorothy and “The Wizard of Oz”.

We are down to one chicken. Nonnie, our Serama pullet. She has become mostly a house chicken. She goes in and out with the dogs. We hold her alot and let her run free in the house supervised. Otherwise, she has a very large cage she calls home in the family room.  She even layed her first egg yesterday!  I have more Serama eggs on the way so Nonnie can have a couple of *girl* BFF to hang out with, besides us humans. Of course, she doesn’t seem to mind hanging out with us one bit.

It’s been so long since I have posted regularly on this blog. I miss posting and I miss all of my visitors and friends that post such wonderful comments here.

Here’s things in a nutshell:

• All my chickens are all being sold/re-homed for now. Two of our rabbits have been re-homed, and one to go.
• We’ve had a house full for the past month. Matt & Katie and Katie’s friend, Jane, will all have places of their own within 2 weeks and be out of our house. Matt & Katie’s 5 dogs will be leaving with them, as well
• We sold our land to Matt & Katie, and plan to purchase more at a later time, once we decide where we definitely want to permanently call “home”.
• Mike’s last day at Tractor Supply Company is today.  He leaves tomorrow night for CDL school and will then be an OTR (over the road) truck driver. This is something we have considered for over a year in order to get us out of debt, pay for our dream farm and build a nice retirement for us. He will be gone several weeks at a time then home for a couple of days at a time, but we will be fine. Our future is worth it in the long run.
• Felicity, Gregory and I will remain where we are in Amarillo, at least for now. Our lease isn’t up on the house where we are living until November, so we have time to decide where to go from here.
• Gregory is finally interested in potty learning!!! WOOT  He also is vigilantly working on new words and sounds every week!
• Felicity is doing fabulous, as always.
• My mental health is mending, with the assistance of a new doctor. She told me it will take a while, but she will get me back to “myself”. I’m ready to get out of this yucky funk I’ve been in for three years.

Ok. I think that covers every base. Get ready for next week.  The theme of our family blog will change just a bit.  See you then!  Have a great weekend!

It’s been so long since I posted, that I forgot my login password.  Now that’s just B A D.

Things have been busy around here.  I’m working on new internet businesses getting started, Mike’s working and we’re wrapping up the school year (thank goodness).

I am trying very hard to get a schedule set up where I have time a couple of days each week to post on my blogs, so hopefully I’ll be around here more. No promises when, though.

Katie and Matt got married last Thursday.  I plan to post about it tomorrow with photos. So be sure to come back then.

Have a great evening.