House Hunter

I thought I'd give a little house update. First of all, the media will have you believe that in this market you can basically name your price and pick up a house. NOT!!!! I was outbid on a foreclosure a few weeks back and started looking again. I put in some offers on short sales, but they take 30-45 days to hear back from the bank. Earlier this week, my realtor said that an approval letter should be coming out in the next couple of days. Apparently, since I had the first offer in, the contract will go to me and the other offers will be back-up offers. So, I got really excited and then it turned into the waiting game. We haven't heard anything else yet but hopefully soon.
The floorplan of this house is really great. It has a Great Room that flows into the kitchen which has an island and dark cabinets, both of which I love. The master bedroom is at the back of the house and there are 3 more bedrooms at the front, along with another bathroom. The one thing I'm not thrilled with is that it is linoleum, not tile, but I figure I can change that at a later time. I'm hoping to hear back and be able to close before my lease is up here (July 27) so that I can do some cleaning and painting before I move. Anyone want to come to my painting party? :-)

School's Out!

Yesterday was the last day of school. It has been a really rough year for me and I was so looking forward to the last day. There would be no tears this year . . . think again! we take our kids up to meet their 1st grade teachers at about 9:30 and I started crying as I dropped them off. This has never happened!!!! I usually have a meltdown as I am telling them goodbye.
Anyhow, we are moving into a new building for Kinders and First next year so we got to take the kids on a tour of it. Talk about sweet!!! We are going to have interior corridors, interior restrooms and each classroom will have a Smart Board, Student Response clickers, Document Camera, and 5 student computers. The best part of all is that we will have our own copier in the building, shared just be K and 1st!!!!! No lines. Packing up my old classroom was torture . . . I threw out bag upon bag of stuff and still have about 40 boxes. But I am looking forward to all that will be available to us next year.
Now, if we could just start praying now for a sweet class with little or no behavior problems.

Numbers Time Again

Last night we did our weights, measurements, and pictures again. Let me tell you , it is quite an experience! We get our pictures done in a pair of workout shorts and a sports bra. I don't even like looking at myself dressed that way! Anyhow, there is a guy who takes our pictures each month. The first time was very intimidating. But he has such a great personality and is so encouraging that now it is not so bad.
Well, last night I was feeling a little apprehensive because it seems the weight loss has slowed down lately. However, I lost 7 1/2 pounds and 15 inches!!!! I was very happy. We have 2 more months left of WVBL and my goal is to lose 18 more pounds. I know that I can do it. I just need to commit to journaling what I eat and doing my a.m. workouts. Don't know how successful I'll be at that until school gets out, but once we're on Summer break I will have no excuses!
We have added spinning classes to our workout program. Let me say this: I hated my first class with a passion! I had shooting pains in places you really don't want to have pains. Every minute of the class was pure torture. But I decided to give it another try this week. There was a different instructor and she had a much better personality--think not a bee-yatch! There was still a lot of sweat and pain, but I made it through the whole class and decided I can do it. So, now I am a spinner, also.

May Day

I cannot believe that it is already May. I am really a slacker when it come to blogging lately. I could lie and tell you that my life is so full and busy that I cannot find a spare moment to blog, but that would be, well, a lie. There are a lot of things I haven't written about yet.

• New House I finally decided to join the grown-up world and buy a house. With the $8000 incentive for new home buyers, it is crazy for me not to. However, this whole process has been an eye-opener. FYI . . . just because a home is bank-owned and listed at a dirt cheap price, it is not necessarily going to go for that low price. Apparently the banks are listing them low and expecting people to get in a bidding war for them. I had found an absolutely perfect house, put in an offer, had to give my best and highest offer, and then waited--very impatiently--for over a week, only to find out they had gone with a higher offer. I was disappointed, but everything happens for a reason. There are several more I want to look at this weekend, so hopefully I will have good news to report soon.
• School 15 more days!!!!! I think that says it all, after the year I've had.
• Swine Flu This has been all over the news this week. I'll admit, there is a part of me that hopes that we get to have a week off, due to the health department shutting us down. However, that means we'd have to make up the days at the end of the year. I have had 7 kiddos out this week, not with the flu, but it's very strange to have so many gone at once. I am curious to find out what they all have and hope they are feeling better next week.
• WVBL This has been going really great. Tonight we all had a BBQ and Kickball game . . . beer at 2nd base :-) I have made some really great friends in this group and driving home tonight I was actually sad thinking about when we are done in July. Sunday we have a challenge at Fitness One. We get to bring friends and family and challenge them to different events. I really need them to have wall-sits be one of the events because I really kick a$$ on them. When we started the program, I could sit for 1:40. A couple of weeks ago, I could do 16:09. It seems that my weight-loss has slowed down lately and I'm trying not to get discouraged. I know my shape is changing, however, because I have very few clothes that fit properly anymore. Clothes buying isn't any fun yet because I am so between sizes that nothing works. Very discouraging.

If you stayed with me through all of that, thank you and you seriously need a life :-) I will try to update more often, so my 2 faithful readers can stay current with my oh-so-exciting life. Hopefully next time there will be some positive news on the house hunting situation.