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Moving to Texas

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Texas!

Chris and I on graduation day

Yes, I am as surprised as you. I guess I was hoping for Washington so much, I didn’t think there would be a problem going back! So Chris calls and says we can go here, here, Texas, or here. And none of those “here” locations were what I wanted. It threw my day for a loop and I spent it researching each location. We didn’t have to take Texas, but it was the best for us.

So I will end my stay with my Dad and move on to hotter areas! We leave in a couple of weeks – stopping to see a pregnant friend and then stopping to stay a day back home with Grandma. I’m already thinking we may stay for two days back home because who knows when we will get to see her again. It is interesting to note that from Grandma to my Mom and from Grandma to our new place in TX is the same distance. One just goes west and the other goes south. That makes me feel closer.

I’ve been looking up schools for the kids (one sounds great, one is just eh), utility companies (in Texas you can pick your electric company!) and faxing paperwork to the housing office. We should have a house ready and waiting for us when we arrive – hopefully anyway as we are moving ourselves. I can’t imagine staying in a hotel and paying for the uhaul (or whatever company we end up going with!) for days over what they say it should take us to move. I’m calling this week to get the house business finished up!

Crafting has been few and far between the past couple of weeks. I am still doing the craft podcast and if you have any ideas, suggestions, want to be a guest, anything like that then leave me a comment! I have a lot of show ideas and am not against recording now when the mood hits you.

I did get a new craft book and start a new project!

30 Was Yesterday

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Yesterday was my 30th birthday. I managed to stay offline for most of it – that felt good. I do have my new BlackBerry so I wasn’t completely disconnected! I had a really good day.

The highlight wasn’t crafting, it wasn’t reading or going somewhere. The highlight was my nap. For some reason in the middle of the afternoon I was exhausted. All the kids were laying down so I did too. I figure hey a twenty minute nap might be good! Two hours later I wake up to find all the kids woke up before me. I bundled them into the car and we went to get dinner supplies. Okay really we went to get cake mix because I wanted cupcakes. Once we got to the store I decided to make chili. Yum!

So I could show you that I shopped for cake mix

and then a picture of the yummy cupcake!

But that would be kind of mean wouldn’t it. 😉

I still have a lot left if you want to stop by. I was going to make 30 but only ended up with 28. I could have made 29, but I don’t think 30. Ah well. We didn’t have candles though the kids wanted to get numbers.

My brother got me a bluetooth headset – he said he doesn’t want me having to grab the phone when I’m on the drive to Texas (a post about Texas soon) –

and I won AirDrives kids earphones from A Mom’s Review contest – and they arrived yesterday! Fun timing.

My Mom sent me a beautiful horse pin

and a book This Life She’s Chosen – signed by the author!

My Dad is looking for a phone cradle – never having heard of what that is, my brother explained it is a holder for your phone that (his did this anyway) attached to the vent. So it just sits there while you drive! Very cool.

Both of my brothers have this weekend off so I think we will have a cookout. The weather has been nice here, sure we have some rain, but overall good.

I’ve been lucky, I’ve always had great birthdays. Today I am 30 and a day (technically not until the middle of the afternoon) and it is just as good as yesterday.

5 Hands for High 5

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My friend Marie Ynami puts on a cool event for Mom’s every year – Mommy Fest! This year is the fifth year she is putting this together and to celebrate she is holding a High 5 contest for chocolate. All you need to do is take a picture of five of something – you can see my five crafts over at Crafter Cast – and here I have five hands. These are mine (obviously the biggest hand), then going clockwise we have my daughter, my son, the younger of the nephews I watch, and then the second youngest one. They loved taking the picture and we have a few because they wanted to try standing close to the chair, leaning far away, hands all touching, not touching, etc.

Mommy Fest is being held May 12-16 and will have more contests, freebies, exhibitors and more.

Tell Me Thursday – Crafty Space

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My current crafty space is so much smaller then I am used to! As you can see from my picture yesterday we have student desks set up and my boxes of card making supplies around it. This set up is in the living room and the student desks are what the kids use when they want to sit and do school work. My Dad bought them for the kids and I have to say, they love them. I’ve been sitting at the biggest desk and making cards. It is a small work area so I have to be careful what I work on and how many tools I have out. I have perfected working in an assembly line fashion and that does help.

The supplies have been out for a week and they are getting put away today. We are starting a family dinner night and since that is Thursdays, I need the stuff out of the way so my nephews little hands don’t get into my things! Of course the kids will either all want to play outside or play the Wii and I doubt my crafty stuff will even be of interest to them.

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