Hey everyone!  It's been a long time since I have been on here.  I'm glad to be back though and now that winter is getting closer i will try and check in more often.  I have missed all kinds of stuff on here since I've been gone... The site is getting soooo big!   I have lots of reading to do, and hopefully I can check in with some friends too.  Drop me a line don't be a stranger...

Hopefully I will talk to y'all soon.

 hey y'all it's been awhile since I have been on here... Busy summer this year and the babysitting is booming!!!  Lots of kids here most of the time.  I have a week off though since the kids are all on vacation. 

Lets see since I have been on, someone attempted to break in to my house while Joe, my husband was working.  Scared the crap out of me.  It was pure fluke that the doors were locked, I had been out to a festival here in the community with the kids and we got home late, about 10pm.  I never do this but I locked the doors right after we came in I guess because it was late and I knew nobody would be around at that time and I knew I wasn't going anywhere.  Funny though because normally I don't lock up until I go upstairs to bed.  This particular night I fell asleep on the couch, I had turned off the TV because I felt myself dozing off and the only lights on were the outside light and the hall light for the kids.  I sleep on the couch sometimes when Joe isn't home so that is fairly normal.  I had been asleep about a half and hour when I woke up to the sounds of someone trying to get in my front door...The door is only 2 feet from my head.  I layed there unable to move for a few moments and I listened to make sure it wasn't in my head and I knew it wasn't Joe since he works and hour away and drives in a car pool.  My cat was lying on the floor right beside me and the kids were all speeping but after about 5mins I decided to get up and try to grab the phone.  I forgot the TV remote was lying on me and it dropped when I went to get up and crashed on the floor.  That crash and the cat jumping upto the window sill at the same time startled who ever it was they ran away.  Since then i haven't slept all that much.  Our community is usually so quiet I have lived here my whole life and the only other attemped break in happened 7yrs ago coincidentally to me.  But that was different there were two men forcefully trying to get in and they were captured by the police in my yard and they were hitch hikers form Far away.  So it is unusual that these things happen here.  Lately there has been about a dozen thefts and a handfull attempted break ins.  We the comunity belive that it is someone who lives here and knows us and our habits well... Who knows I can only hope they catch this person SOON 

Well according to my kids and the children I watch, the pool is COOL!   They have had a great time slashing around.  My 7yr old even snuck her bathing suit to school and put it on before she got home so that she could peel the clothes off while stepping off the bus and jump into the pool.  Too funny.  For the baby who is too little to go in the pool with out me, I got out the plastic kiddie pool and filled it with about 2" of water and put it on the deck with me and she loved it.  The sun heated it up in no time, by supper it was like sitting in the bath.

Aside from the pool not much happened around here and it was great!  We got strawberries that were picked today, from a co-worker and I was going to make jam tonight but we all have been diving into the berries all day one here two there I don't think I will have enough berries to make the jam.  Oh well, we could be eating worse and what is better than fresh strawberries??? 

We filled the pool for the kids today.  It's not a huge pool but still a good size just past my knees if I am stnding in it.  Perfect size for them to get cooled off an play but not so deep that I have to worry a whole lot.  i still sit right on the deck and watch while they play.  We called the water guy to bring water to fill it and it was going to take about a week for him to get here with all the calls he has right now, so Joe decided to get a friend and bring a fire truck over to fill it!  That was neat and in in no time we were watching the kids swim.  If anything we had trouble keeping the water in the pool the pressure behind the hose was CRAZY... but now it is done and the kids can swim  Happy day! 

Cheers