Been a BUSY month!!

Well, I haven't written on this thing in a while - good thing I don't make a living blogging, huh? LOL.

These past few weeks were physically exhausting, but soooo worth it! We have finally completed the move from Ball Ground to Alpharetta and I couldn't be more at ease with our move. We are closer to Mike's work and once again living in civilization - where groceries can be purchased without a planned road trip, a full tank of gas and several coolers!! The apartment is clean, the apartment community is quiet and calm, the neighbors are sane and normal and *gasp*... nice.

Our move was quite the physical challenge for me due to the pregnancy, but I still managed to be more of an asset than a liability. I hate having any physical restrictions on what I can do because I'm such an independent "do-er". I did overdo it, but the baby is fine and I'm still in one piece, so yippee skippee.

These eyes are focusing on the future so I don't get trapped in the present.

There are times I still ask myself "How the hell did my life end up like this?!?" A college degree and no decent job. From a homeowner to a foreclosed renter. An independent contributor to our household income to a completely dependent liability, from a career-having working mom to a stay-at-home mom who is now completely useless other than to love my kid and keep the house clean.... a woman who when she needed a new car, would just be able to go out and buy one, but now.... hopeless.
I just can not allow myself to sit and dwell on it or even think about the reality of it all - if I do, I'll fall into another pit of depression - and that for sure will not be helpful.

So, I'm going to focus on being thankful for our new location, looking forward to the September birth of our little Amelia, watching Elise become a big sister and then getting my career back on track after Amelia gets here.

June 1st ... by the numbers

2 girls and $1.00 in kool aid sales

• 90 degrees at 11am
• 2 crazy little girls setting up 1 Kool aid stand
• 2 customers
• 1 dollar in sales
• 50 cents each
• 1 after-shower surprise for me (a kool aid stand set up by stealthy children while I got clean)
• 50 more miles to put on my car illegally before another emissions inspection
• 250 dollar fine if i'm busted driving with an expired tag
• 0 chance of getting tag renewed without emissions passing
• 1 screwed up law introduced by tree-hugging hippies that added a "clean air force" to Georgia's government system, thereby creating yet another government entity that needs to be staffed, paid, enforced and otherwise waste money on. (oh yeah, and to cost folks money in emissions inspections and potentially increase the chance that more fines can be levied against taxpayers who are forced to drive illegally trying to pass an emissions inspection after doing repairs in order to comply)
• 1 trip to Barnes and Noble with Elise - her favorite store.... and time to reward her for that excellent report card!!

You have 1 great day. I'm off to have 1 too :)

Em