Happy St. Patrick's Day

In honor of St. Patrick's Day and my son Gavin's birthday, I am wishing everyone a happy day!!

I am so excited about our upcoming trip. We leave on on Friday for Florida. I will get to see mom, daddy and Aunt Mildred. My kids are as excited as I am. Gavin will be baptized on Saturday and we are making plans to use every moment there to find an area to call home. Shaun's not as excited about the move(I think) as the rest of us are, but he is coming along slowly. He is however very excited about visiting FLorida and seeing all of our friends and family.

So, there is the long and short going on in my life these days. Not very exciting I'm afraid.
I look forward to seeing some of you soon!!

It's Been Awhile

I haven't been very diligent in keeping my blog, so I will do my best to catch you up. Basically, I have managed to convince Shaun to move back to Florida. I leave on Tuesday to look for schools and houses. I am so excited!! I miss my family, my kids miss their grandparents and I miss my friends. Shaun is in a position where he can look for other employment, so he is looking in the southeast for a position. The search is going very well and he has had a couple of offers. Now, my job is to narrow down a place to live and since he works from home and travels to customers that becomes a difficult search with many options. I have narrowed it down to somewhere between Tampa and Lake Mary. Our family will be going to Florida for 10 days at the end of March. Part of that time I will be showing Shaun the areas that I like. We are planning on leaving here mid-June when the kids get done with school. This is a big move for us. We don't want to have to move again so we are prayerfully considering to right place to go.
I have been almost scared to tell anyone just in case something happens, but Shaun assures me that it is a done deal.

In January I went to New Mexico and helped my mom move my Great-aunt to Florida to live with my mom. That was a busy time. Aunt Mildred has lived in the same home for over60 years and has many things. Packing her home took a lot of organization, but was so much fun. She and Uncle Howard have experienced so many amazing adventures. They lived active lives and have many memorabilia of that life. I learned so much about them that I did not know. Aunt Mildred and I are very much alike. She loves to shop. I love to shop. She loves shoes, purses and jewelery. And so do I. I've decided I cannot be blamed for these things...it's in my genes. I am so glad mom has the opportunity to take care of her and that Aunt Mildred has someone to take care of her so she doesn't have to live in a nursing home.

Now you are up on my life...mostly anyway.