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Moving INTO MY HOUSE!

Okay, so its been a few days since I last blogged but I wasnt ready to announce it outloud until it FELT REAL!

TOMMORROW MORNING I AM PICKING UP THE KEYS TO MY NEW HOUSE!! Thats right people I am finally MOVING! I have to sit out at the new place all day friday and wait for appliances to be delivered and then our furniture will be packed and moved on TUESDAY!!! This weekend is gonna be BUSY BUSY!! I have to paint the kids rooms, take over things I dont want the movers touching,,, like ALL MY PHOTOS!!! haha. And start moving kitchen things too.

I am sooo excited. I cant belive it has finally worked out in my favor. We clear here on post next thursday so i will spend the day wednesday cleaning. hopefully i can get most of it taken care of this weekend and just do basic cleaning.

Along with that news, Abbie had her first tumbling class today and ITS WAS FANTASTIC! She is so into it and seemed as if she really enjoyed herself. So, every wednesday into the future her and i will be tumbling together. I like to think shes a natural I mean I did gymnastics and loved it up until they wanted me to flip on a balance beam,,, YEah HeCK nOOOOO!!! But I think I did well and I think she will too.

Onto the weather, man its been awhile since I was on here. We've had some really interesting weather here recently. Its cold as crap, you wake up to snow,, only to melt into a soggy mess and THE WIND! BOy, I could tell you this wind here could pick you up and toss you right into CZECH! I am SOOO ready for spring and tanning and day trips to PLAYMOBIL!!

I will have so much more news and pics for all you blogg followers in the days to come. So, hang with me and SMILE WITH ME!! Im PSYCHED! :)

Saturday Birthday Party

Today was so enjoyable. We had a birthday party at the Spieloase Jola Playhouse. Germans celebrate birthdays differently they we Americans do, so its always neat to do birthday parties at German places. You can literally sit back and watch the differences in parties take place. WE GO WAY OVER board compared to them. !! HAHA!

The playhouse in Germany is very similar Discovery Zone in the states. Everyone has to take off there shoes, including the adults and then you just have had it. Literally. Theres mini go carts to drive... trampolines and all kids of things to climb on.

Today the party was themed Superheros and the kids got to dress as there alter-ego super hero. My son was Flash of course. Since he was about 3 he has had a major obsession with Flash. My daughter(pause), you guessed it, a princess! Are little girly girls anything else? NO!

So for your enjoyment photos of our very adventurous day.. Oh and I almost left out the best part. I decided to flirt with my husband on the trampoline and attempt to take him down. Well, that did not work out in my favor and I took a major nose dive right into the trampoline and lost the better part of my FACE! Yup.. forehead, nose, and chin royally sandpapered to death. I will leave out that photo for my own protection. Trampolines now come with a warning label. Do NOT, I repeat DO NOT try to tackle your husbands on a trampoline. Its destiny that you will lose anyways, let alone injure YOURSELF in the process!

Evening to all, Im heading to doctor my poor, poor face!

Tax Time And The Irritaion Of It All

Okay, so my husband and I dont have any weird things to file for taxes so we always do them ourselves. Its pretty self explanatory and there are so many websites on line to assist you in filing your own. Well, when it comes to money I am NOT a procrastinator and we are in the process of moving and money goes a long way. I filed my taxes on Jan 23, as soon as my husbands W2s appeared.

Usually you receive your return within 7-10 business days with direct deposit. Well, here I sit expecting them today according to what the IRS website page said all last week and the week before. Up until TODAY! They changed my expect refund date to the 17th NOW! A whole week later then what they orginially had my date. And according to there website now they only issue refunds ON A FRIDAY!! Well, hell I wish I could only pay my taxes on a FRIDAY!

Our government may be in a major depression but what I truly dont understand is that we as a government can afford to bail out Wallstreet TYCOONS in one afternoon just to watch them the coming weekend take there workers on extravagant vacations (cough couch to celebrate cough cough) there win against our government.

Im not sure what I did differently then some of my friends but I havent really heard of anyone else having an issue getting theres back. Everyone I know has received there in the normal time frame. What the heck????

What makes this even odder.... I already received states refund??!!! That usually takes at least 2-3 weeks AFTER I receive the federal refund.

I dont know whats going on with our government right now, and god help us into the future. Nothing is truly ever secure and Im waiting for the SMALL benefits I do get from having a husband in the military to start diminishing as the government cries for more of our money to give to STUPID billionaires who dont know how to give back to begin with. Honestly, who the hell NEEDS a trillion damn dollars anyways. There should be a cap on high business men. Once you hit it, if you can earn more then that,, THEN THAT MONEY AUTOMATICALLY goes to support our future children and paying the HEAVY cost of Universities. Not to mention paying our soldiers in war ZONES more money.

That my friends is a whole other topic for discussion. One that I can truly say probably should not be discussed. As Im sure you all who are not military related think we make bank while our husbands and loved ones fight in zones that could LIKELY get them killed and at times DO. You would seriously cry as a nation if I gave you the numbers my husband made for being in a war zone. And when I watch the news over banks and companies filing for bankruptcy I just know my husbands little benefits we receive will start to be cut back.

As for that, say thank you for your freedom. Even if right now the economy sucks, your still free living in a country thats trying to fix this damn mess. Rather then being in one that is killing its own people for its own benefits.

Remember, no matter how much you dont understand why we started this war and why were there,, people are dieing over there, children left parentless for US.. YOU! At least there dieing somewhere else,, and not in your own backyard. Imagine being torn from your own and watching your children die so that someone can use your window to shoot at your very own protectors of our country.

I support my husband in the war on terror, no matter how much I wish we werent at war. We are, and as a country we need to back that decision and say thank you for the ones going there and fighting so that your senior can go to college rather then be drafted to help.

File your taxes on time, and sit back and whine about how long it takes to get your money back when you give it to them each month on time. Its our Freedom.

First Steps To Getting THE HOUSE!

Okay, so I got the almighty PHONE CALL!! The landlord of the home we looked at will do a military contract and is even willing to drive to post and meet with housing to do contract together and then do inspection!! Can you believe it??? Maybe just maybe for once things are starting to look up in this whole housing department.

So, I am trying very hard to be patient and take things slow. Germans are not like Americans and are not about hurrying up and doing things. Tomorrow morning I will go into housing and meet with the off post represenative and give them the gentlemans phone number to call and set up the time to meet and get it all done!! Holy Cow, this could be really happening. :) Im so giddy on this end of the keyboard. I have a bit of paperwork to turn into my realtor, and of course I have to pay the landlords realtor as well. Odd I know but thats how the Germans do it.

Come tomorrow I should have more info.. Info stating officially that I have permission for the house and that it will be mine in the coming days or weeks.

So, go jump up and down, eat a piece of cake and pour a glass of wine. Im feeling sunshine---YYY!!!

Fabulous evening to all.. It certainly is for me :)!

Merkendorf Haus

Back to the house hunting in Germany. I finally saw the house I have been looking at online now for a month. I loved the outside from the beggining, and today I saw the inside. ITS PERFECT. Im scared to get all excited about it considering what took place with the last house I loved. But this could truly be the one. Its far enough from post to stay out of the drama of Army life, but close enough to get to post in a reasonable amount of time. Its truly everything were looking for except the kitchen could have more cabinets which we could purchase ourselves. So, here I am again at the point where I could truly be moving FINALLY!

Keep your fingers crossed for me! I will so blog more about this when I know if its truly mine or NOT! :) Its a short blog this evening, I must go prep for the dentist tom. I am truly truly TERRIFIED. If you know me personally you know why. If not, lets just say the dentisit is my phobia,,, true horrifing phobia. I cry the moment I walk in the door, I have no control over it. Lots of luck I need right now.



Good Evening to all...

New Bedrooms

I love shopping!! I mean I am a die hard shopaholic. When we moved to Germany 2 years ago, my kids had beds. Our son had a toddler bed and my daughter had a crib of course. Well the movers pretty much demolished his poor toddler bed and at one point it was together with duct tape. Our WONDERFUL PX at the time had a small selection of furniture so my husband and I bought a twin mattress and box spring. Of course they didnt have any cheap little metal frames like the ones you get in the states when you get a bed and we figured we would just keep a look out for them to come in. Well, sure enough our PX umm... DOWNGRADED... Haha they claim they remodeled to bring in more items. COUGH COUGH bull shit COUGH COUGH! All furniture ceased to exist here on our very little base. And of course we dont have some MASSIVE SUV to haul things from another post. So we dealt with the mattress on the floor. Up until last February when I couldnt take it anymore and went in search of a Nice childrens German BED. I succeeded in that for our son and he got a really cool high bed with a ladder. Well, we decided to take our then almost 2 year old out of her crib and into the big bed. Leaving me again in the same scenario I was previously in. The DAMN bed STILL sitting on the floor. I had done it to myself again. I began looking in the American classifieds for a twin set. Everything I found was to far away , and no one would bring it to me. I mean , geez, my husbands deployed, honestly how do you think a 5 foot 3 inch 135lb chick can carry some massive bedroom set up 3 floors on her own. RIGHT??? Well, just the other day in the paper low and behold A BEDROOM SET!! IN MY AREA, AND they'll deliver TO ME!! YIPPEE!!! 2 whole years later I have succeeded and both kids have rooms. COMPLETE REAL ROOMS.

Almost complete... again with the whole shopaholic thing. My 4 year old has outgrown Thomas the train and its time to pass it on to someone else so we will redecorate his room when we move into that NEW house we have yet to find. But perhaps its out there somewhere waiting for me to decorate it to death.

Of course knowing me, If i redecorate my sons room I must do my daughters as well. So I have been glued to ebay the past few days, hoping and praying for a massive POTTERY SALE somewhere on ebay. Pottery barn,, my one true love.. NEXT TO THE HUBBY ! If I could move into a pottery barn I would , I truly would live in IT!

For your viewing pleasure you may enjoy there rooms from the web. And when I find that right Pottery Barn bedding there will be more PICS. Im off for superbowl preparties. Go Cardinals.. Damn steelers have to many rings!