Making Memories....

Another day...

Hello again!Yesterday my husband took off work because he had a phone interview for a possible job down south.Only 3 hours after the interview they called him to go down there in Mississippi for a personal interview.He said he'll go see what they offer,if he can make pretty much close to what he's making now,he may take the offer.He had another interview with another company about 1 week ago & he will be getting another interview shortly.These jobs are all in different states.I am so excited about him getting one of those jobs as I have been wanting to move a little further south.He has a phone interview for a job in North Carolina....that would be a great place to live.Although at this point I'll go anywhere.I like change,I don't like things to stay the same...it gets  boring after a while.

After his phone interview my oldest 2 girls attended a scrapbooking class at our public library.The paper said scrapbook on canvas but when we picked them up,they had a 12x12 scrapbook!I was so excited for them b/c now they have their own scrapbooks & they actually started it there.They both made a page about when we visited Mackinaw City,which is located exactly where the northern & southern peninsulas of Michigan meet...really pretty place.  They were both so excited that they got their own scrapbook and the best part is that it was a free class taught by Michaels...hurray for Michaels!Later I will take a picture of them with their scrapbooks and upload the pictures when I can get hubby to do it.He's been working in Ohio a lot and is planning on bringing us with him this week for the weekend to bring us to one of the state parks that he has visited and said is really beautiful.I wonder if there are any letterboxes there?Hmm...

After we picked up the girls from their class,we went to another library beacuse my oldest daughter won a weekly prize from the raffle...a $25 gift card to Target!She was so excited!We both knew she would win as she had 30 entries.You get 1 entry slip for every book you read & you can hold on to them until there is a prize you want to enter into,so she held on to her slips until Target came along...we had just missed the drawing for the mall gift card,but this may be better as Target has some great clearances!After that,we went searching for a new vacuum cleaner as we haven't had one in a while since ours went kapooey!We bought a Dyson a few weeks ago & returned it the next day as it didn't suck so good,but I did love how quiet it was and how easy it was to push,but the attachments were also annoying.When we were at the library we read in consumer reports that the Eureka Boss was a great buy so we bought that one at Best Buy...the box even says it sucks 60% more than Dyson!It does suck great as you can feel the power when you are pushing it.But the cord isn't so long,I have to keep unplugging it to go to the next room....a real pain in the behind.The attachments are a real pain,too b/c you have to have the vacuum facing you b/c where the hose is,it isn't flexible enough when you are vacumming on the side.It is also very hard to push that button with your foot to recline the vacuum after starting it so you can vacuum...you have to push it at a weird angle for it to recline....I mean,what were these engineers thinking when they made this design?Obviously they must not vacuum since they didn't care about what I consider big issues,it's not like I want to spend more time than I have to vacuuming!ugh!But husband says we'll keep it since it wasn't that expensive and since it does suck good.I do miss how with the Dyson I could vacuum our bathroom rugs without it eating up the rugs,with this vacuum you have to use the attachments to do the rugs b/c it really eats up the rugs even though the rugs are quite big.

Well,I need to vacuum downstairs today,give the girls their assignments (it's just after 8am and they are all still asleep),mop the floors,wash husband's work clothes,and I'm sure there are some other things I need to do.I won't have to worry about lunch b/c yesterday my husband bought us some pizza from pizza hut so we still have one medium pizza & a personal pizza left.Yummy!We love their pan pizzas...my favorite topping is tomato.

I was so excited yesterday my amazon.com order came in,so now we have the cookbook & beading book for our own collection.I alos ordered a scrapbook from their marketplace so I can't wait to get that one as I've never seen the inside of that book.I also want to order the book Mad for Minis by Michelle Charles,I was hoping to find it at the library so I could see if it's as good as I hope,b/c I really love the idea of those minis..like the altoids tins,etc.I have collected some altoids tins and tic tac containers to decorate,but I would love to see what ideas are in that book.Amazon.com doesn't even have that book yet so I can't get a deal on it,I'm too frugal to pay whole price for a book I haven't even seen yet.I love to order from amazon.com b/c i usually get certificates for them by doing various online surveys from different companies & I love the fact that you get free shipping by only spendig $25,so that's a great deal!I just love books and so do my daughters,so I am happy about that.Well,this is it for now,I may type more later today,but we'll see how the day goes...I might take the girls to Chuck e Cheese since I just got 12 tokens sent to me in my email. Bye!

hi

1:14 AM, Jul. 29, 2006 .. Posted by jenniferwells

I came across your blog because I am up late at night "random blogging" :)

We just moved south from IN because my husband got a new job. I hope all works well for your family!

In His Love,
Jen