Big Changes

I have know this was coming for a little while now, the hubby enjoyed becoming best friends with denial. The house we are currently living in is being foreclosed on. So we are moving on and yes for those of you who remember it was just this Spring we moved in, 5 months ago. I knew it was going to happen, someone had come to the house and had asked us if we were renters and did we have a lease. There were also two drive by's of a car who paused briefly enough for a picture of the front of the house. That combined by the fact that we live in a town hard hit by the economy I knew it was just around the corner.

So what did I do, start looking and altering plans. I looked for a new home for our chickens and a new home for us. I also didn't put in a fall garden, scared that all my hard work would go to waste. Well the front yard looks bare and sad with no garden and the backyard is quite. We found a great couple that took Marge and Ruby even though they turned out to be Mark and Robert. That's right roosters, I had no idea. They didn't fight, got along great with Whiskey, didn't crow and let me pet them and pick them up. I guessed we would have figured it out. It turns out the couple who came to get them knew exactly where we had gotten them, a farmer now known for selling all roosters as sex link hens. He had actually sold them their first birds, 23 of them in total to bad 22 were roosters!!!! They were so kind to take them one for them and one for a neighbor. We found a great family who needed a coop, I told the hubby he should start a side business as a chicken coop builder, he said he was going to pass.

We were so lucky to find a house that had just been put up for rent that is exactly what we need. We will now be living down in Oak Island where the hubby works. I will miss this little town of Southport and our amazing neighbors. We loved being able to walk around everyday. On the other hand we will now be a LOT closer to the beach, as in walking distance so that will be nice. The hubby signs the new lease today and we move in soon, two weeks.

I know there are a lot of families going through something very similar and it is just so sad. You end up loosing so much, there are programs out there. Cash for Keys is one of them, unfortunately you have to wait until you are forced out by the bank to really get any help. For us that wasn't an option, we weren't going to wait until the bank said get out and then rush to see if we could find a place to live just so we could get reimbursed for some of our losses.

4th of July

We had a great 4th here in Southport. There was a parade, an arts and crafts sale, music, car show, food and fireworks. We got to have a nice little BBQ with friends and eat lots of good food. Though I seemed to only remember the camera for the parade.

Happy Father's Day

We were daddyless this Father's Day but did get to speak to him on the phone. This is one of the major down sides to being a military family; not always being a family together. In the words of Hudson, "Daddy missy me". When Chris left this week for a month long dry dock he hugged and kissed the kids and then headed out to the truck. As we heard his engine turn on Sailor burst into tears and said; "see mom I miss him already". Now nothing can brake my heart more than my kids upset because once again they have to spend a good amount of time with out their dad. An amazing daddy he is. So here is to Chris; we miss you much and you are the most amazing father to our children, we LOVE you.








We would like to say Thank You to all the military dads out there that are away from their families right now. We are forever grateful for your service. We hope and pray you will be home with them soon.

For the Love of Trucks

When we were pregnant with our second and found out we were having a boy we got the usual lines; "life will be so different", "welcome to the world of monsters and trucks" and I thought no they can't be that different they are still both my children. I was wrong. Hudson was different from the start but now that he is two he is soo different, he is one of the boys.

I mean the other night he sanded a table that Chris and him were working on. Yes it was a power sander and yes my husband lets him operate power tools as long he is supervising. But then it started to rain and as Chris packed everything up. I could hear Hudson screaming, he was so devastated. That is until daddy gave him permission to go outside in the pouring rain to play in the mud.

Here is the table that they built together.

*I am painting it to match a pair of chairs we got, but you will hear more about that later.

During all this building Sailor was collecting wildflowers. She than used some masking tape so she could arrange some small bouquets for her dolls.


But nothing compares to last week when Hudson held us hostage outside for hours at a time to watch the house across the street get demolished by a back hoe. Sailor and I tried to be patient sitting with him reading together and otherwise keeping ourselves busy and he sat in amazement. It was like he was sitting in a movie theater watching the best movie he has ever seen.





All I could think about were the doors, windows, sinks, toilets and others items that were never taken out before the crushing began. We are lucky and have a Habitat for Humanity Re-Store just down the road. That entire house now lies in our local land fill. It would have been nice to know that at least some of it found it's way to someone. That a mom like me could have been looking out one of those windows watching her children play and that the money she paid for that donated window could have gone toward a home for someone who needs one.



I just wonder, I mean I have met the owners of that now gone home and they seem like nice people. Did they not know that was an option, did they not care, did they think it was just inconvenient, what??? An entire house now just rubble I just hope with all my heart that the small little cottage that sat on the big corner lot surrounded by grass and trees is not replaced by some giant home. That would make me sad beyond words.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

The Big Move

As many of you know we just moved to North Carolina from Texas. Moving is apart of our life, the hubby is in the Coast Guard, and to be honest we really enjoy it. I am sure to most people the idea of packing up and saying goodbye every 2-3 years would be too much. Don't get me wrong it is hard, especially this last move where we had to bid farewell to way to many amazing friends. But we have found their are many perks to always being on the move.

1) We tend not to accumulate to much "stuff", though books don't count. It is impossible to accumulate too many books.

2) We have seen places we would never have seen if we had just stayed put. I think I cried for hours when Chris told me we were transferring to Texas but I cried even more 2 years later when it was time to say goodbye to Texas.

3) The people. I am just so thankful for all our friends now spread across the US.

4) The chance of a new beginning. A new year resolution of sorts. The opportunity to leave things behind and begin afresh.

5) A sense of home within ourselves. We have really learned that home truly is where the heart is.


So here it is; our new home...





***On the map we are just south of Wilmington. The Cape Fear river is just down the street!