HEY WHAT YA DOIN

As for me and mine, we are very, very busy. I am doing better in terms of posting, if you are noticing. It has only been three months minus two days since my last post. Truth is I'm tired. I feel like I'm on a merry-go-round that never stops. Have you ever felt that way?

There is a new great-grandbaby in the family a little girl named Khloe Grace born December 20, 2011. I suppose that is the biggest best news I have.

I have completed four seasons, one entire year, out in the country where the kudzu grows. The drive to work has been the worst and best of the experience. Every season has its own beauty and I have been blessed beyond measure to enjoy each one. Do I now love the drive? NO but I can tolerate it. Fortunately, I will not be tolerating it for too much longer. DH & I are moving back to the house we sold to our youngest daughter & her husband last year. They discovered that in this down economy they can finance a much higher dollar house than mine. Suddenly mine became undesirable. Lickly split, they found another house closer to their work and will be closing on it the end of this month. There is more to the story than that but I look at it as God restoring what I should not have gotten rid of in the first place. Nothing was in writing so there isn't a lot I could do to hold them to a verbal agreement anyway. Now they are dealing with realtors, mortgage brokers, etc. All I can say is welcome to the real world. Seems that when they went to get a mortgage on my house they were told that their credit score was great, they did qualify for more than the sale price of the house; however, my house would not now appraise for the asking price. I have an appraisal from two years ago but now we are told my house would appraise for 25k to 30k less. Probably would not appraise for what I paid for it six years ago.
Oh well, I'm blessed to be employed and able to make the payments so life goes on. My DH has learned a lot from the experience that I already knew such as don't do business with family or friends.

The stress over the house situation really sucked the joy out of the holidays, since it all started around Thanksgiving. The girls couldn't agree on when to get together so we didn't celebrate Christmas as a family until January 7th. I had taken a month off which was really a big mistake except that I learned that I may never retire. I need the social aspect of my work environment so I went back to work early. True but not because Iwas bore or unhappy which I was but because I may need to take some time off moving the first week of February.

On to other things. HEY if you are receiving a Social Security check, congrats on that 3% raise. Sorry, Medicare premiums went up. My DH was not impress with the raise until I informed him that it would pay for almost a tank of gas.

Now you are all caught up with my world. I'll be coming to visit you soon, I hope. I've been lurking but not commenting. Sorry. OH one more thing before I go. One of the two graduating grandsons made 30 on the ACT exam and qualified for a full tuition scholarship to the University of Alabama. YES, I'm bragging, but is it bragging when it is true?