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Ian
Posted by nothingwitty in Grace in small things, Home, Life, life is good, Love on June 25, 2009
I miss my brother the most when I’m the happiest. The first time I ever held my daughter I was so overwhelmed with love for her, so happy and also missing him so much, because my daughter would never know him. He’s a name and a picture, nothing more to her. It seems a shame to me that Brian doesn’t get to know him either other than a name in stories. To them, he might as well be a fictional character.
I don’t much mind it, the missing him, it’s made me more appreciative of life and love. I would rather miss him every day of my life than forget about him, love is so worth it.
My brother would have been 28 today. I guess he is 28 anyway, even though he’s gone he still comes back and visits, I think just to check in on me. I think he’s proud of me. I know he’s happy for me.
Happy birthday brother. I love you.
Pictures of the flower girl
Posted by nothingwitty in Emma, Family, Grace in small things, Home, Life, life is good on May 29, 2009
She wanted a dress exactly like mine. She was appeased by one with a train, and the promise that she could wear mine in 25 years, when she got married, should she want to.
Petite thing is still wearing a size 4!
And this is the little girl who likes to catch tadpoles!
What is NOT to love about this dress?
This is probably my favorite part!
t- 15 hours or so
Posted by nothingwitty in Home, House!, life is good, Moving on May 21, 2009
Our title company won’t make an appointment to sign papers until they have the loan docs.
The loan company promised they’d be there by 5. OREGON TIME!
Bastards! Our title company closes at 4 Oregon time!
So our Realtor will call us first thing in the morning with the time to sign.
The other Realtor says as long as it’s signed, even if it doesn’t fund tomorrow, that we still get the keys.
WEEE!
Our Realtor kept apologizing but it’s not like it’s in his hands.
I told him to go home and have a beer. He deserves one.
The joys of buying a house
Posted by nothingwitty in Home, House!, Moving on May 13, 2009
So we found out Monday that to qualify for the special Idaho loan thing we were doing that we BOTH had to take a 4 day class-NEXT WEEK! Which would have put off closing for another week or two. Luckily they offer an online class- for 40 dollars more per person.
We bit the bullet (I did, anyway) and took the online class. It was actually informative, but a bit too late for us! I wrote down the answers to all the quizzes (which you could do multiple times until you got it right- I missed one once when I hit enter before I was ready:)) So last night, when Brian was turning in a final, Brian took the class. It took him about ten minutes,and guess what! He passed too! When he got home, I told him he’d passed and he was proud of himself. He’s such a good student, he doesn’t even have to be present for tests!
Still on track to close on the 22nd, unless they throw anything ELSE at us… 
When the cat’s away the mice will play
Posted by nothingwitty in Brian, Brian as Dad, Emma, Family, Home, Life on May 2, 2009
Brian’s off molesting fish- he’s been gone since Thursday. We signed the offer on the house (ACCEPTED!) and then he left. No celebrating for us. (I’m guessing he did an entire bottle’s worth of gin celebrating without me though!)
Every year on the first weekend of May, Brian and his dad and all of their friends go to Duck Valley Indian Reservation and fly fish for 4 days. Which totally means that Emma and I get to play too. Except that I’m at work and Emma’s with the EVIL ONE. Our other CPA’s husband got a job in ND and Thursday was her last day. We are not hiring anyone else to take her place (economy) and I am going to be even busier. I am not a CPA. There are things she could do that I can’t. It’s definitely going to be a time of readjustment….
Emma and I haven’t even stayed up late watching movies- I put her to bed at 8:30 both Thursday and Friday nights and laid down to snuggle her and fell asleep too. I guess we are well rested.
Brian left me the sweetest note on the computer:
I love you, will you marry me? Will you buy a house with me? Tell Emma I love her everyday, and tuck her in for me with an extra hug every night. I love you, Brian.
Brian asks me to marry him all the time and I always say yes. You’d think I’d get tired of the words but I don’t, it’s kind of like hearing “I love you”. I guess that’s really what he’s saying.
Emma misses him. She keeps asking if today is when he’s coming home. And then I remind her Sunday and she counts off the days. She was quite happy that tomorrow when she comes home he will be there.
I miss him too.
Goals
So the house we made the offer on? Its a short sale- they’ve sent our offer onto the bank. The bank can approve it or not and when (and if) they do the house is ours. We are on the hook for 90 days- because it can take a long time for the bank to approve it- but if they haven’t approved it in 90 days then we are free to make offers on other houses.
I hate games, and I hate waiting games in particular but we have nothing to loose… So there you go.
We are buying a house.
Once upon a time, when I was leaving and so sad and unsure, and didn’t know where Emma and I were going to live or where we were headed, I’d pick her up and dance to “Better Life” by Keith Urban. Because I only knew things were going to get better and where I was taking her was surely better than where we were or where we’d come from.
Well, I’ve decided that when we get the keys to our new house, whichever house it is, I’m getting Emma and taking her there and dancing in the living room to “our song”. Claiming this new life as ours!
Random Share
Posted by nothingwitty in Brian, Brian as Dad, Emma, Family, Home, Life, life is good, Love, Parenting on March 27, 2009
The number of times in a year we buy “cereal” (as in sugar coated unhealthy deliciousness in a box ) is equal to about 2. Actually, I think it’s probably less than that because we’ve lived together for almost 2 years and the first time I ever actually bought any was about a month ago.
We watched Diners, Drive ins and Dives and they made Captain Crunch French Toast and Brian wanted it and I was going to make it. Except we ate it all. Before I made any french toast!
So cue to a week later- we are buying rice, Emma and I, and the rice is in the same isle as the cereal and Emma starts saying that her Daddy needs Captain Crunch and is in fact going to die if we don’t take him some home like RIGHT NOW. Because HER DADDY NEEDS IT! She said it so sweetly and dramatically that I agreed with her. (How was I to argue with death?)
(There was a guy about my age in the isle who said “If I could be assured that my kid would be as cute as that I’d think about having one. Cause she is cute!” Emma is a charmer, that is for SURE!).
SO anyway, it is Spring Break at Boise State so Brian has had some free time on his hands this week and he noticed that GOSH, we are really running low on edible things (Its tax season, I haven’t done a shop in weeks) and he was hungry so he went to Fred Meyer and brought home some Cocoa Krispies. And then I had a tiny bowl after dinner! Mmm. Dessert!
This morning I called him for a chat around 10 and I said “I sure am craving some more of those Cocoa Krispies, will you bring me some please? “
And he totally did.
And I guess the whole point of this story is that if you are going to love someone and have them love you it is a really good thing if he does nice things for you like make the messy bed over the top of you when you are tired at night and bring you cocoa krispies on a Friday.
Hyperventilating
Posted by nothingwitty in Dreams, Family, Home, Life, life is good, Moving on March 25, 2009
We are putting an offer on a house tomorrow.
Please please put good thoughts out there in the universe!
Me? I’m going to start packing. Even if we DON’T get this house? We are going to get an equally AWESOME one.
Outtakes
Posted by nothingwitty in BOOM baby, Brian, Dreams, Family, Grace in small things, Home, Life, life is good, Love, Perfection on March 25, 2009
Brian is a fly fisherman. He’s kinda snobby about it (In a fun not serious-way he calls the other kind “worm dunkers”- but that doesn’t apply to ocean fishers????)
Anyway, we were freezing out asses off by the river having our engagement pics taken and he reaches down, pics up a rock and hands it to me.
He says “Under the rock you can see the little nests of the bugs my fish like to eat.”
But then of course, we had to pose with “the rock”
And once again I prove that I BLINK IN EVERY PHOTO.
He makes me laugh and he makes me smile.
I totally washed Brian’s cell phone last night.
Posted by nothingwitty in BOOM baby, Brian, Family, Home, life is good, Love on March 19, 2009
In the washing machine.
It was awesome.
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