Me, Myself and Mommy

The Move – Part 3: Leases and Boxes and Hormones! Oh My!

Renee — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:05:18 +0000

My anxiety attack at the top of the world had come and gone, and life carried on at a normal clip for a few months. We were crazy busy at work, Steve was traveling around the country and Moanna was living her merry-little-life as always. Other than a few comments of, "Well, when we move to Altanta we'll do this/that/the other," moving wasn't on our minds much. We still had to survive our life in Virginia for awhile. After Moanna's birthday in June, Virginia life slowed down a bit and it was time to refocus on "The Move." Almost every night we stayed up late staring at houses on the internet that our realtor sent us. We looked at the pictures, the specs, the maps, the satellite view, the birds-eye view, how far it was from the grocery store, and so on. This is not an exaggeration folks, we looked at easily a thousand plus houses. Our eyes were bloodshot every night when we finally gave up after midnight.

Half Down, Half To Go

Renee — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:08:56 +0000

In a lot of your eyes, this will seem like a financial NO-NO, capital NO, capital NO. You may very well be right, especially if you are from the school of thought that you should never ever for no reason what-so-ever touch your retirement or any form of savings for that matter. However, I did. I committed retirement sin.

Happy Labor Day

Renee — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:33:17 +0000

Labor Day used to be a depressing day for me. It marks the unofficial end to summer, and that makes me very blue. I don't do winter gracefully. Today, however, I've come to appreciate Labor Day in a new way.

What’s for Dinner?

Renee — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:39:43 +0000

Is that not one of the most common questions you hear as a Mom or Dad? The most common question of course is "Why?" Children and spouses are hunger driven, and they want to know who, what, when and where there dinner is. I get this question from Steve before he even leaves the house for the day. Moanna, not so much. She is more of the mind set of, "I want BLANK for dinner." Sorry child, that's not happening. Once I deny her order off the menu, she is then interested in what's for dinner because starvation is not an option. When we lived in Buena Vista, this question stressed me out to no end. If I happened to be at home, and HAD to make dinner I would open the fridge and blink at the lack of food. Then I would open the freezer and do the same. After there was little to be found in the fridge or freezer, I would shuffle over to the pantry and sit in the floor and thumb through the mismatched ingredients. After realizing I was sca-rewed, I would attempt to throw something together with the few things that were on hand. Bun free burgers with rice, frozen corn and old Halloween candy anyone? Gross, right?

Haïti Aide – Angel Wings International: Virtual Fundraiser

Renee — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:01:47 +0000

We are closely involved with a nonprofit organization called Angel Wings International. AWI was organized in 2007 when Myrlande Affriany led a group of medical volunteers to Jacmel, Haiti (about 25 miles south of Port Au Prince). Since that maiden voyage in 2007, AWI has returned to Haiti on a regular basis to provide medical care and humanitarian aid to the people of Haiti. After the earthquake in Haiti, AWI increased its activity, bringing dozens of medical professionals and volunteers to Haiti on multiple occasions. To support the dream of AWI, Me Myself and Mommy is holding a virtual fundraiser (at least that’s what we’ll call it). At the end of September we will be making a donation to AWI. How large of a donation? Well that depends on you. The more followers, likes and subscribers Me, Myself and Mommy gains over the next 15 days the larger the donation will be.