Of course I know that there is nothing I can do to keep my sons from going through all these different life lessons. Actually, even if I could keep them from it, I wouldn’t. They need to go through these lessons to grow into strong adults. Knowing that, doesn’t make it any easier to see them disappointed and hurt.

The one thing that I keep in mind is that my mom went through the same thing with me (and my siblings) and talking with her, she feels it was well worth it.  So although it’s hard to watch my boys go through rough things, to learn how to deal with the unfair aspects of life, and to watch them grow through it all, I know in the end (when they are going through watching their children learn Life lessons), I’ll see how it was all worth it.  And get to tell them that they will make it through their children’s lessons as well.  And I’ll get to remind them of all the mistakes they made, to put it all into perspective for them.  hehehe, Yea, there’s nothing like the promise of rubbing things in to ease the troubled times.  LOL

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Atomic April’s Glam Salon

About:

Atomic April’s GLAM is the brainchild of April and James Long. April’s background in the beauty industry is both behind the chair and corporate career. Her long time career path has taken her on the route of distribution, product development , private business systems, along with career coaching and private international liason to many companies worldwide. James, with a background in Special FX MakeUp and the Arts. James is a Winner of the George Lucas Award for “Creatures and Models” exhibition, and with a professional career in Avaiation. The Long’s are one of the most powerful corporate couples in the Las Vegas area today.Their private holdings company is AtomicApril LLC, houses such companies as the famed “PopTinsel” “PlumHairia Hair Feathers” and “TweezHerz”.

 

My Experience:

It was the weekend before 4th of July.  I’ve been working myself up to getting my hair cut again.  It’d been another year since the last time I got it cut, and I was getting tired of the length and shape.  The last two salons I went to gave me such a bad taste that I started feeling the same way about Hair stylists as I do Dentists.  YIKES!  But really, I’d been spoiled in SoCal.  I had a friend who was going to beauty school and she knew my hair and could give me a great cut, style and color.  I loved her.  But then she moved away and I moved away, and I was left without someone good.

Knowing that I needed to find someone to do my hair and also knowing that they were going to have a hard time living up to my ideal, I was worried that I wouldn’t find someone who could make me feel good about my hair again.  I looked through the Yelp reviews and found a few with some great reviews, but most of them were either too expensive, too far away, or mainly worked with straight hair.  My hair is naturally curly, so it does take a lot more work.  Finally I decided to see what Groupon had, maybe there was a salon that had a good deal that I could use to find the right Stylist.  I know, maybe I was leaving it too much up to chance in finding someone, but I was willing to gamble for a good deal.  LOL!

Thank Goodness it worked out great!!  Atomic April’s GLAM Salon had a GREAT deal on Groupon!  They were giving you 5 different services out of several possible ones all for one low price.  You could choose highlights, lolights, or full head color; Hair cut or full makeup; a choice of 3 different types of scalp/hair conditioners; and hair feathers or tinsel.  I ended up getting a full head color, a cut, a dry hair conditioner, and neither tinsel or feathers.

The Stylist that did my hair was Tamarae.  She was a sweet young girl that reminded me of my best friend.  We talked a lot during my 3+ hours in the salon, which was really good.  The first thing she said to me was that my hair was very much like her mothers, so she knew how to work with curly hair.  And she was right too!  We first worked on the color of my hair.  We put together a mix of a nice bright red with a light brown color.  And it turned out beautiful!  I loved the color.  Then she started cutting my hair and then styled it.

I can tell you that for the first time in about 4 years I love my hair again!  It’s still long enough that I can pull it up into a ponytail, but short enough to be light for summer.  It looks good straight or curly.  To the point that today, for the first time since I don’t know when, I actually did NOT straighten my bangs!  I just brushed my hair and left the house feeling good about my hair!  WOW!  That is incredible!!

I can tell you, that I will definitely be back there to get my hair done again.  And not a year later either!  I’d like to keep my hair this length because it fits me perfectly.  So when it starts getting a little too long, say in two or so months, I’m going back there!!

I would totally recommend everyone to go to Atomic April’s GLAM Salon!  Whether you’re just visiting or if you live here in Las Vegas.  They are great!!

Rating by Wyndsong: 5.0 stars

Price:
$5 for Bangs – $200 for Perms

Services:
Cuts, Colors, perms, styling, facials, nails, makeup and various “Glam” stuff

Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday until 7pm.

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This is a picture of where we are living now.  Our house is on the left and my mom & sister are living in the house on the right.  This is a picture from Google Maps, so those are not our cars.  LOL!

So there have been a million changes in my life since the last time I blogged.  Most, if not all, for the better.

We’ve moved into a much bigger, nicer house where the boys both have their own rooms.

My mom and sister live in a smaller house next door to us.  Our business is growing and we now have an office just on the other side of the Strip.  And we have a new dog.  LOL!

The business has been keeping us really busy, which is why I just haven’t had much time for blogging.  I’d think about blogging and I’d be so busy at work, and then by the time I got home I just haven’t felt like being in front of the computer.  We’re still busy here at work, but I’ve decided I want to get back to blogging.  So this is my re-emergence into the blogosphere!  LOL!

I figure I’m not going to try to make money off of this blog now.  It’s too much work for me to do that.  I couldn’t keep up with all the reviews that were needed and trying to find ways to make money with the blog were just too much with everything else on my plate.  I guess I kinda lost focus for a while on why I was doing this blog and now I think I found it again.

There will be some changes to the blog in the next few weeks.  I’m planning on changing the look and feel as well as my focus.  So bare with me while I get the dust settled and work it all out.

And if it gets a little hot… well we’ve got a pool at our new house, so if you don’t see me here, that’s probably where I will be!  Jump on in, the water’s great!

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Is this really what we’ve come to?  Just about!  Today the AAP came out with their new and improved car seat guidelines.  Now, they are telling us that we have to keep our kids in a REAR facing car seat until they are 2 years old.  And your child must be in a car seat or booster seat until they are 100 lbs or 12 years old.  And no one under the age of 13 should be in the front seat.  Ummm.. yeah, that’s all going to go over REALLY well with Junior High school kids!

Luckily, my boys are well past all this crap.  I can just imagine all the tickets I would have gotten if I had to do any of this bullshit!  At the time of my boys being in car seats they had just started all of this fear mongering and I just ignored them at the time.  I had my boys in a front facing car seat as soon as I could.  Usually as soon as they were sitting up on their own and holding their heads up by themselves.  Both boys were in “regular” car seats before they were 9 months old.  And they were out of a “car seat” by the time they were 3.  And they stopped using a booster seat by the time they were 5.

OH MY GOD!!!  Someone call the police!!!  My kids weren’t bubble wrapped till they were 26!!!

I just can’t imagine these stupid guidelines when I was a kid.  I didn’t weight more than 100 lbs until I was almost 20!  And I’m still barely taller than the recommended hieght for kids to be out of car seats!  Am I supposed to buy myself a booster seat to drive?  My oldest sons girlfriend probably is supposed to be in a booster seat, because she’s barely 5′ tall and I”m sure she doesn’t weight 70 lbs!  LOL!  She’s 16, and I’m sure she’d just LOVE that!  hahahah  And if my son was driving now, he’d have to make sure he had a booster seat for her in his car.  Yea, that would go over REALLY well!

But that’s the kind of stupidity that’s going on in our society today.  They come out with these assinine statistics that sound really scary, and like all loving parents, they make you feel like you’re a horrible person if you don’t bubble wrap your kids!  Well, I’m sorry to put this bluntly, but 1000 kids killed or injured over 15 years, in ALL of America is barely a drop in the bucket!  It’s a million to one chance of your child getting hurt because you were in a car accident and your child was in a front facing car seat.  No it’s not impossible, but it’s so unlikely, that it’s not really something to worry about!  A front facing car seat is safe!  MORE than safe enough!!

But why should I be surprised by this ridiculous fear mongering, after all it’s the same people who are recommending this car seat rule that also say that you shouldn’t sleep with your baby in bed with you.  Not because it’s really unsafe, but because 6 babies a year die in an adult bed.    Or the recall of some baby slings because 14 babies in 20 years died in them… of course none of these ‘statistics” talk about the other circumstances of the deaths.  Where were the parents?  I know that’s not a very popular question when kids die, but it does have bearing on the situations.  What were the parents doing??  Was the mother of the baby who died in a sling paying attention to her baby?  Or did she put the baby in the sling and think that her job was finished?  Were the parents of the babies who died in an adult bed using drugs or alcohol at the time?  Did they have too many pillows and blankets on the bed and forget to check on the baby?  I know it’s not a very popular view point to say that the parents hold some responsibility in a child’s death or injury, but it is still a fact that they are responsible!

So then my question is, what were the circumstances of these 1000 children who were killed or injured in a front facing car seat?  Were they buckled in properly?  Were they in the seat properly?  Did they actually fit in the seat?  What kind of accident was it?  What car were they in?  There are so many variances to every accident, to say that a rear facing car seat would save all these kids lives is really over simplifying things.

One of the biggest arguments I see for these new stupid guidelines are people saying that they’ve seen too many horrible deaths of children and if anyone against these guidelines saw these injuries they’d be fore them.  Well, I’m sorry, but no matter what you do, no matter how much bubble wrap you wrap your kids in, and no matter how long they stay in rear facing car seats, there are going to be kids who are killed and injured in car accidents.  The only way to keep that from happening is to get rid of all cars (even the smart ones that greenies love so much would have to be gone too).  But there would still be beds, and cribs, and sidewalks, and skateboards and pianos falling from the sky… so you’d get rid of just one of a million things that are out there that will kill or injure your child, but there’d still be a million more dangerous things.

So what is a parent supposed to do??  Keep them bubble wrapped till they are 26, locked in bubble wrapped room, that is completely self sustaining, where no germs could get in… in an underground bunker where even a plane falling on it won’t destroy it.  Then once they are 26 and you can’t keep them on your Obamacare insurance any more, they have to go out into the world and figure out how to keep themselves safe, cuz mommy and daddy are dead from stress and worry!

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Enjoy!

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Speaking of honest reviews….. Here’s one I have for you!  I was recently accepted as a Purex Insider, which means I get some samples of Purex Complete’s new products in exchange for an honest review of said product.  I generally like the products that Purex makes so I was pleased to find out that I was now a Purex insider!  I am always on the lookout for new cleaning products to use, especially ones that are healthier for people and the environment.  That’s why I was very interested in learning more about the Purex Complete Crystals Softener.

Firstly, let me explain that I can NOT use Downey or Snuggle as softeners.  No matter what their scent I am allergic to those softeners.  So I was a little concerned about being allergic to the Crystals softener as well, but some of the information that I received as a Purex Insider calmed some of my worries.  Mostly that it is 92% Natural and doesn’t leave an oily residue on clothes or in the washer.  Instead, the Purex Complete Crystals Softeners “Penetrate fabrics to reduce fiber entanglement and smooth frayed fibers providing a naturally soft feel”.

From the Purex Complete Crystals Softener Fact Sheet

Why It’s Different > Safe for all laundry and better for fabrics

Do ALL of your laundry — worry free!  Purex Complete Crystals Softeners are safe for all laundry and will not harm, wear down or discolor your fabrics like oil-based softeners.  Safe for all fabrics, including baby clothes, athletic wear, towels, and whites.  Unlike other softeners, Crystals will:

• Preserve the flame retardant benegits of your children’s clothes
• Retain you athletic wear’s wicking ability which draws sweat away from you body
• Maintain you towel’s built-in ability to absorb water
• Keep you white clothing from yellowing and graying vs. using traditional softeners

The Product won’t harm your clothes and is safe and convenient for the entire family!

The Purex Complete Crystals Softeners come in three scents; Fresh Spring Waters, Lavender Blossom, and Tropical Splash.  The only thing missing is “Unscented”, which I am hoping they will include in their family of Crystals soon, as many of the insiders are requesting this.  The biggest plus in the scents is that they are long lasting and your laundry will smell nice for weeks.  The down side of the scents is that if you don’t like the scent or are allergic to it, the scent will last for weeks.  That’s why I am hoping they will get an unscented Crystal soon!

The Scent that I received was the Fresh Spring Waters.  Although I was not allergic to the scent it was extremely strong when I used it in the laundry.  I may have used too much though.   It was a very nice pleasant scent, if it hadn’t been so strong though.  The instructions on the bottle are not very clear as to how much you should use.  There are lines on the side of the bottle with the word “Load” next to each line.  I thought that this meant I was supposed to use that much of the crystals per load.  The amount was about a handful, roughly a half cup.  While the laundry was in the washer and the dryer the scent was overwhelming!  If it hadn’t been so strong it would have been a nice smell though.  I’m glad I wasn’t allergic to it or else I would have been in trouble.  However, once the towels were out of the dryer and folded nicely, they not only felt really nice and soft but also had a soft pleasant scent.  The scent faded to a tolerable amount instead of overwhemling my senses!

I think next time I use it I’ll use about a third of what I used the first time.  The towels did turn out nice and soft and didn’t not have a slick feeling to them.  I noticed how most towels that have been washed with a softener added come out feeling like they don’t quite absorb the water after a shower.  With the crystals the towels did not feel that way at all!  I was pleasantly surprised by this.

I think overall I like the Crystals, but would be happier with an unscented version of them.  That way there isn’t the overwhelming scent in the laundry room that makes everyone run away… It’s hard enough to get anyone else to do the laundry without giving them a good excuse like the scent is too strong for them to go near it!  LOL!

I think if you like Downey or  Snuggle, but hate the oily feeling they leave on your laundry, then you will love these Purex Complete Crystals Softeners!  They have three nice scents to choose from, and hopefully will add an unscented soon!  Definitely healthier for you and your family, more natural, and even easier to use!  You don’t have to wait for the softening cycle to use the Crystals, just add them directly into your wash!  I loved that, cuz I am just not the “wait for the right cycle” kinda laundry doer!  LOL!

If you’d like to try Purex Complete Crystals Softeners out, click on picture above and you can get a $1 off coupon!

Disclaimer:  I am a Purex Insider.  I received product from Purex for review purposes only, all opinions are 100% my own!

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I love blogging… really I love writing.  I always have.  I wanted to be a journalist for a short time, until I realized that it was almost as difficult to get published as it was to get into the movies.  That’s when I decided that I’d just write for fun.  When I realized that I could publish my own works on my own website, it was fantastic!  But few, if anyone, ever saw my websites.  That is until I learned to blog and how to get my blog seen online.

Now, my words are seen by what I feel like is a lot of people.  Currently I’m getting about 50 unique visitors a day.  Which more me is astounding!  LOL!.  Of course it’s not the same numbers as some of the more “well known” and “celebrity” bloggers, but it’s still a lot to me.  It’s a wonderful feeling to know that my words are being read by more than just a handful of my family and friends and it means a lot to me.

One of the ways that I’ve gotten my blog to be seen by people is doing product reviews and giveaways on my blog.  Trust me, there’s nothing that brings in traffic like a nice giveaway!  Of course, it’s what may have brought people to my blog, but I don’t think anyone would come back if I didn’t have something more to offer them.  but the point is to get as many people to my blog as I can, so that they can see what else there is here for them.

This brings us to the whole point of this post, which is compensation for blog posts.   There’s a huge controversy about bloggers being paid for posts.  I have read many, many, MANY articles on the subject over the last few years.  My opinion has changed over the few years I’ve been blogging too, which is part of why it’s taken me so long to write my own article on this subject.  Until now, I haven’t really fully formulated exactly how I felt.  I’ve also become a little more experienced in the review and PR world of blogging too, so that has made a huge difference in how I feel now as opposed to when I first started.

When I first started blogging, and had a very small (less than 10 visits a day) amount of traffic, I felt like it was a privelage to recieve cool things for free to blog about.  I was looking for ways to not only get my blog looked at, but to give it good content.  I was also not as busy as I am now with my “real” job, so I had  a lot of time on my hands to “play around” with my blog.  And because I had very little traffic, trying to find someone willing to give me product to review was very difficult.  Never mind trying to find other content to blog about!

That’s when I went about trying to find networks that gave newbie bloggers connections to products and brands.  I looked at a lot of the “pay per post” type of sites as well.  Few if any of the posts that were relevant to my blog content wanted to pay me to post about their products because I didn’t have the traffic.  And I still don’t have the traffic that some of the bigger brands want to pay for content.  Which is ok with me because I don’t have the time to do that much work!

But that’s where I was when I read articles about mommy bloggers ruining it for other bloggers because they weren’t asking for money for content and advertising.  My opinion was that of course these other, more well known bloggers can charge for blogging.  They have readers, they have traffic, they have the numbers to justify charging.  However, bloggers like me, with little to no traffic can’t charge because we don’t have the numbers to justify it.  If we tried to charge for our blog posts and giveaways, we’d never get anyone to use our blogs for their outreach programs!

It actually upset me that these high and mighty bloggers would tell the rest of us to stop doing things for free because it was causing them harm.  That’s fine for them, they’ve already “made it”, but us little guys were still struggling to get into the blogging world.  We had to make some sacrifices to get our blogs seen, to get the traffic and THEN we could start charging.

Well, now, my opinion has changed a little.  I still think there is something to the “paying your dues” sort of idea behind receiving compensation for blogging in something other than cash.  Plus things like product reviews should never be paid for because that automatically creates a bias towards the product.  So that keeps the review from being honest and useful.  But posts that are purely advertising for a brand or product, those posts should be paid.

Here’s the reason why there is a difference.  When you are doing a review, yes you get free product, but because how else are you going to try something that is new.  I may do reviews on items that I’ve purchased, but I don’t buy everything under the sun.  So for a company to get bloggers to talk about their product, they need to send it out to people.  They however can NOT expect that all reviews will be positive.  Not everyone is going to like the product, even if they recieve it for free!  Believe me, I LOVE free stuff… but just because it’s free, doesn’t make it great.  If I don’t like something, I”m going to talk about it and why I don’t like it.  Now, I try to be constructive in my criticsm, and try to point out that some of my opinions are just that… MY opinions, and not everyone will feel the same way.  But I’m not going to change my opinion of a product just because I got it for free.  I will also RAVE about products that I’ve purchased, and spent pretty good money on as well!  For instance, my HTC EVO… I spent a good amount of money on that phone, and nearly a year later I still LOVE IT!!!  So free or expensive, all reviews will get the same treatment from me and should from any blogger.  If you can’t trust a review to be honest, then all the review is, is another advertisement.  And really who needs MORE commercials!?!

Giveaways and other content posts are a completely different beast from reviews.  I’ve done giveaways of several different types and they are a LOT of work!  They are worth the work, at least for the blogger they are.  That’s a great way to boost your traffic!  But it’s a LOT of work!  Even for a small blog like mine it’s a lot.  Most of the giveaways I”ve done have been for free for the product providers.  I have begun to rethink that position, which is why I haven’t done another giveaway in a while.  They take a lot of time to run, even for one that only lasts for a few days or a week!  You have to sort through your entries, make sure they are all legit, follow all the rules, advertise them on the right sites/blogs, and then make sure your winner receives the prize in a timely manner.  Sounds easier than it is.  And if you want to run a LARGE giveaway (like what 5 minutes for Mom does once a year, they are nutz!), then it’s even more work!  Don’t look to this site for any of the BIG contests with multiple prizes… I just don’t have the time to devote to something like that!  Yikes!

I did the giveaways for free for two reasons though.  One, I was getting a LOT Of good traffic that seemed to stick around after the contest was over.  However, I didn’t see much of an increase in traffic for the prize providers.  I did a few giveaways for a friends business, and they didn’t see much of a boost in sales after the contests were over.  Which is really too bad because I got a lot out of it.  and Two, because I generally also got a free product to review for the contest as well, which not only gave me the post for the contest, but a second post for the review.  so really I was getting a lot more out of it, than I thought I was putting into it…. at least that’s what I thought until I realized how many hours I actually put into running the contest.  Then I realized I didn’t get enough.

The same goes for other paid content posts.  AT the sites like Izea’s Social Spark or Paid Per Post, you’ll find things to post about and maybe you’ll get paid $5 or $10 depending on your page rank and traffic count.   But when you’re not a “popular” or well known site you don’t get many of those paid posts, and the ones you do get offered are so irrelevant to your blog that there’s no way you could work them into a post for your readers without sounding like a commercial…. and a bad one at that!

There was one paid post I was offered for online gambiling site for my book review site.  It’s a BOOK review site… BOOKS… now, I can see where “Bookie” and “Book” may seem similar, but COME ON!?!  Really??  Obviously I turned that post down… but it’s not the only time I’ve been offered strange paid posts that wouldn’t make any sense to my blog.  To the point that I have stopped going to those sites to see if I’d qualify for any good paid jobs.  If I can’t qualify or apply quickly enough to get the good “gigs” then why bother?

Then there are the PR people who send pitches to bloggers.  I don’t know HOW I got on this one PR companies pitch list, but I have not replied to a single one of their pitches since their first email.  They sent me a pitch saying that they thought my readers would be REALLY interested in this great new movie coming out and would I like to partner with them and introduce my readers to the movie with some great graphics, some cool downloads and a neat widget to put on my blog.  I looked up the movie and the PR firm, and agreed that my readers would be interested in the movie.  However I didn’t see in their email what or how I would be compensated for telling my readers about this great movie.  Their response was quick and to the point, and after doing some research not at all uncommon from PR firms to bloggers.  They said they didn’t have the budget to compensate the bloggers they would be working with, but the hi-res graphics and cool widget were really great!  I then replied asking about at least getting a copy of the movie so I could tell my viewers honestly what I thought about the movie, and their response to that was, that they did not have any advanced copies to send out to bloggers either.

Wow!!  Really?  You expect me to give you prime real estate on my blog, a full post, a widget taking up space on my sidebar, and I don’t even get to see the movie first?!?!  What am I supposed to tell my readers?  “Here’s a movie that I’m told by their advertising agency that it’s really good and you all should go see it because I will be whenever it comes out”???  Ummm.. no.. see above where I talk about honest product reviews!  That whole email exchange kinda pissed me off.  I know I’m not some big shot blogger, and I don’t pretend to be, but I do take pride in what I write.

This blog is all about me, my feelings on everything from family matters and politics, to products… but all of it is still my feelings.  If you want me to advertise for you on my blog, then fine, I don’t mind giving up some of my space to talk about something, but I’m not going to do it for free, without SOME sort of first hand knowledge of the product in question!  That’s just nuts.

Of course, no matter what business you’re in you’re going to find people who want the world for nothing.  Even in my “day job” I get this sort of attitude.  In my business our service fees are right in the middle of all the other businesses like ours.  I get customers that just love us and think our full price is a STEAL!  Then there are other customers who think that we’re cheating them some how even though we’re giving them our best price.  It always brings to mind the saying “you can please some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”

It really comes down to this… how much is your time worth?  How much is your blog and traffic worth?  No one is going to come up with the same answer, but I can tell you, your time, your blog, and your traffic, no matter how small, is not worth nothing!  It is worth something, or else the PR firms would not have a job just to work with bloggers.  There’s a reason they come to bloggers for “outreach” programs.  But only YOU can decide how much YOU are worth.  Of course it’s the PR firm’s job to negotiate from nothing up… and your job to negotiate from the stars down. 

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Today I am thankful for our new house.  It is simply perfect for us.  The boys will have their own rooms, there’s a basement with plenty of room for a poker table.  I have a huge kitchen, with all new(er) appliances.  There’s a dog run, a laundry room, and a nice large pool.  The only thing that could make this place even better is to be near my mom & sister….. well, how’s next door?

Yes, they are going to be living right next door to us!  When I first started talking about moving in with Steve, my mom always said “Maybe we can find two houses next door to each other”.  It was always a nice thought, but never did we really believe we’d be able to find that.  Especially not two houses that fit our needs so perfectly, and more!  And yet that is exactly what the Universe did for us.

The house on the left is our house.  2 bedrooms in the basement, with a large room separating them that we’ll use as a “rec” or “theater” room.  We’ll have a wall mounted TV in there, with a couch (if it’ll fit down the stairway), the various game consoles we have, and a poker table.  Roger’s room will be in one of the rooms in the basement as well.  there are two separate rooms in there, but only one of them is really big enough for a bedroom.  The other one will be storage/library (YES!  I get a LIBRARY!!!).

Upstairs, on the “main” floor, is our extra large kitchen, that 3 or more cooks can be working in there comfortably without stepping on each other, our living room (with a fireplace), Jack’s room, and the master suite.  There’s also a “service porch” where the laundry and our freezer is.  Every bedroom has nice large closets with built in shelves.  The two bathrooms are upstairs as well.  Between the garage and the house is a fully enclosed porch, that is probably bigger than the livingroom.  It’s enclosed with lattice work for the ceiling, so not really usable on rainy days, but every other time will be great for party run off!  LOL!

Out back is our pool, patio, and RV parking area.  This is a beautiful pool that has shallow ends on both sides and a deep end in the middle.  There is also a fountain feature in the far back corner of the pool… makes it look very elegant for sure.  Plenty of room on the patio for a lot of people to sit and talk, eat burgers fresh from our grill and watch the kids play in the pool.  This will defintely be great for summer teen events!

And then right next door is where my mom and sister will be living.  They get a 2 bedroom one bath house, with all hardwood floors, a nice sized kitchen and a laundry room.  Their backyard is actually bigger than ours, but it’s all grass.  Although there is a swinset in their backyard as well.  They also have a workshop in their back yard that even has lots of storage and room for wood working, painting or any other type of arts and crafts that might come up.  They too have a nice patio in the back with a nice awning which will make the spring, summer & fall very nice.

I cannot tell you how amazingly happy I am that these houses were for rent.  It’s been a little bit tight and a big old stress bubble trying to get everything packed and ready to move.  We’re also moving our home office into a regular office about 3 miles from the new houses.  So for the next 3 weekends we’ll be moving something!  LOL!  This is going to be a crazy three weeks, but after it’s all done, we’re going to be so happy!  I just can’t wait for it to be all overwith!  LOL!

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