Robin's Nest

It is Sunday! Almost the last day of the month and the first day of my plan to try and change our lifestyle and attack our debts with a new vengeance.  Especially since I realized this morning when I went to make my Amazon payment I was 5 days late!  So I decided pay the entire balance off while I still have my vacation pay from my previous employer.  Thus the same theory applied to my Walmart card and it will also apply to my visa that I bought my iPad on. The phones and the utility bills are all current and now I need to apply the snowball approach to our AAFES credit cards.  Those of you who don't know, when you join Uncle Sam's forces he will extend you credit to buy things you can't afford and for those who feel guilty they will re-up so they have a steady income to buy more stuff at the Bx/Px.  This little soldier loved shopping at the Exchange and online!! H ere's an update from this week, DH had his surgery on Wednesday and things went as well as the...

Here it is the last full week of July about to start and the kids are really getting into the pool a lot!  The oldest of the young ones has taught herself to swim and can swim under the surface the complete width of the pool!  The youngest still requires a life jacket no matter what as far as I am concerned.  But she also is jumping in with the rest of them.. no fear here! Of course it is not all the way full, but that has helped the two littlest ones adjust. I continue to think of ways to make extra money and someday be home with the girls full time because I can be. And as many people have said getting my own website will be essential eventually.  This week my DH has to have surgery on his back, that will set construction behind about ten weeks.  We were hoping to have the pool house covered and the roofs repaired and the downstairs furnace ready for winter.  We also had redoing the henhouse on the list but that may be next spring with the gr...

July is here and I am so far behind on everything and anything I have started in the last six months it is mind boggling!  Our schedules have changed to 12 hour shifts and it seems to have made a big difference for most of the staff in a positive way. I still need to catch up tons of paperwork on my workdays and as soon as I recover from all the excitement that took place during the changeover I will attack the pile of stuff. At least the company didn't come in and clean house!  A few people did not continue on with the new system for various and unknown reasons. This has been upsetting for some of the residents and actually some of the staff too.  There are plenty of familiar faces though and that does help the transition. Before the new company actually took over most of us were contemplating our fate.  Not necessarily in a negative way, just in a "taking inventory" way.  Myself, I looked into different options in the Nursing field, but I also bega...