Happy here.

That about sums up where I'm at these days.  I never thought I'd be where I am, I don't know exactly where we're heading now, but I love my life!

So, I had this wonderful plan to post a wonderful blogpost full of pictures while Shea napped.  About 2/3 of my plan will work out.  Shea is napping.  And I am posting what will naturally be a wonderful post. ;P (right...).  But the cord for my camera is somewhere in storage at the moment, so I can't post the pictures until the next time we take a trip over there.  :(  oh well.

I have finally felt like I've done something with my time today!  Jeremy's parents have been out of town since Tuesday, which has been nice.  Its nice to get a break and settle in a little bit.  I've been doing a lot of cleaning!  Partly because I have a child who likes to make a lot of messes, and also because I want to make sure we're doing more than our part, considering we're living basically rent free.

Today, I:

- Got out of bed at 7AM and actually took a shower before 11AM. haha.+

- Made breakfast for Shea, a coffee for Jeremy, and ate some granola myself.  This is pretty good for me these days.  I also cleaned the dishes from the morning while Shea played.  I got him dressed by 8.  Another big accomplishment.

- Jeremy is gone for most of the day, so I took a trip to Silverdale with Shea to go to Target.  For some odd reason Jeremy's parents don't have dishrags, so I bought a pack of those.  I also bought a magic eraser and a new shower curtain liner (theirs was beyond disgusting.  I couldn't handle it.)  We also stopped at Wal-Mart on the way home (mainly because I wanted to get a starbucks frappe - there, I confessed) and bought a lighter for the candle for our room and I got a new purse for only $7.50!  Normally I don't like the wal-mart purses at all, but my white one is so dirty and falling apart, so I bought a new tan one.  I love it.  It's simple, the perfect size, and it was CHEAP.  I took a picture of it, but like I said, I can't get it off my camera.

-When we got home, Shea played outside while I ran a load of laundry, scrubbed down the tub/shower and changed the curtain, washed the floors, vacuumed, and started lunch.  I even started a huge pot of chilli for dinner for tonight and tomorrow night, because I have to work and Jeremy will be on his own.  And I baked the rest of my new cookie recipe.  They're like...chocolate peanut butter shortbread cookies.  Maybe that's what I'll call them.  They are delicious mounds of yumminess.  I'll post the recipe sometime.  I like them a lot.

Nothing else is too new.  We have been looking around casually for places, but there isn't much available to rent in our price range, and we don't really want to spend all of our money on a damage deposit right now anyway.  We have started looking into some houses to buy in the area, because we are figuring we'd rather save up money for a few months while living here so we can buy something we like rather than pay too much rent for a place we don't really want to be.  We drove through a nearby neighborhood with a ton of young families in it with some nice, yet inexpensive houses.  We'll see if anything comes of that.  Of course, it would require Jeremy getting a job, but its exciting to think about it actually owning our own place and settling at least for a few years.

Well, off to do my last big project of the day - cleaning our the refrigerator and finding a place to put our food so we can get the boxes out of here!