So they were suppose to be out today...they weren't. It was really a let down. They said maybe Monday or Tuesday night. It really was an incredible disappointment.
I really wanted to get in, clean, figure things out! Ok...we are playing the waiting game again.
Until later...
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Anticipation!!
It's like waiting for Christmas day to happen! We are all super excited for the move into our new RV! We just hope they get out early Sunday morning versus late Sunday night!
We have plans to rip out the carpet and put laminate snap together hardwood flooring. Where we are staying the owner offered to give us what she had, that was very sweet of her! We also plan on taking out the queen bed and replacing it with a daybed and trundle and adding a folding table that is attached to the wall in there.
In the dining room/living room area, we are planning on taking the table and bench chairs out and replacing it with a long desk for two (our work spaces).The couch sofa sleeper will be taken out and replaced with a new one.
I also want to take out the commode and replace it with a real one!
There is lots of cleaning, organizing, etc. to be had!
Until later...
We have plans to rip out the carpet and put laminate snap together hardwood flooring. Where we are staying the owner offered to give us what she had, that was very sweet of her! We also plan on taking out the queen bed and replacing it with a daybed and trundle and adding a folding table that is attached to the wall in there.
In the dining room/living room area, we are planning on taking the table and bench chairs out and replacing it with a long desk for two (our work spaces).The couch sofa sleeper will be taken out and replaced with a new one.
I also want to take out the commode and replace it with a real one!
There is lots of cleaning, organizing, etc. to be had!
Until later...
Friday, March 22, 2013
Pics of the new rig!
Here is the new rig!
That is not our stuff. She is taking it with her. It has a new awning (6 months old too). I can't wait for Sunday!!!
Death...it is a game changer!
A few people I know have said how proud they are of us just taking this chance and doing what we felt was best. I have to say death changes a person...I have been more willing now than ever since my daddy died to go against the grain, live off the grid and take risks! Like I said, it isn't easy we have had meltdowns, tantrums, "I'm bored!!", "MOM I saw a baby LONGHORN!" to "MOM!" (panting) "There is a coyote near the dumpster! It can't be a dog, the teeth were to sharp!" HAHA, it has definitely been an adventure. I look forward to many more adventures!
I miss my family and friends, and at first I was very upset about leaving all I knew, my possessions that couldn't fit, etc. All that being said, I look back now and I don't regret one moment! I know my kids are on an adventure of a lifetime! With the RV about to be in our possession we will finally be able to get out and explore more of the places the fur-babies can't go (museums, restaurants, etc.)!
Until later...
I miss my family and friends, and at first I was very upset about leaving all I knew, my possessions that couldn't fit, etc. All that being said, I look back now and I don't regret one moment! I know my kids are on an adventure of a lifetime! With the RV about to be in our possession we will finally be able to get out and explore more of the places the fur-babies can't go (museums, restaurants, etc.)!
Until later...
Thursday, March 21, 2013
WE did it!
We did it! We bought an RV! We can't move it but we did it! We hopefully gain possession on Sunday! The lady woke up at 2am this morning to find it SOOO cold and was worried and told her husband we had to have it. It was cold but we were warm!
It is called a Prowler, it is 33' in length and has two slides. I have already started to figure out how to make it work for our needs until we upgrade. I have already been told how incredibly lucky I was to get it for the price we did and that we could turn around and sell it for triple what we paid. While that is cool, we will just wait for a while!
The back bedroom I am thinking of ripping out the bed and putting in a pallet bed that has a trundle under it. That way it is a couch and at night it is two beds for the boys. It will also give them space to play when in couch mode. I also want to install a table that only has two legs and is mounted to the wall. This will give them space to do art, letters to friends, etc.
Where the living room and dining room are, I was thinking take out the couch and put a new one in, for us to sleep on and where the dining table is rip it out and put a desk for two so we can do our work there. We can buy folding TV trays to eat off of which would suit our new needs just fine (remember we have been tent living).
(break from posting to go potty...outside in the bathroom facility)
PANIC mode! I can't get out the damn tent, and I have to PEEE! OMG! Hubby is in the place I need to go so here I am whisper yelling "HONEY"!! Why? The boys broke the zipper doors to the tent! BOTH of them!
Ah here comes my knight in shinning armor in the night!
Until later...
It is called a Prowler, it is 33' in length and has two slides. I have already started to figure out how to make it work for our needs until we upgrade. I have already been told how incredibly lucky I was to get it for the price we did and that we could turn around and sell it for triple what we paid. While that is cool, we will just wait for a while!
The back bedroom I am thinking of ripping out the bed and putting in a pallet bed that has a trundle under it. That way it is a couch and at night it is two beds for the boys. It will also give them space to play when in couch mode. I also want to install a table that only has two legs and is mounted to the wall. This will give them space to do art, letters to friends, etc.
Where the living room and dining room are, I was thinking take out the couch and put a new one in, for us to sleep on and where the dining table is rip it out and put a desk for two so we can do our work there. We can buy folding TV trays to eat off of which would suit our new needs just fine (remember we have been tent living).
(break from posting to go potty...outside in the bathroom facility)
PANIC mode! I can't get out the damn tent, and I have to PEEE! OMG! Hubby is in the place I need to go so here I am whisper yelling "HONEY"!! Why? The boys broke the zipper doors to the tent! BOTH of them!
Ah here comes my knight in shinning armor in the night!
Until later...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
OMG! OMG! OMG! Really!?
So early in the morning the owner of the park comes buy and asks us (through our tent mind you, after torrential rain, hail the size of pennies and THUNDER that could wake the dead right above you and torrential winds!) if we were still looking for an RV!?
Little tidbits...What you have to know is that we are in an RV PARK, in a TENT, with everyone worrying about us and if we are OK. Well we didn't fly away to OZ yet. This was our 5th storm weathered in a tent, 4th in the new one (the old one RIP tent). We figured if we could survive 70mph winds in a tent we could survive anything!
So we tell her YES! She says "Well what about that one there...?" in her sweet southern voice. I said "That one?", looking off at this 5th wheel trailer. She says "Yes." I was stunned, she tells us go over there. So we go, the lady wants $1,500 for it. We were like "YES!". Fast forward an hour, she comes back and says well my husband wants $2,000 for it. We are still like "YES!". So after some talking we look around, it will suit our needs and this is just a start...plus I will have a potty, an a/c, a stove, oven...ok so the list was getting a bit long, anyways you get the point! So after some talking she says when can we pay her?! I was like when you moving out?! She had to talk to her husband and was suppose to come tonight to tell us but hasn't. This comes after her telling us she had people offering cash right there on the spot, and her husband had offers too! Hey lady, if it was meant to be it will be!
Man the temperature dropped drastically...I can't work or type with frozen fingers so I am calling it a night!
Until later...
Little tidbits...What you have to know is that we are in an RV PARK, in a TENT, with everyone worrying about us and if we are OK. Well we didn't fly away to OZ yet. This was our 5th storm weathered in a tent, 4th in the new one (the old one RIP tent). We figured if we could survive 70mph winds in a tent we could survive anything!
So we tell her YES! She says "Well what about that one there...?" in her sweet southern voice. I said "That one?", looking off at this 5th wheel trailer. She says "Yes." I was stunned, she tells us go over there. So we go, the lady wants $1,500 for it. We were like "YES!". Fast forward an hour, she comes back and says well my husband wants $2,000 for it. We are still like "YES!". So after some talking we look around, it will suit our needs and this is just a start...plus I will have a potty, an a/c, a stove, oven...ok so the list was getting a bit long, anyways you get the point! So after some talking she says when can we pay her?! I was like when you moving out?! She had to talk to her husband and was suppose to come tonight to tell us but hasn't. This comes after her telling us she had people offering cash right there on the spot, and her husband had offers too! Hey lady, if it was meant to be it will be!
Man the temperature dropped drastically...I can't work or type with frozen fingers so I am calling it a night!
Until later...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Meltdown of the century!
So it was suppose to be a typical Tuesday morning...last week was hard, we kept getting up early (oldest hated that part) and when I say early I mean EARLY, it was freaking cold too! We had things to do and needed to be up and at'em early.
Anyways I think it was just building up and building up like pressure in my pressure cooker and finally it exploded! My oldest had a meltdown of the century! He had his fists clenched, was turned an awful shade of red because he wasn't breathing and was just raging! I kept telling him he needed to breath, calm down, etc. He wouldn't. I had to snap him out of it so I tugged gently on his early, OH boy! He fell to the ground screaming with a glazed over eye look, he stomach was hurting so bad (he refused to drink several times that day) from the knots he was causing to himself. I basically shocked him out of it. He finally calmed down and was able to talk quietly to me. Prior to for the past two days he had been screaming at us. I think he doesn't like that I am doing freelance work. I set out to buy him some rescue remedy gum (I have the drops but he doesn't care for them). He seemed to think it helped him. I don't know.
I think it has been the lack of control of him NOT getting sugar all the time. He is allergic to it. I must say that for the past 6 weeks we haven't been so good at NOT giving it to him. That is all going to change. I refuse to go through that again. I told him you act like you are two you get treated like it. Let's see how he likes mommy walking him to the potty by his hand and being grounded from the play structure for a couple days!
Still nothing on the RV front. Tonight it is suppose to storm badly. Severe thunder storms. My work still continues! I am getting the hang of some parts, some are harder but for those they are just trickier!
Until later...
Anyways I think it was just building up and building up like pressure in my pressure cooker and finally it exploded! My oldest had a meltdown of the century! He had his fists clenched, was turned an awful shade of red because he wasn't breathing and was just raging! I kept telling him he needed to breath, calm down, etc. He wouldn't. I had to snap him out of it so I tugged gently on his early, OH boy! He fell to the ground screaming with a glazed over eye look, he stomach was hurting so bad (he refused to drink several times that day) from the knots he was causing to himself. I basically shocked him out of it. He finally calmed down and was able to talk quietly to me. Prior to for the past two days he had been screaming at us. I think he doesn't like that I am doing freelance work. I set out to buy him some rescue remedy gum (I have the drops but he doesn't care for them). He seemed to think it helped him. I don't know.
I think it has been the lack of control of him NOT getting sugar all the time. He is allergic to it. I must say that for the past 6 weeks we haven't been so good at NOT giving it to him. That is all going to change. I refuse to go through that again. I told him you act like you are two you get treated like it. Let's see how he likes mommy walking him to the potty by his hand and being grounded from the play structure for a couple days!
Still nothing on the RV front. Tonight it is suppose to storm badly. Severe thunder storms. My work still continues! I am getting the hang of some parts, some are harder but for those they are just trickier!
Until later...
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