TRY, TRY, TRY, AND TRY AGAIN

Today has so far been a interesting one. Woke up to Carson crying because he was getting trouble for pushing Alivia and I was unable to go back to sleep and then got into a spat with my son Javi's sister's "mom". She is not really even a mom to this girl at all. All she is, is a bully, mean, spiteful person who has no respect for anyone not even herself. Her oldest daughter comes and babysits from time to time for me    (she is awesome) and she even thinks her mom is out there. Why this women adopted these 2 wonderful girls is beyond me. She doesn't care for the older one and the younger one, I am sure will be kicked to the curb once she has this new baby. It is a long story. But here is the short one ... she was married for 13 years had one child with the husband. Was unable to have anymore children at the time and so she decided to do foster care. CPS had been called on her twice for not taking care of the oldest child (Javi's oldest sister) as she should and yet the state still deemed her fit to adopt. WTH? So finally after 2-3 years of battling with the state she adopts the girls. 3 weeks later she moves out of her house because she is having a affair on the husband and apparently had been for months. She is currently living with the new boyfriend and his mother and is pregnant with this new guy's baby. Crazy.... yes I think she has some serious problems.

These are the girl's the day they were adopted

Here are my kiddos with the girls on their adoption day

My kids absolutely adore her and she adores them as well. Even if they drive her crazy. Which they do.... to every one  (ha ha ha ha)

The sad thing is, is that the oldest girl knows that this women does not like her. For example in the Christmas cards she sent 3 school pictures every one except the oldest girl she adopted. She screams in this girl's face and says that this girl ruined her life and is verbally abusive. The oldest girl lives with the husband (yes this lady is still married)  along with their bio daughter and the youngest girl that was adopted. She also has 2 other kids by a different guy but they are over 18 now. She is a train wreck and I wish that someone would hit her in the head so it would make her realize that she should not treat this girl this way. We try and pick her up as often as we can but with 5 kids of my own it tends to be hard at times. But I am picking her up this weekend and then surprising her by taking her to get her hair done. She needs it. Because they don't do it.

This is the oldest girl and Zander. Christmas eve, she spent Christmas eve and Christmas morning with us this year. We wanted to give her a good Christmas because she deserves it. She is a great girl

   I put in a call to a real estate agent this morning and hopefully he knows of a good mortgage lender. He is suppose to be really good and it helps that his wife and I were good friends in high school. We have decided to put our home up for rent once we find something a little bigger then what we are in now. We have lived in our home for about 7 years. We started off as a newlywed couple with 0 kids and now we have 5 so we are busting at the seams here. ha ha ha  It is hard sometimes for me to fathom moving because we have been here so long. This is the longest I have ever lived in one place in my life. I moved around A LOT when I was younger so being here this long and moving seems strange. It is a bit intimidating  I guess that is why I have waited so long to call a agent but, we did find something we might be interested in. So that call had to be made. It will be sad when we go. I love our neighbors. We have become very close with them and actually consider them are our extended family. We do lots of things together, our children have grown up together and it just seems weird I won't be able to walk next door to see them.

I have wanted to move for quite a while. 7 people in a 1800 sqft home means that there is a lot of running over each other and the kids are still little. We want to get into something before the housing prices and interest rates rise. I will be pretty busy this weekend and next. My little bro is getting married next week and I have yet to buy a dress and I really don't want to. I still have at least another 35 just to be what I was before I was pregnant. I have stayed the same weight for about 2 months now and need to motivate myself to do something but I haven't. Maybe a vacation is needed to get my mojo back. Who knows. Well I better get off have lots to do in little time.