Bugs, spiders, and day to day living

I now have to dig out dead bugs from my sink so that I can do dishes. Any by dishes I mean hand washing there is no dishwasher in this house.  The doors don't shut completely and the window's have plastic and aluminium foil over them. Yes I said aluminium foil, not sure why it was like that when we moved in.  I don't even have to turn the door knobs to get in my house.  All I do is push on the door.  I don't even have a key to my doors.  I don't think there is even keys.  The kids have to call grandma to kill jumping spiders.  I have to sort my trash into burnables and non burnable as there is no trash service in the country. We are getting another window air conditioner next week which will help when the heat starts.  In the bathroom the hot water has no pressure when you want to take a shower.  Yet in the bathroom and kitchen faucets the hot water comes out with too much pressure.  Last night I had to fill pitcher up with hot water from the kitchen so that Nathan could take a shower by dumping the hot water from the pitcher over his body.  I AM NOT A COUNTRY GIRL. THAT IS WHY I MOVED FROM THE COUNTRY WHEN I WAS 16.  Yet some how we will overcome this and we'll be a better family because of it.  Privacy, I do not know what that is anymore.  I see and spend more time with my children than I ever have in my life. I can't decide if we live like we are camping or if we live like we where staying in a hotel room.  I think it's a combo of both.  I have a fire ring right outside of my front door.  And to join in the fun my brother will be moving back in with my mom later this week. 

Cow crap

I get home tonight and all I can smell is cow crap....The joys of living in the country.  I then find out that we're out of cereal for breakfast in the morning.  I think to myself (I'll go to the grocery store and buy cereal) problem with that is that I got home from work at 8:30pm and the grocery store closed at 8pm......I need to get back to Joplin and my 24 hour grocery stores.

Monster Ants

My home is being invaded by BIG MONSTER ANTS. Just had to throw away cereal because the ants were enjoying a tasty treat. This city girl is not used to monster big ants, I mean I had little ants when I lived in the city. Never these monster size ants. I wonder what I could do to maybe get them to go find a new home. Guess I'll do a google search and see what I find.

There are more bugs in my house then outside,....I don't like bugs

Missouri taxes 2011

I filed my Missouri taxes today. Well I completed the form and will put it into the mail in the morning. I cooked lunch for Nathan and my brother Foster and then they had a good afternoon playing Playstation 3 games. Kylie got home from after working all weekend. We rented the girl with the dragon tattoo. It was an interesting movie, now I want to read the book. Time for sleep and another busy busy week :)

I can't handle this

So I've been in the country for one week now. Not sure if I will be able to handle this. Today my mom took something that was mine that I was storing in her house. I just gave up and told her fine just keep it. She continued to tell me that someone had told her she could have it. Tonight Nathan freaked out over the bugs in the house. He is not doing well at all with being here. And I agree that it all really sucks. But I have no other options at the moment, so some how we will all have to deal with it and hope that we don't go insane in the process.

moving back

Well as of April 7th, 2012 myself and my two teenager's have moved back to my childhood property. We went from a 3 bedroom newer home located in Royal Heights in Joplin, Missouri to a 2 bedroom trailer that was built in the 1960's. The trailer is sitting on my parent's land in Sarcoxie, Missouri. Financially it's been a very difficult year and after much debating and fighting I found that it was the best for me and my children to move back home. I fought with the decision for several months before I admited to myself that it was the only option that I had. I didn't want to move into a trailer, located on my parent's property, in the smallest town ever (I know it's not but it sure feels like it is). I didn't even tell any of my friends I was moving. I did post it on FB but only about a week before we moved. So now instead of having the best neighbor ever, my neighbor is my mother & her BF. My dad passed away in July 2010, but that will be for a different post. The positive's and negative's of the move, financially it is better (the plan is that by September I'll be caught up financially and can move back to Joplin, the kids have internet access (no more going to McDonalds for hours to do homework), it is quiet, I have tree's around me, Nathan has chicken's that he's taking care of, my mother and her BF live within 40 feet of me, I have an hour drive to work each day, Kylie & Nathan have a drive of 20 minutes to school, Joplin Schools allowed the kids to stay going to JHS :),