Marsha Loftis

Well, yesterday was hectic indeed. We had the movers, direct tv and the cable company at our house at the same time. The movers unloaded our stuff and then we discovered that two of our crates were missing. None of my kitchen appliances or dishes made it to our new house. We are also missing a dresser, a computer chair and a few other things. The moving company said they would find our crates and hopefully deliver our missing things in a day or two. I am so glad my husband took out insurance to cover any loss 100%.

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The moving company called and said they will be at our house bright and early tomorrow morning at 7am. Everybody say “WOOT”!!!!!!

I can’t wait to have all of my stuff back. I’m not looking forward to waking up before the crack of dawn but I can deal.

I am expecting tomorrow to be very hectic.

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These pictures were taken the morning we left my parents house to come to Arizona. This was the only morning we saw fog. I thought it was cool.

Well, we made it to our new home in Surprise Arizona about 1:30am this morning. The morning was spent unloading the car and truck. The kids picked out their bedrooms. That took about 2 seconds. Most of the day has been spent lying around and watching cartoon videos on the TV be brought along. I hooked up the cable cord a few minutes ago and discovered we already have cable TV……we also have high speed internet!!!!! I wish I would have thought to hook up that cable this morning. 🙂

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so I have this little story to tell…..

My daughter Morgan and my nephew were having a disagreement over who was getting to name the virtual fish on the computer’s screen saver. My sister trying to be diplomatic and make both of them happy suggested they split the fish. My nephew could name part of the fish and Morgan could name part of the fish.

MY Morgan said “OK, but I get to name the heads.”

I was so caught off guard by what Morgan said I practically cried with laughter.

also, this is my last entry until I get my stuff in my new house in Arizona. We leave Tennessee tomorrow morning around 8am. I will be on the road for the next three days. I will see you when I get my home computer set up.

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Marsha

We had a little family gathering at my mom and dads house yesterday evening. It was an evening of hambergers, hot dogs, soda,, chips and lots of conversation. I was telling my uncle the retired postman that I sent postcards around the world to my friends. He thought it was cool but then let me know that I should have taken the postcards to the postoffice instead of just dropping them in the mailbox for pick up. Apparently, the postage is different when you mail postcards to foreign countries. Well duh!!, I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me. I am nearly 42 years old. So what I decided to do is resend a second postcard from Tennessee to everyone that lives outside the United States. I will take these postcards to the postoffice and have the proper postage put on them. There is a chance that the original postcards will make it to their destination anyway but I don’t want to take the chance that people won’t get their postcards.

I am off to address cards

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marsha

I’m at my moms house. sadly, my dad’s brother(My uncle) lost his wife after a long illness. There was a funeral today. We did not go. I know it is awful but I couldn’t get in the car and drive another long journey to attend a funeral. My parents will be back home tonight.

Happily we are going to Opry mills mall tomorrow and spend the day. I love that mall. We will take pictures if I can remember to take the camera.

Other news, while traveling to my parents house yesterday my husband truck blew a tire. It scared me to death because I was in the car behind him. I have never seen a tire blow before. It was a very loud boom and tire went everywhere. I am glad my husband is a good driver. He had three of the kids in the truck with him. We were all able to pull over to the side of the interstate and change the tire and then continue on our way.

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Marsha

PS. I mailed the second set of postcards.

We spent all day yesterday at Dollywood in Seveireville, Tennessee. Had a great time. Here is a picture of the family.

The first batch of postcards were mailed today. If you would like to receive a postcard from me, from the state of Tennessee there is still time. Send me your address to my email and I will get you a postcard in the mail.

Marsha

madie@beartribenet.com

We are having a real good time. We went to a family reunion yesterday and it was a lot of fun. Believe it or not but we neglected to take pictures.

I haven’t been able to get online because we are living with my sister in law and she has dial-up. I can’t spend my day online because my brother in law in a police officer. They need to keep their phone lines open.

IF anyone would like to receive a post card from Tennessee send me your address to my email. I will send everyone a post card from the state of Tennessee that  sends me their address and I promise not to sell it to telemarketers. :)    madie@beartribenet.com

 I will check my email in a couple of days for addresses. Please do not leave your address here. We wouldn’t want strangers to get your address. That would be bad.

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Well we turned over our house keys to the owner yesterday evening at 7pm. Things went well, we received out entire $1200 deposit back…yeah! money.

In a couple of hours we will begin our journey to Tennessee for our little vacation.

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This is how we painted the rooms before we decided to rent a ladder.

I am looking forward to Friday. Friday, I will hand over the keys to this house to the owner and start my vacation. I need a vacation. I am looking forward to being pampered by my relatives. I am looking forward to sleeping in. I’m looking forward to living out the next couple of weeks not knowing what I am going to do from one day to the next. Will I just sit and talk to relatives? Will I go on a picnic? Will I go to the mall and shop? Will I take a drive in the country? I am looking forward to not having any cares in the world. I’m looking forward to pawning my children off on the relatives. 🙂 I actually don’t have to pawn my children because the moment we hit Tennessee everyone will go off into a hundred different directions. My children will have the time of their lives. It happens, I can’t explain it. I probably won’t see them again until the day we pack-up, say goodbye and start our journey to our new home in Arizona.
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I have to finish cleaning this house by Wednesday….I’m getting closer to being done. Do I really want to clean today or do I want to lie around and be lazy…thinkin, thinkin, thinkin….

Just a thought but this blog needs pictures….sorry folks! but pictures are out for the time being. It takes too long to upload with this laptop. I’d be here thru next week waiting for things to upload.

Next week.. I really want to be in my home state of Tennessee visiting relatives, sleeping in late, and being woken by freshly baked biscuits and gravy.

….I have decided to finishing cleaning the kitchen and my bathroom and spend the rest of the day watchng movies…maybe!.. Maybe I should just play things by ear. Maybe I will just clean the kitchen…blog surf and watch a movie. I need a cup of coffee.
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So I have been cleaning this house for nearly a week. I’m still not done. This house has been very lived in for the last 4 years. Anyway, the topic of the day is my medicine cabinet. I know people usually keep these things in the bathroom but ours has been in the kitchen right above the stove. We have accumulated more drugs in this cabinet than should be allowed by any one family. Good gosh it is taking for ever to clean out. It wouldn’t be so hard if I could just chuck everything into the trash but I am thinkin this wouldn’t be a good idea. So I set out on my task of dumping the stuff down the sink or rather the garbage disposal.

some of the things in my medicine cabinet that I have thrown away include: old anitbiotics- a very lovely assortment, old caugh syrup, old eye drops, old nose drops, old stomach medicine….I have no idea why some of this stuff is even around….old bandaids, old thermomenters—digital, not the mercury kind…..suntan lotion, lighter fluid, an old first aid kit-it was empty….old muscle relaxers, old pain meds-can’t remember the names…a spoon, old store receipts…and the list could go on and on,.

some of the things I saved…blood pressure cuff, Morgan’s inhalers- I thought this might be important…a bottle of tylenol and a bottle of motrin.

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Marsha

We are moving into the base T.L.F. today. TLF stands for Temporary Living Facility. Kind of sounds like we are being incarcerated doesn’t it? We will be staying in the TLF until I can finish getting this house cleaned up and painted in a few places. I am almost done. I just need to get all of the kids out of my hair so that I can finish with everything I need to do. I work best without distraction. There is only one major problem with the TLF it doesn’t have high speed internet. Everybody say boooooo!!!!!!! None of my kids want to go to the TLF because they won’t have internet access. I’m not paying for dial-up. They will have to deal with only watching TV. Of course, I will still have the internet until I turn this house over to the owner. 🙂 Sometimes I love the perks of being a parent.

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Marsha

Today is Father’s Day.

I have been extremely luckily. There are two men in my life that are great fathers. My own father has always been wonderful. I think he has always loved being a father. I don’t remember my father never being there and supporting me in what ever it was that I was doing at the time. Happy Father’s Day Dad!
I know my husband loves being a father. My children should consider themselves lucky to have a Dad that is so loving. My husband loves his children deeply. My husband grew up without a father in his life. He only had uncles as role models. These uncles of course were great fathers too! I think my husband learned his fathering skills from his uncles but I also think he made a conscious effort to be a great Dad. My husband knew from the start what he didn’t want to be like. He didn’t want to be like his own father who was never there. Happy Father’s Day Ken. You are a wonderful Dad.