I have totally not devoted the time and effort to this blog that I had hoped to. With four children and teaching a special needs class, I'm absolutely beat by the time that I get home! Poor excuse but that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Things at our house have been chaos but what's new there when you grow up and have responsibilities? My husband has started a new business and it's definitely a slow process! Smart people (which we are not) would have banked money aside for living expenses until the business got rolling. Not us! Right now we are living by the seat of our pants and hoping for the business to take off! Who says teaching doesn't pay off? It has fed the mouths of six people for almost a month now which I'm grateful for. I don't know much about the trucking business and brokering out freight is truly dependent on the weather. The storms that have slammed the midwest and northern states have really took their toll on the trucking industry and our income level. Despite our current plight I have compassion for those people living through all of the snowy weather. The south is where I'll stay, thank you very much!

The spring promises to bring about new things for my family and for once I'm totally going into it with an optimistic point of view. Not like me at all! I had my bouts of being negative and my husband was probably wishing that I was not his wife! LOL This too shall pass!

Oh! Yesterday I celebrated my 33rd birthday. It wasn't all that bad after all. Jim surprised me with a wonderful coffee ice cream cake from Coldstone Creamery. It was delish!