Not much of a blogger am I?

Whoops! Anyway, I'm going to try working on this, as I am planning on doing a separate blog that may help me professionally if I decide to go into journalism (one of the two change in career ideas I have).



UPDATES on the Johnson family:



Aaron...is back from deployment, well has been since March, then went to Field Medical training in Camp Lejune NC until July. The day he "graduated" and came "home" we loaded up our cars with what didn't go on the truck and headed down to Jacksonville FL where we purchased a brand spanking new home.



Michelle...I left a great job to relocate for my dear husband, and have yet to find a job here in Florida. I have had several interviews, and I work with a staffing agency from time to time. Buuuut, I also found out about a month after we moved here that I was pregnant with Johnson Monkey number 3. Turns out this happened the week we moved to Florida. So I have put on hold my job search, since I am due in just over 2 months. I am also still going to school persuing my Bachelor's degree in accounting. I will have two more terms after the current one I am in...this puts me with graduation around September. Life should be a little less hectic by then, so I plan to resume my job search then.



Aidan...holy moly this boy is growing, he will be FOUR in May! He is a smart little dude...and picking up everything and I mean EVERYTHING that Aaron says...good and bad! Yikes...I am anticipating lots of trips to the principal's office in my future. He loves his sister and seems excited that he will have another sister soon. He misses "school" (daycare) but luckily Florida has a program for kids his age and he should be starting pre-school in September. He is fully potty trained now so he is ready to go!



Amethyst...my little lady is not so little anymore! She will be TWO in just a few short weeks. I'm not sure where the time has gone! She loves to "pick on" her brother, she will take things from him she knows will make him upset. Her vocabulary grows on a daily basis and amazes me. She is now sleeping (well that's what we call it) in her big girl bed. Around New Year's day she figured out how to get out of her crib and we decided there was no point keeping her there. She is also my little escape artist...she runs away from me every chance she gets! This is proving to be complicating the further along I get in my pregnancy.



Well there you have it folks! A very short version of the last year. Not sure how I'm going to format this in the future as our life is not THAT exciting, but we'll just see how it goes. I will update on my new blog once I get it up and running.

Amethyst turned one!

I cannot believe it! My baby girl turned ONE! She is growing so fast and getting quite the personality. One of the funniest things she does is, when she laughs she goes "he he he" and sticks her tongue out! Also she started this next thing one day when I asked her if she was pooping, she nodded her head dramatically. So now if you ask her "Amy do you want chicken nuggets?" she nods her head, I love it! She started walking the week she turned one. She says a lot, but it's in her own language. She is very polite and always says thank you when I hand her something. She loves animals...and I mean LOVES them. She squeals and gets so excited anytime she sees an animal. This evening she went outside to play while I got dinner ready and she walked up to our cat Pokey and got down to his level so she could talk to him.

Christmas 2008

Wow, what a boring day! Aaron wasn't home, and my parents had a quiet Christmas as it was the "inlaws" turn for Christmas, but we don't really celebrate with my inlaws. So I worked the day before Christmas, had Christmas off, and I had to work the next day. So Christmas was boring...the kids opened presents and we just stayed home playing all day.

So that didn't work out so well

So much for my attempt to blog! It's been, oh, 6.5 months since my first/last posts. So what has been going on? Here are the topics for my upcoming posts:

1) Christmas!
2) Amethyst turned one!
3) My husband came home at the end of March.
4) We went to Jacksonville for Easter to look for a house
5) We found a house and started to buying process
6) Aidan turned three!
7) My job
8) What's in store for us

Sunday/Monday * 11.16/17.08

My Sundays & Mondays always seem to run into each other...I'm not sure why I did it. Why did I go back to school when I KNEW my husband would be gone for so long? It's nice when my kids decided to take their naps at the same time, but when they alternate their schedules I can't fit in time to do ANYTHING!

Nice thing is, if I keep at the pace I'm going (not only will the time slip by before my love comes home) I should have my degree by the end of 2009!!

Alright...it is 1:40 Am...I better head to bed if I'm going to get up early enough to get us all dressed and out the door by 7:40!

He knows what to repeat * 11.14.08

How come when I try to get Aidan to say something like Barack Obama I can't get him to say it...but yet in the middle of road rage when I yell out "Thanks a$$ hole" he can repeat it clear as day? And last week I was so exhausted that I spilled the bowl I was filling up for him all over the stove and after he repeated "mommy you dropped it" 5,000,000 times I said "yeah because mommy is so effing (though I said the full word) tired." All I heard the rest of the night until he went to bed was "mommy your effing tired?" Luckily he hasn't repeated that word since, and after he initially repeated me this evening I haven't heard that word either.

I always thought Aaron was the one that was going to get Aidan to say those words...mommy better watch her potty mouth huh?

I have no clue * 11.14.08

So, I have one blog on Myspace that is pretty lame. Other than that, this is my FIRST attempt at blogging. I have three intents on setting up this blog. One is I teng to ramble because as I type I get ideas and I start typing them...completely going off topic. Two is I like to talk about my kids, and what better way to to that than on a blog :). Three is I've lately, like the last three years or so, been interested in a job in journalism. So a while back while searching jobs to see what they require I came accross a job listing for a blogger. I had no qualifications whatsoever, so it wasn't something to persue. So I decided I need to try out blogging, see how it works, and then develop something I'm passionate about that not many people *like* to blog about as that seemed to be what they were looking for.

So I look forward to getting feedback from all my friends & family on what you think of my blog!

Thanks for visiting!