Let the rain keep falling...

Not much going on.  Same old same old, Eric is still working on his potty training skills and looks like I'll be changing out bed sheets til he gets the hang of getting up when he has to go or holding it til he wakes in the morning.  I'm not waking him to make him go because I'm afraid he won't get back to sleep.  I figure when he gets tired of wetting the bed he'll stop and learn to get up when he needs to or hold it til he gets up in the morning.  Would be nice to have him fully trained by the time we see Josh for his first school break.  Was talking to a friend of mine earlier about the whole potty training situation and she suggested I cut of liquids an hour and a half before bedtime in order to keep him from having an over-full bladder during the night.
As always school work is going to throw me for a loop.  Time to get my 3rd paper for class hashed out and turned in and I'm just NOT feeling it.  I need to get my act together and keep on trucking cause I'm gonna screw myself if I have to keep retaking classes.  I have so much shit to get done its not even funny.  Josh starts working at his new job Monday evening/night and he'll be sleeping during the day.  I'm hoping I'll be able to get this paper taken care of before it has to be turned in.  Wednesday I have a play date scheduled for 2ish depending on Rian and her schedule.  As of Friday Josh and I are officially civilians!  No more boat bullshit, no more command bullshit, no more military ass kissing. Funny in all my time in the military I have 3 or 4 good friends I talk to on a regular basis. Everyone else?  They can all go eat shit and die.  Life is going to be rough for us for a while but Josh and I will figure it out.  I think that the last few days has been the most couples time Josh and I has spent together in a really long time.  It's been nice and it's going to make things that much harder when he's working nights and then gone for school.  I guess I should be thankful it's not a deployment.
Funny I titled this particular blog let the rain keep falling but didn't talk at all about the weather we've been having here that is very much needed.  We've had some brush/forest fires in close proximity to us and I have to say that the smoke from them has been damaging to a lot of the local area.  The last two or three days we've had some heavy rain fall, I'm sure the firefighters are thankful for the help, they just wish it wasn't accompanied by lightening that gets the cycle started all over again.  My prayer for them is that they can get the blaze under control and that no one has gotten hurt or will get hurt from this entire situation.

All Hail The Non-Domestic Goddess!

I'll be the first to tell anyone I HATE CHORES!!!!  Wasn't the fondest of them as a kid and still don't like them now.  Don't get me wrong my house is messy and some might even say a tad 'dirty' but my home is bug free.  I don't leave garbage til it piles up to the ceiling, I try to pick up spills right away and I don't leave dishes all over the house for weeks on end and I try to avoid eating in any other room but my kitchen/dining area.

I'm still working with Eric on his potty training and such.  Unfortunately he's a hard sleeper and sleeps right through the night with no wake ups.  This also means he's a bed wetter.  He also fights with distractions during the day when he's got to use the bathroom.  This morning the fact that I had to wash his bed sheets prompted me to wash FIVE that's right (5) loads of laundry.  I'm getting in to the home making mode because I'll have to keep busy and keep costs down while Josh is in school full time.  Tomorrow's game plan is to wash our bed sheets and comforters as well as Eric's again because unfortunately I went to check on him and he was already soaked.  I figure he'll wake himself when he feels it.  This kid sleeps so hard he doesn't even move around when he's sleeping.  At any rate his sheets will be going in to the washer tomorrow morning as well.  On top of the five loads I did today I also did a load of dishes and cleared and cleaned off my kitchen table which happens to be the catch all and my primary work station for just about all things.  My kitchen table is where it all happens, mail piles up, school books pile up, purse, keys, some times Josh's clothes, Eric's clothes, Eric's toys, who says we need to eat meals around the kitchen table?  I really need to start making more of an effort to do things around here more efficiantly.  What is it they say about the road to hell being paved with good intentions?  I've always got the intentions to get my crap together and get organized and have better time management but I never seem to be able to do that for very long.  I'm also a procrastinator when it comes to school work as well.  So trying to do the full time mom thing and full time student thing is going to be a tad crazy.  The only way Josh and I will be able to keep ourselves above water is if I go full time and apply for the Post 9-11 GI Bill so I can collect the housing allowance to make sure the bills here are all paid and I still have money for groceries and occassional things for Eric.  Poor kid life is gonna suck for him if I'm ripping my hair out trying to get school stuff done.
So here's to hoping I can pull it all off.

The clouds are clearing and the end of the tunnel is near!

Wow hadn't realized how much has gone on since I last posted.  Josh has completed his BA in Political Science and graduated with a 3.88 GPA.  The issues from this past October were investigated and found to be untrue.  In the time all this was going on Josh decided he wanted to go to law school so they left him at a different command and he studied to take his LSAT.  He did better then he thought he'd do on the exam.  Once his scores were in he had over 80 schools contact him including Ave Maria School of Law which is a Catholic law school that Josh was looking at when he made his decision.  As it turns out Ave was the first school to send him information and the only one he applied to.  They accepted him with FULL scholarship for tuition.  The school relocated from MI to Naples FL a few years ago.  We've been hard at work trying to get Josh ready to leave for law school in a few weeks.
As for me I'm still working on getting myself through the courses I'm taking without killing myself and I'm having some issues.  Between having health issues and just plain lack of motivation I've had to retake a few courses and I feel like I'm doggie paddling in the same location and not getting any where.  Also Josh will be a civilian as of June 30th so money issues will soon follow the drastic decrease in income.  Not looking forward to that.