Scary to Me...{Die Hard Republican}

This is my blog, so I'm going to share my opinion...My opinion is I am a Republican.  However, I will say I was optimistic and hopeful that our President would do good for our Country.  It does not appear that has happened over the past four years...This chart below is alarming to say the least.  Do you want these type of statistics for the next four years?  Not me...

XO and rooting for Gingrich! TB

Happy Weekend {with pugs!}

It is no secret to anyone that knows us well that we are serious "pug people"...Our babies started out their morning outraged at us that they had to go outdoors in this cold...Not. happy. campers.  At all!  :)

Hope everyone has a blessed weekend and that these pug pics start your day with a smile; ours always do us! :)

XO-Tarin
All images via Pinterest

Death Row Cats and Dogs Featured in Coffee Table Book - DNAinfo.com

Death Row Cats and Dogs Featured in Coffee Table Book - DNAinfo.com

These images are so profound...I told Philip the next fur-baby we bring into our house will be from a shelter. Look at these sweet innocent faces...I think I need this book!

School {Grad School} Days

This week has gone by at a snails pace for me...I started back to school on Monday.  I am not gonna lie...I got spoiled over the month of December being home every night with the hubby and pugs.  I LOVE making dinner, cleaning up, having time to leisurely do laundry and put it away, gardening, etc.  Now...NO time to do any of said things.  It is like a straight up rat race.  One where my printer broke down the first day of classes, anxiety of meeting new professors we've never had before, etc. 


I try and remember that with all of the major life things we've had happen over this past month, that in truth, this is small stuff.  NOT big stuff.  I have made an executive decision this year to not sweat the small stuff...I am going to stay calm and do the best I can do...NO MORE freaking out and stressing the small stuff that I simply cannot change! :)

via http://www.pinterest.com/

I suppose that is my New Years goal...Don't sweat the small stuff...Worrying about things doesn't solve anything.

XOXO-Tarin {Have a great long weekend!  I am OFF Fri-Mon!}

BIG News

SO....We have big new here on Cooper Avenue!  We are putting the house on the market this afternoon.  At 3:30p.m. - We will officially be FOR SALE! :) 

This has been a long process of really thinking and debating...Is it really right for us to do this?  Hubby  bought this house five years ago when he was still a bachelor.  Lets face it...It is our home because we have made it so, but we've sort of outgrown it.  I am looking forward to a new house, new chapter, and new memories to be made in a new house!

Cooper Ave. House...You have been good to us!  Here's hoping we have great fortune and blessings and it doesn't sit on the market indefinitely! :)

The front of the house - This is right before hubby made an offer!

Back of house/deck.  LOTS more landscaping has been done since this!

Numbers of Our Lives Lately

1 - Number of trips to the groomer for Priscilla - She did great!

2 - Number of times I have fallen - either up the stairs or onto the floor directly this past month

3 - Number of houses we looked at this week and number of days left until I start back to school

5 - Loads of laundry I did just today (It never seems to end around here!)

7 - Days until our 3rd plant goes up in Byron - We are so proud of Oconee Concrete!

11 - Books I read over this Christmas break

30 - More days until my HSG procedure - this will tell us whether or not we can have a baby without IVF.

850 - Dollars I won and quickly put in the bank this past week

I didn't have it in my to really put together a good post.  Hope everyone had a blessed New Year - we certainly did and are looking forward to 2012!

XO-T



Lately

Yesterday was my follow up with my doctor and she took my bandages off and my stitches have healed well!  We still have one more procedure to go through called an HSG that I have to have done in two months; it doesn't sound all that pleasant.  I am willing though to make sure that we don't wind up in surgery again due to the same circumstances.  If the HSG doesn't show what they want it to, then we have one more option with IVF; therefore I am praying that the HSG results are GREAT when they do it!

Until then I have my second semester of Grad school starting next month, Christmas this weekend with my hubby's family and mine, and my sweet MIL's b-day dinner tonight in Macon.  We are hitting up the local Bonefish; we LOVE the bang-bang shrimp.  I am remembering to count my blessing of which I have many and to remember that everything happens in God's time, not mine.  The pugs are excited to be traveling as well to see all of their fur-cousins in Gray...this will be our Priscilla Pug's 1st Christmas! 

This was Porter Pug last Christmas - It amazes me how much older he looks now-Time flies!

Merry Christmas and safe travels to everyone!!!
XOXO-T