Ask and you shall......

RECEIVE!!!! Of course as long as its in his will. We have been praying practically all summer (maybe even longer then that) for Eric to find a job. Eric has been going once a week putting in applications and trying to meet with principals with basically no luck. I was pretty much prepared to not start this school year with a job (listen to me....I am talking like I am the one trying to find a job....but we are in this together....so it is kinda like I am looking for a job too), and I had become okay with that. If thats what was meant for us, then I would accept it. But we kept praying.

  If you dont already know teaching jobs in muscogee county are VERY difficult to come by.  Plus, as if it wasn't already hard enough, they cut the K4 day in half, causing a pay cut for all the K4 teachers in the area. This, in-turn, cause a lot of those teachers to take most of the available teaching jobs away because they typically hire within before hiring someone new. SOOO....every job that has come up has been a K4 position....breath... Its a complete domino effect.
Nothing is for sure, nothing is positive, But doors have opened and we are gladly walking through them!
Plus Eric won a grant from Ga power  for $1,000 for his class room. What a blessing!! I was worried about that the most because I know that stuff for a classroom is not cheep! Now if I can get him to go with a theme.....He hasn't liked any I have come up with yet. =)

Dog and Cat are tolerating each other. They have met without barking or hissing. PTL!! It only took a week. I thought on Ellie's part, because she is so antisocial, that is would take months. But she came out and initiated on her own. I thought it would be soo much worse then it was. Everyone said they would be fine.....and they are.  Honestly, Knox just wants to play with her.....But he doesn't know who he is messing with. Ellie doesn't play, and if she does its on her terms.....She is a little diva.
We have been a few days without accidents in the house too!! Until this morning....but it was kinda my fault.

I have been off for over a week now. It has been great! Its not the beach trip I had hoped for....but it was a break. I was not bored in the slightest bit and I didn't spend a ton of money!!! Well I spent a little, but Eric owed me =).

randomness....

Some random things for today....

• My poor cat will not come out from under the bed. Only when the dog is gone or she feels like eating. This, more then anything in a long time, is making me sad. I miss her
• I have been off for 6 days now, 5 more to go, and my house is still not clean. I blame the dog. =)
• Is annoyed by the fact that just because I have been married a year that I am expected to get pregnant....why?? I mean what is the deal in the south with having babies at 22. Cant I wait if i choose and everyone be excited for that???
• I went and saw Harry Potter.....again....last night. =)
• I saw a guy I went to elementary school with the other day. He was not exactly nice to me. He was checking me out at a store. I got in his line before I realized who it was.  He noticed my name.....it tends to get me noticed. too bad I couldn't remember his...his name tag was turned around. "Were you Dara Davies??' (me) "Yes." (Guy) "Wow you look completely different!!!" (me) " Well I hope so since that was 11 years ago." (guy) "And your married!" (me) "yeah" (guy) "So what do you do??" (me) "I'm a nurse" guy "dang"....not the nice kind....the kind of dang that would have been followed by " I would have never guess that you would have been smart enough to do that"....I probably am over exaggerating......but I mean come on did he still expect me to have glasses, braces and bad hair and clothes too??? Thats kinda where the conversation ended. 
• I love online shopping and getting stuff in the mail makes it feel like Christmas in July
• Here's the deal....If I decide to delete you from Facebook........don't confront me about it. Just except the fact that I don't want to you to know my business or Facebook stock me. And its probably your fault because you were rude.....and I don't up with that. Get over it. Life will go on. I promise. 
• I have been baking homemade goodies and freezing them. I was bored a few days ago am my mother in law gave me a whole bunch of peaches....so I made peach cobbler. I hope my girls at work will like it.
• I have been dong quiet times in our baby room. =)
• I am so thankful for ac.....it's darn hot!!!
• I hate that the squirrels are enjoying my bird feeder more then the birds.
• I got a massage yesterday. It was blissful.
• We are currently praying for God to open up the next door for Eric. We will be ok if he cant get a job teaching, but on the other end, we really want a job teaching. I think its sad that none of our other jobs would exist without teachers, but yet our teachers cant find jobs, or they are cutting their jobs. Instead of cutting teachers jobs and wages, the people making those decisions should cut their obnoxious wages so that our children can be properly educated and our teachers can do their jobs. We are praying, and waiting, and dropping off resumes, and praying. Thats all we can do at this point. 

Things I LOVE today!

Can I just tell you that I LOVE our pastor. Not only for the man he is and the example he is for our church but mainly because I know when I come to listen to him he is speaking directly from what God has told him. I have been to churches where there is a set program every week, or places where they have their sermons planned out for the year. When I hear a sermon I want to to be something God has told the person to share with us. I love how this morning he had he sermon planned out for us and God lead him in another direction and he listened. How awesome is it that God can change our plans and what can happen when we listen. I wish I was more like that.
We have such a great church family, not to brag or anything. It gives me peace knowing the kind of people that will one day (in a few years =) help me raise our kids. They will have such wonderful people teaching the and being examples to them. They will be blessed little ones.

On another note....this dog is a hoot. Right now he is trying to figure out how to get a chewy and a bone in his mouth at the same time. He doesn't like going outside, but when he goes outside he doesn't want to come back in. He is good though....for now....till he chews up a shoe or the legs on my dining room table.....patience Dara.....patience. I am trying to learn. But honestly for the nightmare I thought this would be....it isn't yet. I hope it stays that way. Something tells me it wont stay that way.
Ellie still wont come out and meet him. But she will have to come around. I love her but she will have to get over herself if you know what I mean.

I want to also say that I LOVE my coworkers. I couldn't ask for a better group of women that are outstanding at what they do and still after a year willing to put up with my moments of insecurity and lack of confidence and who have my back. Its sometimes hard working with all women, and we have a times that we get on each others nerves but what family doesn't =).
Happy Sunday!

It's Harry Potter Time!!!

AHHH!!! I am so excited!!! It was maddness, and crazy and crowed with little teenage girls that probably never even seen a harry potter movie or read a book, creepy folks dressed up in cloaks with wands and glasses,  but I didn't care!!! It was a great movie. I wont get into specifics because I know some people haven't seen it yet, but put it this way.....it was darn good. It was everything I wanted it to be and more. It didn't have everything it was suppose to but what movie/book series does.

I was ready in style, not the creepy kind, but enough to let people know.

Love these 3d glasses. They ran out of them right after we got there cause they over sold tickets and didn't order enough 3d glasses. Leave it to Carmike to screw things up. They over sold so many tickets that there were no seats left for some and they were going to have to wait 2 hrs to get a seat. Oh yeah and they also didn't tell me they were showing part 1 at 9 in the BigD, which I asked about when I bought my ticket. I bought my ticket specifically for that theater. So they told me I was going to have to a smaller one or wait an hour. Screw that!! We went in anyway and a sweet guy moved over so we could have a seat right in the middle. Made my night even more! Poor Eric had been working all day and had to be at work at 6. By time we got home it was 2:40am. But he wanted to go, even if he tell you he didn't. He would have never let me go without him, even though I would have =).

I laughed and cried...It was great. I am so sad that its over. I have no idea what I am going to look forward to now. I am going to miss explaining the movie to Eric afterwards because he didn't read the books (or watch the movies 100 times) and the story can be complex. I hope one day our kids will love it just as much as I do. 

Can't wait to go see it again. Probably next week!! Happy Friday!

FILL IN THE BLANK FRIDAY!!

It's Friday!!! Which I have learned in the medical field means NOTHING!!!! Sometimes Friday turns into my Monday....I know....depressing. But one of the things I love about my  career choice is while all of you are working 5 days a week..... I only work three!!! One of the other things I love about my job is that a very rarely ever have to get up in the morning. True story! on to filling in the blanks!

1.   I am a (morning, evening, middle of the day person)   complete evening person. working night shift will do that to you. Eric always laughs at me cause we will come home from dinner or something at like 9pm, and I want to start cleaning the house and doing laundry and he is trying to go to bed!!

2.  My favorite Pandora stations are   80s pop and the Beatles....I know...My mom have once told me I was born in the wrong decade. What can I say, they had great music.

3.  3 of my "must-have" songs for a road trip playlist are   ohhh.... this is a hard one. I would have to say 90's country (the garth brooks, allen jackson, reba, martina era)  and Bruise Springsteen.

4.  My favorite pattern is  damask. If I could put it everywhere I would. 

5.  My favorite perfume is     I dont really where perfume. I used to buy it and then I would never remember to put it on. I do like the Burberry perfume. 

6.  Rules are      necessary but can be taken out of hand. I mean I don't break rules but every once in a while I find a way to bend them. 

7.  My most overused phrase or punctuation is       "Ten to One" Eric loves this one. The first time I said it he was like "What in the world does that mean"? Honestly I have no idea myself. I got it from my mother. Its amazing how the older I get the more I sound like her.

Now go see Lauren!

Oh Geez!!!/ Why yes....I am a fanatic =)

Can I be honest with you for a moment???? So as usual I am stupid. Not in the literal sense....but in the fact that people try to warn me of things and I dont believe them. People told me planning a wedding while going to nursing school and working was crazy. Keep in mind my wedding was 3 WEEKS after graduation.  I was like "people plan weddings every day, it will be fine. I am in nursing school, I know all about that stress thing. I can handle this." I mean I got through it but I spent most of my honeymoon sleeping and probably not the kind you would expect on a honeymoon if you know what I mean.
People told me buy a house was a money hole. Once again "we have everything we need",  I said.....except a lawn mower, a weed eater, a blower, a dining room table, a spare bed.....and oh yeah we have more walls. So all that stuff we had on the wall at the apartment that fill up the walls now doesn't touch the wall space we have now. MONEY HOLE!!!

To add to this madness Eric mentioned to me that I once promised him once we got into a house I would let him get a dog.....yeah like I thought he would forget that I told him that like he does every other thing I tell him....not this time. So here he is.

Cute right??? I know. I love dogs. But I LOVE my cat. Ellie can be a sweet and loving, but she is also skittish, and can be mean. The one time she came in contact with a cat at the vet she hissed and peed on herself....which is why I have resisted getting another cat. But this is a dog. So if anyone has any suggestions or tips on cat dog raising I would love to hear them. I am clueless and I really hate goolgling stuff cause they usually have horror stories on the internet. So like I said your help will be greatly appreciated. Also we are trying to come up with a name. Post one you like! It may be the winner!

In other news....Harry Potter 7 part 2 comes out in a little over 24 hrs!!!! Call me a nerd, call me a fanatic, obsessed, crazy, what have you. I simply dont care. I have been reading these books (in secret) since the 9th grade. 10 years ago all my friends thought Harry Potter was stupid and weird so I really kept it on the DL. Now that I am 23 and all of my friends are into twilight and just as obsessed with that as I am with HP, I just dont care. How obsessed am I?? Well put it this way. I am one of those going to the premiere at 1200am tomorrow and I will pretty much get in a fist fight for a seat. I have a t-shirt to ware but I am not crazy enough to get a robe and red and yellow tie and wand. I have read all the books, 4-6 twice, 7 three times, and I would like to sell all of my paperbacks to get hardback copies. And of course I have all the movies. Eventually I want a framed movie poster. So if thats what you call crazy, then well....I guess I am crazy. But....Twilight fans are just as crazy. Dont get me wrong, I like Twilight. But I LOVE Harry Potter. Needless to say I have dragged Eric (dont be fooled, he came willingly) into all this madness. There is just nothing like a movie premiere. If you have never been to one go just for the excitement. I have been going to premiers almost every summer since I was 16. I love them. 

I also would like to know if anyone out there knows anything about gardens. I have one that is terribly over grown. I just spent an hour out trying to clear it out and I only got a corner clear. If you have any suggestions I welcome them!