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DISCLAIMER: This is a LONG post! You have been warned!!!! : )

Why is it that no matter where you go there is always someone in your neighborhood that has to start trouble? Well that is what we are going thru right now with one of my neighbors. The really horrible part is that they live right below us, so we have to see them everyday.

The trouble all started when the neighbor’s daughter began picking on Kiersten. So we told Kiersten if the kid is being mean to you…just don’t play with her and she’ll get the point. Well apparently the kid didn’t get the memo because she continued and it esclated to just plain making fun of Kiersten and her special needs. We told Kiersten not to play with the little girl (her name is Hope) any more until we had talked to her parents.

Well one morning at the bus stop, Becca told Hope that they couldn’t play with her anymore because “she was a mean girl”. Becca is not known for her tact! : ) So Hope asks me if it was true and I answered her honestly and told her that’s the way it was until we spoke with her mom and dad about the problem. SHe then tells me that her mom said if someone was mean to her then she needs to be mean to them. Good parenting advice I know.
Well the little girl runs over to her mom and tells her …who returns to tell me that her mom (lisa) wants to speak with me. Ok no big deal right??? Wait there is MORE

So Becca and I are walking back to our apartment and we are halfway up the driveway, where Lisa is “waiting” for us. All of a sudden she starts yelling and screaming at me. Honestly I didn’t know what to stay … yes dear reader I was speechless! Once I got over the shock, the arguement ensued.

I have to admit now that I think about it … it was kind of funny. (not at the time) Lisa was yelling at me for absolutely nothing. SHe didn’t hear anything directly from me and only had one version of the story. Well if anyone that knows me well, knows that didn’t sit well with me…Especially starting this right in front of Becca.

So I go inside, talk to Dan about and then start to calm down about it…you think its over ? NOPE Apparently the entire neighborhood heard the story and wanted to know what happened.

So then in the afternoon, I go down to the bus stop with my other neighbor Wendy. After about 5 min I see Lisa there with her husband. (her husband never comes down to the bus stop) I immediately thought did she think I was going to “jump” her LOL

All that happened on Wednesday and we heard about our new house the very same day … so at least we don’t have to deal with them for very long. Although, I do feel for the rest of our neighborhood that has to put up Hope the bully and her mother. I almost feel sorry for the little girl and the dad for having to put up with a person like Lisa. You can definitely see where the child gets it from.

Hopefully there will be no more encounters between her and I .. I wouldn’t doubt it though. Her husband wants her and I to “patch things up ” so we can be freinds. I think its a little past that point don’t you??

No its just to another area on Ft Belvoir LOL … did I scare ya?  Actually we finally received notice from the housing office that our new, bigger house is ready! woohoo! We move in the week of Oct 23rd and I am so excited about it. We will be on the main part of Ft. Belvoir and the girls don’t have to share a room any longer as well as I finally get to have an office once again.
Once I can get over there, I will take a picture of it.

And … our first family members to visit us will be my dad and my grandmother so I’m very happy about that. Grandma Maltese has been quite sick over the last year with a few hospital stays,etc. so this will be a big deal for her and we are all excited about it.

Have a great weekend!

Sorry for haven’t posted in awhile but I’ve been crazy busy as well as the rest of the family. Things are going well I guess considering all things happening around here.

First, Dan had eye surgery last week to fix his vision. He actually had a surgery called PRK , which from my understanding is a bit different than LASIK. He had a hard couple of days with light sensitivity but is doing great now and is back at work. His vision is no 20/40 with NO Glasses. I have to admit it is very wierd looking at him without glasses.. for almost 10 years I’ve seen those glasses on everyday. : ) One step closer to being a Warrant Officer/Helicoptor Pilot.

I hate to even type this but Kiersten is having seizures again. They are not nearly as bad as the ones that she was having when we left Texas (had 11 per day then) but she is having them nonetheless. We took her in for an EEG on the 19th and we are still waiting on the results. Her neurologist seems to think that this round of seizures are different than before and will be controlled easily with medications. I’ll update once we get the results back. Otherwise, Kiersten is doing great. SHe is making all kinds of freinds and really liking school. She has even tried Girl Scouts again and will be a brownie this year. She is so excited about it and so am I!! (COOKIES!!!!) LOL

Becca is doing well in preschool…nothing major to report about Becca. I have to say that it is hard to believe that she is going to be 5 in less than a month. It seems like yesterday we were taking her out of her incubator in the NICU to feed her with ALL of her wires and tubes attached. She’s certainly not a preemie any longer! She’s almost as big as her sister now!

As for me, things are going so well for me business-wise. I took on a couple of new clients and we launched the Work at Home Expo this week and we ROCKED with ticket sales!!! I am so excited about this expo.. you can find out all about it here. I have a couple of new projects on the horizon that are just going to be awesome. I’ll update you all on that once the specifics are worked out.

If you hadn’t heard the new podcast yet and go to PodTalk Divas and take a listen! I do that show with my business partner Wendy Cooper and we  record the shows live so they will always be a HOOT!