The News

So Half Price Books has decided to carry my bags. They will start with the DFW area but have a meeting with all of the regional inventory managers and several store managers next week and they will be presented and these folks will get to decide to carry them now or see how they do in this area and carry them later. It is really exciting because the guy I am dealing with at HPB seems to love them and is doing great PR for me. We have established a great rapport and it is nice to have someone believe in the product as much as I do.

Check out what I have done so far...

http://mag2bag.wordpress.com/

So the meeting is the end of next week and he has 20 misc. purses to show them of all types. For the DFW area they have ordered 200! Sooooo... this is all I have been doing. I am keeping up with my other jobs but barely. I have decided to try and get all the grunt work out of the way and make the pieces so that all that is left is the weaving and then have a little party and let (force) all my friends to help me! It has been exciting and I am sure it will all be worth it when I get paid but for now it feels like a beating...

Just a little update

We have been crazy busy around here. I am trying to fill the order for 200 purses and working like crazy on that so not much time to blog. My sweet friend Amy came over almost every night this past week to help me make some progress... I LOVE HER for that! I hope I can repay her in the future. Also, my wonderful husband spent the whole day yesterday folding papers. Its a boring job but we made some headway and I LOVE HIM for that too!

Hunter's team won their game today and he did great. He is really starting to understand basketball which is exciting. Plus he loves it!

Tomorrow Brandon has his game at 4:00 and if they win it will secure their playoff spot. EXCITING!

That's about it. The kids are getting tired of hanging around the house watching me make purses so Brian may take them to Main Event this evening. They need to just get out and it is too hot to go outside! Well, back to work...

Going into the weekend

I can't believe the last time I blogged was last weekend. This week flew by! We went to Six Flags on Tuesday again and it was great. The kids rode everything at least 3 times and there were NO LINES at all. They are loving the season passes they got for Christmas. We are hoping to go back next week. It is a lot of fun when there is no line.

We went to the book store tonight and are going to try and do a rush of stores this weekend. Then next week its to the grindstone with purse making. Any volunteers? I am hoping to crank them out as HPB wants about 200. They will roll them out in the DFW area and then hope to take it nationwide. I am so excited about this opportunity. I can't wait to see the bags in a REAL STORE!

The boys both have early games this weekend which is nice because we have the whole day to do whatever but stinks because we have to get up really early. Brandon plays at 7:45 on Sunday so we will be leaving the house before 7. OUCH!

Not much else is new...

The Weekend Wrap-up

We had a busy weekend that FLEW by! On Saturday Hunter had a game in the morning and they lost for the first time 16-12. It was close and he played the whole game. He got much better in the second half too so at least he is learning. We went to Geneva's birthday party at the waterpark and I had made her a Spongebob purse that was sooo cute! The boys had a good time there and I think it was tooo hot for most people to even go to the waterpark so it was not very crowded. Then we came home showered, changed and went down the street for another party. I let the kids stay and came home to play 1 vs. 100 with Brian.

Today, Brandon had a game this morning and they won 3-1. We FINALLY have all of our baseball kids back to soccer and it was absolutely FABULOUS to have them all back together again. They looked like a totally different team and it was actually a lot of fun to watch. Of course we left there with extras so the boys played all afternoon (indoors, of course).

It seemed to fly by as I am sure this week will too. We are hoping to get to the CAC waterpark, Six Flags (again but this time for the parade) and make some new purses...

Our Anniversary

Twelve years ago today I was standing in a little chapel in the middle of Oklahoma City with a pawn shop ring in my pocket saying I would be with Brian for the rest of my life. The night before he asked me to marry him and I said yes. We looked through the phone book for chapels that needed no notice and had a minister on staff. We had decided to get married the next day and we would stop at nothing to make it happen. We went to the courthouse and got our license, went to the pawn shop and got some rings, went to the clinic and got checked for syphilis (which was apparently the law in order to get married) and went to the chapel to say "I do". It is still one of the greatest days of my life and I can remember every detail like it was yesterday.

There have been times I didn't think we would make it til now but reflecting back today there is no one I would have rather taken this journey with. Neither one of us are perfect but we are perfect for each other. In 12 years we have come to understand what the other needs and expects and we understand that it takes work to fulfill those needs.

I love him more now than I did 12 years ago and I look forward to what the next 12 years will hold. With any luck the kids will have moved out and we will be living in some tropical paradise where it is beautiful all year round! Just dreaming...

Happy 4th!

We don't have big plans. We are going to the corner to watch the fireworks once it gets dark and let the kids sell their glowsticks.

I have had a headache for 8 days now and it is really wearing on me and the rest of the family. I have not been able to get my work done and am struggling to keep the house cleaned and chores done. I am not a pill-popper but it has been bad enough that I have actually taken some medicine. It is not a migraine (which I do get occasionally) but begins at the base of my skull. I am going to take some allergy medicine tomorrow and see if that does anything. Needless to say, I am not much fun right now!