Its Been A While!

This may be my only post for the month of August! I have been super busy! Today I left work after lunch with a migraine. Felt like someone was scrambling my brains like eggs. Luckily I had FMLA paperwork on file- just have to see if it gets approved. If its not better in the AM, I'm staying home. The doctor was supposed to call in a prescription for me but never did before CVS closed. Ugh. OK! Let's update!
July 31, hubby left for Cali. It wasn't too bad. The girls definitely pitched in for me. They watched the little ones while I was working since school hadn't started up yet. Saved us tons of money which I in turn was able to use for them to get their hair done and shop for school. Now that we have moved, the house payment is 300.00 more than before each month and the utilites have been eating us alive! My electric bill was almost 500.00 2 months in a row! Anyway, I had to trust them and they did a great job. Thank goodness I still live so close to work cus I was able to take them home lunch each day and make it back to work in an hour. I took the pool down after hubby left too. Just got the last water bill that included pool usage and it was almost 200.00. I added concession to my phone bill for the first time ever in the 12 years I have worked for the company- bill was 95.00 when without concession, it was 55.00. The package with the same features is cheaper for a non-employee! Let me get off my rant & rave box...
My Mom came over and we had a garage sale the first weekend after hubby left. It was mostly clothes and baby items like car seats, etc. I didn't make a whole lot but I was going to donate it otherwise, so I'm not disappointed. It was an experience. Seemed like more effort than what it was worth. Probably won't be doing that again.
I was able to get Cici enrolled in high school. A boy offered to carry the books she was assigned. Too funny! I'm not ready for this. I'm glad in a way that my girls are shy wall flowers. Cici got her hair colored with red peek-a-boo highlights. She so pretty and I hope she doesn't struggle this year. I was also able to get the twins and Bruiser enrolled in PreK3 & PreK. They all 3 have different teachers. They go to daycare in the AM & the daycare drops them off at "big school"(as they call it) & picks them (and Princess, who is at our area's home school in 1st grade) until I get off work.
L tried out for volleyball in the AMs the first week of school. She was so disappointed when she learned she didn't make the team but she is looking forward to trying out for basketball and track/cross country later in the year. Fingers are crossed for her.
I haven't been able to enroll in school yet. Want to wait til hubby gets home so we can do this together. I was able to go see him in Cali. I flew out on 8/11 in the AM. Rented a car and drove up the Pacific Coast Highway. Stopped on the beach, watched the surfers, had lunch. Just me and the ocean for a day. Nothing like it. Met up with hubby that evening after his class. He surprised me with a room @ the Embassy Suites Mandalay beach where we stayed after his first deployment demobilization. It was sort of our honeymoon since we never got one. We had gotten married in Vegas right before deployment. On Friday, I hung out again while he was in class. We got to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which was very good. We went to see Final Destination in IMAX 3D another night. It was my first IMAX movie and it was amazing. We went to eat at the Whale's Tail one night on the Channel Islands Harbor/Marina. Another night we ate Thai food for the first time. I had my first taste of Sake. I really liked the whole experience. On Saturday we drove around Beverly Hills, Hollywood and LA. The homeless people were crazy! My mom stayed with the kids for me. I flew back home Monday AM and had to be back at work Tuesday but it was a wonderful 4 days away from home.
Everyone seems to be enjoying school. Cici is taking French and Journalism, among other things. Those are the 2 classes she talks about the most. L has homework out the wazoo each night but I think she likes her classes, especially French.
I really can't think of anything else right now. Just can't wait for my hubby to get home. I really miss him.