will we survive?

no directv for a little while.  yep, you read that correctly and this really is me you are talking to.  well, reading about it guess.  in drastic efforts to get out of debt and pay q's medical bills (the stacks and stacks of them), d and i have decided that other "needs" to disappear so we can focus our money in other areas.  i am also looking for a part time job to use solely for debt payoffs.  our goal is to be debt free by the time d gets a better job and we move again.  going along with that, i am going through things.  took another box of clothes to a consignment store and got $30 and a new pair of shorts for m.  what they didn't want i dropped off at the goodwill and it felt good.  i need to take my maternity clothes into the consignment store.  i didn't wear half of them this time so, i need to get rid of them.  my next big project is my scraproom.  i am going to be sending happymail to some people, making up little kits of all sorts and sell them on etsy and trash the rest of what is left.  minus the stuff that i will use still of course.  want to find a few craft shows in the area to maybe make some stuff for and see if i can sell anything.  it wouldn't get any better than creating things that people love and get paid for it.  have made a couple baby books for someone in the past.  hoping to find the right outlet to get my stuff out there to sell.  suggestions welcome.  i listed a letterpress starter kit with some extras here in my first attempts at clearing out this room.  it is seriously ridiculous how much stuff i have crammed in here!  i would show you a pic, but it is a little embarrassing.  dave ramsey would be proud.  except i am keeping my car which has a payment, but i can't see getting rid of it at this point like he would tell me to do.  all this means no extras, no little trips, no eating out, no rolos (gasp!) and time away from home.  the hardest will be missing time with my boys, but this i keep telling myself this is temporary and it will make their life better in the end and the end won't be far away.  thank you to those who have supported us and support our "new" life of nothingness for a little while! :)  we love ya.  (oh and i'll let you know when there is stuff in my store and you can go buy it all.  that would be great.)

more exciting news...my boys had their pictures taken with Nick the bunny yesterday.  here are a few of those pictures along with some from m's birthday that blogger wouldn't let me post last time.

ps.  thank goodness for free internet or i think i would seriously die.

yes, i really did make this cake along with my mama. 

m has super mario nicknames for all of us so, i made shirts for the party.  he loved them.  :)

teaching his little brother well.

"what?!?  you've gotta be kidding me!"

q and nick in serious discussion

to match a pic we have of m when he was a baby.  i'll post it sometime soon.

s & q.  it doesn't get much better.

at first glance this is another little m, too.  cuteness for sure.