The Oldfield 6

Well it seems that I will be writting here maybe once a week if time allows.

 From my last post after over $300 in repairs my truck is back in the driveway, did they fix it, not necessarily. They checked it and found things wrong and probably the reason why it wouldn’t start but no idea why it stopped in the first place. D’Arcy took out the alarm system this weekend and I have started cleaning it out. I figure by the mid to end of May I will be looking for a new vehicle full force. I just can’t trust my truck anymore and I am terrified that it will stop on a highway somewhere and I will have 2 or 4 of the kids with and no way to get home.

D’Arcy wants to get another Suburban but even though I don’t like mini vans I think that is what I am leaning strongly towards. He likes the truck idea and the storage room and such and so do I but I don’t think we will be able to afford the gas to go any where it by summer. So, for at least the next few years I will be driving a mini van. So I think my blog over the next few weeks will be about the joy of car shopping and picking out just the right one for me. One positive thing is that we have a family friend who owns a used car dealership so he will be able to get me whatever I want for my price once I decide what I want.

So I will keep you all posted on my joys and down falls as I look for a vehicle…. Test drives start next weekend I hope…

Ok so those of you who are reading this and don’t know what has been going on in my family I will give you a quick update… nothing serious just fustrating..

About January I decided that my summer family holidays was going to be a 2week trip down east. I had been there as a child but no one else in my family had every been east, we were going to hit NB, PEI, and NS. Well about 4 weeks ago D’Arcy’s truck started to die so as of 3 wks ago he decided to buy a new vehicle, cleaning out our savings at the time and my money back up for the holidays. I told the kids weren’t going to be able to go out east over the summer but secrelty I was planning and hoping to still go. Then 2wks ago D’Arcy decided to except a new job at a different plant meaning he most likely wouldn’t be able to get all the holidays paid for the summer. So then I decided to just do something fun closer that wouldn’t require much travel time. Now the whole time this was going on with him my truck(the only vehicle to fit the whole family) had also been to the garage due to stalling problems…

The newest issue has now araised, my truck stalled out again this time I was going about 80 or so km and it just died no power brakes or steering , I was just happy to not end up in the ditch and get it to the side of the road. I am know totally frustarted with my truck and do not trust it at all, I have been lucky to not have any kids in the truck when ever  this has happened but I have a feeling my luck is running thin. Just talked to the garage and they hope they can find something this time around but no gaurintee but it looks I will be shopping for a new vehicle that can seat 6 or more. And since we just bought a car for D’Arcy I don’t think I will be getting another Suburban since it isn’t really in the budget. Looks like I will be looking at a dreaded mini van. I know alot of people have them and love them but I loved my big truck and the fact I could haul stuff with it and carry everything we needed for camping including family and the dog. But I am slowly excepting the fact I need a new vehicle and soon which will be a van.

 Okay that is my complaint now to get on with things of the day….. 

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Well I don’t think I have alot to say about the whole night that the pictures don’t tell.

The night started as I rushed to get dinner done  for the family, showered, dressed and attempted to tidy the house since we had company coming the next day. Well I go it all done and D’Arcy arrived home at 4:58, I asked he be home by 5:00pm. Then I tried to sit back and relax and waited for my ride and of course the minuite I walked away from the door guess who showed up….. And we were off to find Shelley

 After a quick drop off of Myles and Mandy, and of course we picked up Shelley when we dropped off the others, it was then off to the resturant to meet up with Cara, who was waiting on us.  At the resturant we expected to have to look a little but there at the front waiting on a table was our red headed friend, you couldn’t miss her, although Titia didn’t see her right away…

Dinner was great, food was wonderful, the drinks went down easy and the company was easy. We all chatted like old friends, about families, friends and of course CPO. The time flew by and if it wasn’t for Shelley commenting about the kids who knows when we would have gotten up from the table. After some hugs goodbye and a few more minuites of conversation we bid Cara a farewell, her hotel was right next to the resturant, and the rest of us headed off to pick up kids and drop off everyone at home. 

But I have to say that it was wonderful to get to met Cara and put a person to the name in realy life. I can’t wait for our next get together, I so wish I was heading East this summer I would love to meet more of you all

Now that my house is quite and everyone is in bed I am going to try and right a little bite and get a good start to this blogging thing.

As I mentioned in my last post, Monday nights are my coffee nights with my CPO girls. Just over a year ago (Dec 2006) I went to a playdate that was planned on CPO and met up with a bunch of different women. Out of that playdate 4 of us became really close, lets see if I can remember their CPO names, AidenLucy(she changed it recently), AndreaM, Aislinsmommy and me Momof4boys, we were all SAHM or on Mat leave so we got together once or twice a week for playdates with our little ones. Slowly though some started to go back to work and playdates got further apart but events still did happen and we got together for fun stuff like Easter parties, these were also with other Moms from CPO such as MMummy, AmberV, Bratmom and I can’t remember everyone elses name on CPO, oh while. Anyway when the summer of 2007 came to a close the 4 original ladies decided we needed a set night out just us to get away from home and life and that is when Coffee Night started on a regular basis. As of December we added another CPO Mom (her name is too hard to remember this late), so now we are 5, we have our ups and downs but we are women after all but we try to put everything aside to sit and just relax for a few hours every Monday night. Once AidenLucy gets back from training for work I will try and get a picture of all of us to post here….. Although on a sad note out of the 5 women I am the only one that is a SAHM, as of today, AidenLucy went back to work so I am now on the search for some new playdate friends for during the week…