I'm homeless

[MapleMomma]

Y'all. I'm homeless. I've been cheating on you with the world of Facebook. But it's large and intimidating and I feel lonely without my small group? Forgive me please?

And tell me what's new in your world.

[MapleMe]

Hey Maple2! Are you literally or figuratively homeless?

Life is slow on this board. But my life is crazy busy. I'm in the process of moving my bakery, which appears to be a process of herding ducks and getting my cats in a row, while I try to make sure that my family knows that I still love them.

What's happening in your world?

[MapleMomma]

Figuratively homeless, as in I've lost my Internet home! Haha.

We finally wrapped up our home addition/remodel project. It feels so good to have the extra space.

I got my massage license last fall and have been loving my new job (2 mornings a week).

And our baby boy, C, is due in 6 weeks! Feels like time is flying.

I've loved seeing the updates on your new bakery location and all the new clients. I recently ran out of my corn corn whiskey and cried a little.

[dramaphile]

You dirty, cheating, ho!! No really, I keep venturing into Parenting, which is a strange and fascinating place, so I understand. Welcome back, anyways

[Stringy]

Hey maple2! Congrats on almost time for a new baby! As you can see, this place is pretty dead. Though today seems abnormally slow.

Same old round and round for me...

[sarenu]

Trying to reconcile an account that hasn't been looked at in over 5 years when our systems went live.

So fun times.

[pbandj714]

Hi Maple2!

I'm just generally a chicken with my head cut off anymore. I try to pop in when I can, but I've been trying to focus on my time-management at work.

[CurlieWhirlie]

Hey! Nothing new here except M is out of diapers so I have no more babies. Sadface. Everything else in my life is the same. I'm completely obsessed with politics, it's like a gruesome car accident I can't look away from.

[piccyami]

Hi maple2!

My ability to form coherent thoughts is pretty nonexistent these days, so I'm here, but more reading than posting.

[Stringy]

I'm loling at @milano, in her newborn bliss while piccyami, pbandj714, and me cant see straight with our old, non sleeping babies. Granted you guys have 2 each...

[rugger]

Hey maple 2! Life here is busy. A is out of diapers during the day, but otherwise, we're bouncing between preschool and swim lessons and the grocery store.
I'm on my way to becoming a dog trainer, which is awesome! I'm going to classes twice a week and leaning a ton.

[Crisco Salad]

Hey Maple2! I saw you peen one of my posts the other day and almost called you out! Things are crazy here, I have a huge conference coming up in 2.5 weeks. We are also planning a move back to MI.

[ovenrack]

Hi mapledeux. I got baby chickens.

[DGM]

Who are you?

[freezorburn]

Great to hear from you, M2!

[brandiewine11]

Hi M2!

Glad to see you here! Stick around :-)

I've got about 12 weeks to go until baby boy #2 arrives. Otherwise not much new going on at all.

[MapleMomma]

Apr 5, 2017 15:19:19 GMT -5 rugger said:

Hey maple 2! Life here is busy. A is out of diapers during the day, but otherwise, we're bouncing between preschool and swim lessons and the grocery store.
I'm on my way to becoming a dog trainer, which is awesome! I'm going to classes twice a week and leaning a ton.

Dog Training! How cool. Are you hoping to make a FT career of it? I'd be thrilled if I could just get my lab to stop chasing cars, but generally he's a good dog.

[MapleMomma]

Apr 5, 2017 14:28:41 GMT -5 CurlieWhirlie said:

Hey! Nothing new here except M is out of diapers so I have no more babies. Sadface. Everything else in my life is the same. I'm completely obsessed with politics, it's like a gruesome car accident I can't look away from.

I hate politics. So so much. Kudos to you

[MapleMomma]

Apr 5, 2017 15:24:14 GMT -5 Crisco Salad said:

Hey Maple2! I saw you peen one of my posts the other day and almost called you out! Things are crazy here, I have a huge conference coming up in 2.5 weeks. We are also planning a move back to MI.

Heck yes I peened your post. Twins and moving back to MI? You've got some awesome stuff going on. Where is MI are you hoping to move?

[MapleMomma]

Apr 5, 2017 16:03:33 GMT -5 DGM said:

Who are you?

shut up.

[MapleMomma]

Apr 5, 2017 19:39:37 GMT -5 brandiewine11 said:

Hi M2!

Glad to see you here! Stick around :-)

I've got about 12 weeks to go until baby boy #2 arrives. Otherwise not much new going on at all.

Do you have a name picked out yet?

[brandiewine11]

Apr 5, 2017 20:24:19 GMT -5 MapleMomma said:

Apr 5, 2017 19:39:37 GMT -5 brandiewine11 said:

Hi M2!

Glad to see you here! Stick around :-)

I've got about 12 weeks to go until baby boy #2 arrives. Otherwise not much new going on at all.

Do you have a name picked out yet?

Nope. We have a list of possibilities. Nothing is at the top yet. Names are hard.

We will likely have 2-3 choices and decide after he's born, like we did with R. Most of the top choices so far are super traditional family names.

How about you?

[MapleMomma]

Apr 6, 2017 9:03:55 GMT -5 brandiewine11 said:

Apr 5, 2017 20:24:19 GMT -5 MapleMomma said:

Do you have a name picked out yet?

Nope. We have a list of possibilities. Nothing is at the top yet. Names are hard.

We will likely have 2-3 choices and decide after he's born, like we did with R. Most of the top choices so far are super traditional family names.

How about you?

Yeah, we had a girl and boy name picked before we even found out.

Colten Walter will be his name.

[TJ]

Yo.

[ovenrack]

PS I'm really glad you're not ACTUALLY physically homeless.

[mimsy]

I've been cheating with tinychat and apps.
I will not cast a stone in your direction.

[MapleMe]

Apr 6, 2017 13:16:07 GMT -5 ovenrack said:

PS I'm really glad you're not ACTUALLY physically homeless.

But wouldn't the story be crazy to hear?

[MapleMomma]

Apr 6, 2017 13:41:08 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

Apr 6, 2017 13:16:07 GMT -5 ovenrack said:

PS I'm really glad you're not ACTUALLY physically homeless.

But wouldn't the story be crazy to hear?

It almost happened 6 weeks ago though! It was not cool. But is a story.

So my FIL has never gotten along with his mother because she was the type that thought it was okay to play favorites with her kids. Well, in 2005, he bought the family farm (2 homes, all thelse outbuildings, 320 acres) from his mom. It was a very open process in which he paid his brothers and his mom money. His mom maintained rights to the property until her death. All kinda weird to me, but basically instant complete ownership upon her death.

And since then DH bought the older original farm house on the property from his dad as well as the land we use for buildings we've put up, like the new barn and workshop, and the cattle pasture. We completely renovated the old house and estimate we've spent 500k in repairs/updates to the farm property.

Well the old lady died. Basically because J gave her the flu. Felt really guilty about that, but we did warn her.

Turns out the witch somehow managed to quick claim deed the property (that everyone knew she didn't own!! We insured it, paid the taxes, etc) over to two of her other grandkids.

We were ticked. Scared. A whole ball of emotions.

But they signed the property back to us.

[MapleMe]

Apr 6, 2017 14:16:56 GMT -5 MapleMomma said:

Apr 6, 2017 13:41:08 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

But wouldn't the story be crazy to hear?

It almost happened 6 weeks ago though! It was not cool. But is a story.

So my FIL has never gotten along with his mother because she was the type that thought it was okay to play favorites with her kids. Well, in 2005, he bought the family farm (2 homes, all thelse outbuildings, 320 acres) from his mom. It was a very open process in which he paid his brothers and his mom money. His mom maintained rights to the property until her death. All kinda weird to me, but basically instant complete ownership upon her death.

And since then DH bought the older original farm house on the property from his dad as well as the land we use for buildings we've put up, like the new barn and workshop, and the cattle pasture. We completely renovated the old house and estimate we've spent 500k in repairs/updates to the farm property.

Well the old lady died. Basically because J gave her the flu. Felt really guilty about that, but we did warn her.

Turns out the witch somehow managed to quick claim deed the property (that everyone knew she didn't own!! We insured it, paid the taxes, etc) over to two of her other grandkids.

We were ticked. Scared. A whole ball of emotions.

But they signed the property back to us.

Whoa. That is pretty damn insane. I'm glad that they were more rational than your GMIL.

[MapleMomma]

Apr 6, 2017 14:40:33 GMT -5 MapleMe said:

Apr 6, 2017 14:16:56 GMT -5 MapleMomma said:

It almost happened 6 weeks ago though! It was not cool. But is a story.

So my FIL has never gotten along with his mother because she was the type that thought it was okay to play favorites with her kids. Well, in 2005, he bought the family farm (2 homes, all thelse outbuildings, 320 acres) from his mom. It was a very open process in which he paid his brothers and his mom money. His mom maintained rights to the property until her death. All kinda weird to me, but basically instant complete ownership upon her death.

And since then DH bought the older original farm house on the property from his dad as well as the land we use for buildings we've put up, like the new barn and workshop, and the cattle pasture. We completely renovated the old house and estimate we've spent 500k in repairs/updates to the farm property.

Well the old lady died. Basically because J gave her the flu. Felt really guilty about that, but we did warn her.

Turns out the witch somehow managed to quick claim deed the property (that everyone knew she didn't own!! We insured it, paid the taxes, etc) over to two of her other grandkids.

We were ticked. Scared. A whole ball of emotions.

But they signed the property back to us.

Whoa. That is pretty damn insane. I'm glad that they were more rational than your GMIL.

They were more rational, but I think in the end we would have won in court anyhow.

Still I'm glad to have the whole thing behind us.