"Mother-in-law" wing make over

Drew and I are in the middle (literally) of "re-doing" the front bedroom of our apartment. Some new news came about on Friday and it sounds like we will be in our apartment for a while longer so Drew and I have decided to do a little decorating work. Drew is also hoping to start a new program in january for nursing so he needs a good place to study and I would like a nice place to do my work/ scrapbooking so today I worked on moving around things in our front bedroom so that we have room for 2 "working" desks and the bed in that room...hopefully with the moving around of some stuff I can open that area up and organize my scrapbooking stuff so that I can actually get some done...hopefully i will post some pictures after the fact...but you know how that goes.

10-10-10

So I have seen people with blogs and posts about the date today...did i miss something? I guess it's just another one of those 8-8-08 things...no big deal here in the Goldsby household...it was just a great lazy, productive Sunday. We went to the 8:30 service at Northside and it was great...Then Drew helped me get some work done for school, brunch at Old Country Store and then back to the apartment and took a wonderful Sunday afternoon nap and worked off and on on school stuff all evening...watched the Amazing Race and now I am getting ready to head to bed and read for a little while...

Good Night all!

Product Review

The NookDrew and I have been looking at the Barnes and Noble bookstore every time we go to Memphis. We go to look at this ebook reader...the B & N version of the Kindle...we have compared and researched for weeks and finally decided to get one for each other for our 1 year wedding anniversary...

Well, while on Fall break in Knoxville I decided to take mom to B & N to LOOK at the nook, we have talked to her about them and she talked about possibly getting one, but she hasn't even held one, so I thought, Ill go show mom...we we walked out of that store with 2 nooks, 2 cases, 2 book lights, 2 extended protection plans, a case for drews (when he gets his), and a pack of screen protectors...I tried to talk mom out of buying one for me, but she bought me one anyways (THANKS MOM!!!)

I have spent the last few days reading City of Ember...it's WONDERFUL!!! The nook is VERY easy to use and easy to read.

My only complaints:
*Battery life-I am thinking it's because it was new and didn't have a 100% charge, and we had the wifi on (becuase it took us a while to figure out how to turn it off...) but hopefully after charing it fully and having the "airplane mode on" the battery life will last MUCH longer!
*free ebooks section on B & N online section sucks...well it sucks for me, I don't like the "trashy" romance novels...

All in all, I can't wait to get Drew's for him for our anniversary... I LOVE IT!!!

Fall Break

It's so hard to believe that it's already time for Fall Break...and the fact that Fall Break is already 1/2 over with...This school year is going by sooo fast it's very difficult for me to stop and think, my time with my first set of 1st graders is 1/4 over with!!
*Drewby and I left right after school-well about 30 minutes after I left school...we drove pretty much straight through, made it through Nashville-at 5:00-in about 25 minutes-I was amazed! We ended up hitting traffic after Nashville, near Lebonnon...*we made it to Crossville after the rents headed back to Mama J.O.'s so we missed the 1st night of the reunion but it was nice to get there and just hang out at the house.
*Saturday was the reunion-oh boy, that was fun. It was pirate themed this year and that was entertaining. they had lots of games and some very very good bbq for lunch!
*we headed out to the "deer camp" after that and walked through the camp and mom and I had some WONDERFUL times remembering our times in there with Papa...oh boy, how I miss him. We picked up some things to remind us of that place, not that we would ever forget...


*Drewby and Dad left Sunday morning and mama j.o., mom, and i headed out for an adventure...we headed towards knoxville via highway 70...drew and i did this drive back in the summer when we went on our camping trip and it was beautiful and fun...turns out mama j.o. used to "hang out" at several of the places that drew and i loved so much...
*the pictures above are at Ozone Falls...drew and i found this and it turns out that mama j.o. used to walk here from crab orchard and play down at the bottom of the falls...so cool!*My fall break has been one of the best...spent some great time with my mom, made some great memories with these 2 women in the picture with me...I am beyond blessed and could not be more greatful as we get closer to thanksgiving!