This is an inspirational message emailed to me this morning and I want to share it with all of my readers:
Good Morning.
Here is a great thought for the day:
At a Special Olympics track meet, a young girl had just won the 50-yard dash and was jumping up and down all excited.
She yelled out to her parents, "Look, Mom and Dad, I won!"
Her parents instantly burst into tears.
At the awards ceremony, the young girl proudly stood there as a medal was placed around her neck.
Then she ran over to her parents, who were crying now even more than before.
The three of them hugged... as the parents kept crying.
A Special Olympics official who had watched this whole scene became concerned and went over to the parents and said, "Excuse me, is there anything wrong?"
Through her tears, the mother said, "No, nothing's wrong. Everything's right... We just heard our daughter speak for the first time."
Have a wonderful day.
Who can have a bad day after reading this? Thank you Barbara with London Properties for sending this to me so I can share it with my readers as well.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Great Weekend
What a great weekend it has been. Saturday Steven had his new friend Killian over for a sleepover and it was big fun. Today Scott and I each sat a different open house while Steven hung out at his friends house. I was able to set an appointment with one family that came to my open house today for Friday. If all goes well we will list their home and sell them their move-up home. We decided to celebrate a great weekend with a great dinner at Red Lobster. It has been a long time since we have gone there. I enjoyed the heck out of it and Steven had a great time cracking open the crab legs he ordered.
Steven saw a new psycologist this past Friday and she is very unique but in a good way. She is totally child focused and she actually read the massive paperwork I filled out. She has decided that Steven does not learn through lecture (duh) so she is going to teach through play. Although it sounds and looks very childish ( like 2-4 years old) he actually responded to it. She only works 1:00pm - 9:00pm so I am glad she will get to work with him when his meds. have worn off and she can see the disrepectful/out of control side of his condition. The Drs. brother has Asperger Syndrom and she has many techniques to try. I am looking forward to it as I do not want to increase his meds again.
Steven has had a very sore throat the last day and 1/2 so I will be calling our Dr. at 8:30 in the morning t0 get him in an emergency appointment in the afternoon. He doesn't have a fever so I don't think it is strep....but ya never can tell. This will actually be the first time he has had to go to the Dr. for an issue since we moved here 2 years ago.
We finally have a hair appt with my stylist on Tuesday morning. I had to cancel the last one when I injured my wrist and had to go to the Dr. two weeks ago. My hair is driving me nuts. I cut it short and now that it has grown out it feels weird especially when I get hot and sweaty. Speaking of which...we set a record here yesterday we reached 110 degrees. I had no idea cause I never left the house. Today however the open house I sat at did not have any power and todays temps were in the low 100's. Not cool at all. Anyway enough about sweat and heat.
Time to do a little research.
Steven saw a new psycologist this past Friday and she is very unique but in a good way. She is totally child focused and she actually read the massive paperwork I filled out. She has decided that Steven does not learn through lecture (duh) so she is going to teach through play. Although it sounds and looks very childish ( like 2-4 years old) he actually responded to it. She only works 1:00pm - 9:00pm so I am glad she will get to work with him when his meds. have worn off and she can see the disrepectful/out of control side of his condition. The Drs. brother has Asperger Syndrom and she has many techniques to try. I am looking forward to it as I do not want to increase his meds again.
Steven has had a very sore throat the last day and 1/2 so I will be calling our Dr. at 8:30 in the morning t0 get him in an emergency appointment in the afternoon. He doesn't have a fever so I don't think it is strep....but ya never can tell. This will actually be the first time he has had to go to the Dr. for an issue since we moved here 2 years ago.
We finally have a hair appt with my stylist on Tuesday morning. I had to cancel the last one when I injured my wrist and had to go to the Dr. two weeks ago. My hair is driving me nuts. I cut it short and now that it has grown out it feels weird especially when I get hot and sweaty. Speaking of which...we set a record here yesterday we reached 110 degrees. I had no idea cause I never left the house. Today however the open house I sat at did not have any power and todays temps were in the low 100's. Not cool at all. Anyway enough about sweat and heat.
Time to do a little research.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Since I have a few minutes
Wow it has been a very long time since I have posted the happenings in our neck of the woods.
I am sitting at the office waiting for some clients to come in and sign a purchase contract and the boys are at home doing laundry and making dinner, so I am taking advantage of the peace and quiet to update the eager world on the happenings of our lives.
We will start with the cats. They are crazy teenagers right now, causing mischief and distruction daily. Steven taught one of them to play catch and it is very intertaining to watch and she will include everyone in the game. Good thing I gave mom a heads up when she and dad came to visit the last two weeks. They are little sweeties though and they add alot to the family. Steven carts them around all over the place and they put up with it so all is good.
Steven has officially completed the 2nd grade and is a little apprehensive about starting 3rd grade in a new school. One good thing is that we met a new family in the neighborhood and both of the children will be attending the same school. The kids have hit it off real well and Steven will be having his new friend over on Saturday for a sleep over. I see pizza, popcorn, candy, and movies in our future. Wooohooo.
Work has been keeping us busy, we sold two homes last week and if all goes well the offer I am getting signed tonight will be accepted by Monday. Our goal is to close 3 escrows each month. Not an easy task I tell ya. One of the homes we sold last week will close in December so I am excited that one is down for that month. We have worked with some really great people and have built wonderful friendships. My Christmas Card List is growing by leaps and bounds.
The weather has been on the hot side so far this month. We have been hovering during the day between 95-104 degrees. We have the big Tulare County Association of Realtors Picnic tomorrow evening and I am really looking forward to it. Last year it was not as hot as it is now, but man it was fun. All you can eat food, sno-cones, cotton candy, soda, and popcorn. They also have lots of blow up stuff and water contraptions for the kids. hmmmm I must be getting hungry cause I really focused on the food didn't I?
Mom and Dad were here for a few weeks and it was great !! We got to see dad on his birthday and Father's Day. Steven spent a week with mom and dad at the coast and had a great time. He can't wait until August so he can spend more time with them.
My clients just pulled into the parking lot so .........back to work I go.
I am sitting at the office waiting for some clients to come in and sign a purchase contract and the boys are at home doing laundry and making dinner, so I am taking advantage of the peace and quiet to update the eager world on the happenings of our lives.
We will start with the cats. They are crazy teenagers right now, causing mischief and distruction daily. Steven taught one of them to play catch and it is very intertaining to watch and she will include everyone in the game. Good thing I gave mom a heads up when she and dad came to visit the last two weeks. They are little sweeties though and they add alot to the family. Steven carts them around all over the place and they put up with it so all is good.
Steven has officially completed the 2nd grade and is a little apprehensive about starting 3rd grade in a new school. One good thing is that we met a new family in the neighborhood and both of the children will be attending the same school. The kids have hit it off real well and Steven will be having his new friend over on Saturday for a sleep over. I see pizza, popcorn, candy, and movies in our future. Wooohooo.
Work has been keeping us busy, we sold two homes last week and if all goes well the offer I am getting signed tonight will be accepted by Monday. Our goal is to close 3 escrows each month. Not an easy task I tell ya. One of the homes we sold last week will close in December so I am excited that one is down for that month. We have worked with some really great people and have built wonderful friendships. My Christmas Card List is growing by leaps and bounds.
The weather has been on the hot side so far this month. We have been hovering during the day between 95-104 degrees. We have the big Tulare County Association of Realtors Picnic tomorrow evening and I am really looking forward to it. Last year it was not as hot as it is now, but man it was fun. All you can eat food, sno-cones, cotton candy, soda, and popcorn. They also have lots of blow up stuff and water contraptions for the kids. hmmmm I must be getting hungry cause I really focused on the food didn't I?
Mom and Dad were here for a few weeks and it was great !! We got to see dad on his birthday and Father's Day. Steven spent a week with mom and dad at the coast and had a great time. He can't wait until August so he can spend more time with them.
My clients just pulled into the parking lot so .........back to work I go.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Million Dollar Home Anyone?
I must say again, I Love Keller Williams. We have been learning and growing like crazy people. They are so happy with our eagerness to learn and practice what we learn, that we have been asked to sit a Million Dollar open house. What's so cool about this you ask?....Well the developer is building 32 Million Dollar + homes in the gated community and we can sell any/or all of them. What else is cool you ask....well let me just tell you...... Say someone comes in to check out the home and they then realize that it a little out of their financial comfort zone (duh) then we can continue our relationship with the client and sell them any home we want. woohoo.Traditionaly in a "development" the client stays with the developer. This developer is so smart because he selected only our office to to work with and by letting us keep the client, he doesn't have to hire and train staff to sit the development and we have a reputation for being highly educated and professional so it looks like a Win Win to me.We get today, Monday, next Saturday and Sunday.
This next three days will be in the low 70's which will be perfect, however it could go either way, it is a holiday weekend and people are usually out of town at a lake or campground, however, with the price of gas I think more people will be staying local.
Cross you fingers.
This next three days will be in the low 70's which will be perfect, however it could go either way, it is a holiday weekend and people are usually out of town at a lake or campground, however, with the price of gas I think more people will be staying local.
Cross you fingers.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Moving on
Well we did it. We said farewell to our C21 family and hello to our Keller Williams family. It was a very hard decision , but it is the right one for our financial goals and success in this industry. We cleaned out our office and gave our hugs and said our see ya laters today. I am very excited to get started in our new office. I am hoping that all of our office furniture has been put in place so we can dive right in and get started.
Scott is taking us on a suprise get away this weekend since we closed a huge escrow today. Between the packing, moving, unpacking, and working our buns off we have not had a chance to take well deserved family bonding weekend.
The weather is going to be in the 90's Saturday in a weird warming pattern. We are normally mid 70's this time of year. I think we are going to blow up the pool that the Easter Bunny brought us and try it out tomorrow before we leave town.
Our not so little kitties are full of trouble but cute as heck so it's hard to be mad at them for very long.
Well I better go pack for our weekend.
Scott is taking us on a suprise get away this weekend since we closed a huge escrow today. Between the packing, moving, unpacking, and working our buns off we have not had a chance to take well deserved family bonding weekend.
The weather is going to be in the 90's Saturday in a weird warming pattern. We are normally mid 70's this time of year. I think we are going to blow up the pool that the Easter Bunny brought us and try it out tomorrow before we leave town.
Our not so little kitties are full of trouble but cute as heck so it's hard to be mad at them for very long.
Well I better go pack for our weekend.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Frolicking
I just couldn't resist posting this silly video of Scott frolicking throught the spring air with the mini. Be sure to press the play button twice.
Mini Horses
This past Sunday our clients invited us to bring Steven out to their horse ranch for some fun. We had a fantastic time with all of the animals and Steven over came his fear of horses somewhat. We had the opportunity to take the reins of one pretty little gal...take a look....
These two horses below were brought to learn how to pull a cart and take direction from the driver. It was great to see. These two guys were very very playful....kinda like large kittens Steven said.
This hen is sitting on eggs and she let our client walk right up to pet her. In the picture below the horse is actually black, because they blanket the horse during the winter months the hair turned white. As we were petting her we were pulling out chunks of white hair revealing the shiny black coat beneath. Very cool.
A trainer was on site training riders how to drive carts. Our client said that they will teach Steven if he is interested when we go back.
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