Worst blogger ever!

Wow, I didn't even make it with my once a month blogging. Alas..... Tis now May 20th! Just a few more days of school for Baby Bear, I am frantically scurrying around trying to enjoy my last few free Tuesdays/Thursdays before the whole schedule is thrown for a loop as we work around Papa Bears flight schedule. I think we have pretty much decided to stay put. Gas prices are thru the roof, the airline industry is hurting, the real estate market is hurting. The whole idea of moving to NE and buying the cute country store was contingent upon selling our house and walking away with 70-80K. Not even sure it would sell now. And we certainly don't want to just give it away just to move, it wasn't that much of a plan anyway. It would be really hard on PB to commute too. Sooooooo guess we just wait and see! Another always back up plan is to move to the Cape. We could live in The Hellions house over the winter for pretty much free while we tried to sell this place maybe..... I am perfectly content to stay a few more years. I would like to have Baby Bear outta here for junior high however. Doesn't jr high suck for everyone? She is already so high maintenance and sensitive i can't imagine her then. Oy can't go there, one day at a time please!

I have to get going now but I did want to record that Bennett ran away on Mothers Day night in the middle of a rainstorm. She vanished into thin air! She had a good long life 13 years, very old for a golden but it still very bizarre how it all went down. What happened to her? I went to the Humane Society a few times and checked with road patrol, but there was never any sign of her. Bye Bennie Bennie thanks for taking care of us way back when.

Not much different...yet

Well here is my lonely little blog, looks like I am going to be a once a month poster. February is cooking by, we've had lots of snow days and time off from school, squeezed a fun Valentines Day party in at school (I'm Head Room Mom of course!) And a ski trip to Colorado, very fun but very $$. Makes me kind of sad in a way that we are introducing Baby Bear to the sport of Kings, it is so bloody expensive that I almost don't want her to like it because it will forever be the monkey on her back. You have to live near a ski area to really get good or you are always a "tourista", huffing and puffing because you're not used to the altitude, with rental equipment, spending millions of dollars because "hey we only come once a year". Maybe we will live near a ski area someday? No real progress in the moving area. I was not impressed by Denver during the brief time we were there. So brown and dusty, with the brown cloud in full force. Did not make it up to Boulder which is much cuter of course but now all properties start at 1 million! And the old stuff around Denver just looks 1960's trashy whereas I think the old stuff around like Boston/NH/VT/ME looks charming. Papa Bear applied for a travel related job at his old school but we haven't heard anything yet. The thought of switching airlines is so full of holes, the most preposterous thing is exact same job he is doing now with the exact same headaches for HALF THE PAY to start out with! Can you imagine? Why would anyone do that at 43 with a mortgage and bills to pay? He would move up in the future and there is room for growth there that there really isn't here but still! Ack! What to do? Stay here with the same company? But Papa Bear is really burning out, switch industries and start at the bottom? Being a pilot doesn't seem like a transferable skill, and he is extremely stubborn, and unteachable, and used to being in charge, how would he survive in an office?.......oy I'm getting depressed, I better stop now. Guess I will talk to ya next month? Hopefully we'll have a bit more clarity? I would like to set a time frame and have this decided by like May1st? It's pretty hard to live and wonder all the time if we'll be here next year? Also wondering about Baby Bear's school, district is in trouble and she has had some rough rough patches not wanting to go. Is that normal for 2nd grade? If you don't want to keep up with the grind in 2nd grade what the hell will she be like in 7th when the going gets really tough? Yikes.....not doing to good right now, my stomach is starting to hurt. Gotta go!

Changes?

Not doing to well as a regular blogger yet am I? Oh well, I will just dive in. Busy week this week! Work, school and Brownies today. Tomorrow is computer club, dance and then I have Bunco at 6:30. Alot of running around but all fun stuff. We are contemplating a trip to Colorado this weekend for some skiing and to possible look around at where we might want to live. We used to live there, I grew up there mostly. The real estate market looks terrifying, especially after living here. I LOVE our house here, it is the traditional 2 story with a finished basement, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, great neighborhood, 2 lakes, pool, tennis, little club, etc! But Daddy Bear wants a new job. He has been with his present company for 10 years and is ready for a change....perhaps. There are a myriad of issues that go along with this possible change. It is also possible for him to get a new job and commute, not ideal but maybe do-able? Do we really want Baby Bear to grow up/be a teen here? She is all ready too sophisticated for most of her classmates, most a very mid of the road Midwesterners. Maybe that is not a bad thing? People around here seem to really know who they are, and don't seem to spend several teen age/young 20's years searching for the answers that most of us arrive at anyway. They grow up alot faster around here, not uncommon to own homes, have children, and real jobs before age 25. Is that good or bad? Boring and uninspired or safe and secure in who they are and where they are going? Beats me.....if we stay here will Baby Bear ending up marrying someone from here and that will be that? Is that a bad thing? Beats me....gotta go start my day. Until next time!

Very First Entry!

Allrightie---here I go, jumping on the blog bandwagon. I read tons of blogs everyday I guess I might as well start my very own!

Here is our cast of characters around the Bennett household

Mama Bear (me!) 40 and fabulous (hee hee) work M, W, F, and off Tuesdays and Thursdays. I love to play tennis, ski, shop, travel, decorate, clean and putter around my house. I should probably do one of those 100 things about me.

Daddy Bear--43, airline pilot, Dead Head, football freak, from New England.

Baby Bear--8 year old smart, pretty daughter, in 2nd grade, lonely only child.

One Bossy Welsh Corgi, an old stinky golden, and 2 skittish cats.

I will attempt to journal our lives, past, present and future. I am hesitant, can I keep this real? Is there any danger to it? Would anybody I know ever find this? Hmmmmmm