It’s A New Year – Isn’t Life Great?

Part 1 – How Awesome was January?: I am in the process of revamping Da Haven as always. I still haven’t gotten it to the point where I believe the pictures are easily accessed therefore if you click the picture link you’ll see that I am working on changing that and adding all the pictures back to the site. It’s hard to maintain the site when most people are on MySpace, Face book and sites alike. I spend time updating pictures there yet some people don’t go to those sites so I still believe this is the best way to share our family.

January was a life changing month for me! I could not write any words that could express the pride and happiness I felt when Obama became our 44th President!! The picture speaks for itself!

Part 2 – The Holidays: As most of you have already realized we didn’t send out any Holiday cards and/or gifts this year. Please know that we LOVE all of our family and friends dearly however, we made a conscious decision to work towards spending less money during this past holiday season. I don’t have to tell you how rough the economy is right now and we are blessed to be among the people who 1) Hasn’t lost our home and 2) Hasn’t lost our jobs. However, our everyday and Holiday spending habits MUST change for us to remain a float. Our hope is that you all understand and that you also do whatever is necessary for your family to prosper in these next tough years.

Part 3 – Anthony & Toni School News: Anthony & Toni are continuing to be successful in school and in sports! It was just announced today that Anthony is being honored by St. Petersburg College during the month of February as one of the highest achieving African American scholars in Pinellas County. The dedication ceremony in on February 12th as a part of their Black History Celebration. This is a high honor and not one achieved by many. Especially African American BOYS. We are extremely proud of Anthony and his efforts to remain a great student. And you know Toni isn’t letting him out do her! She just brought home her report card today and she received ALL A’s! That’s pretty awesome for a 6th grader in Advance classes! Her goal is to get A’s her entire 6th grade year in which her brother wasn’t able to do. He got a couple of B’s. So keep your fingers crossed for her. She’s trying so hard to achieve it! 3 report cards down and I think 2 to go.

Part 4 – Anthony & Toni Sports News: Anthony decided to try out for competitive ball this spring. It was said, most try out 2-3 times before making a team. Well, you guessed it! He tried out and was invited to a team on his first try! So if you thought he was into baseball before, watch out because the spring is here and he is ready to play. This is more of a serious division.

Toni has decided NOT to play softball this spring. She’s changing every moment in front of my eyes. She says she wants to be a lawyer and with the way she talks, I have to believe her! LOL. She wants to take dance again, swimming and volleyball. And that’s today! Tomorrow I am sure it’ll be something different. She’s becoming such an awesome young lady. But still my baby always.

 

Part 5 – Renovations

Well, they say make do with what you have SO we’ve decided to renovate the house a little. Nothing major, just changing some rooms around. We’re just tired of that little back room as a bedroom. You cannot turn around in there and the closet space sucks or should I say there is NO CLOSETS. We’ve had enough. We have the “handy man” coming by to build a closet and although we could figure it out, who wants the headache when he’s doing it for so cheap! We are also changing the dining room and living room. We’d like to be all done by mid February. Wish us luck!

Carolyn has them working hard for the money LOL

Part 6 – Closing & Misc.: My job is actually going awesome. It was a little bumpy for a minute but I am enjoying working and feeling good about the work I am accomplishing! I think I’ve finally realized, nothing is perfect but a lot of things are tolerable if you search for the good in it and not the bad! Mikey doo is fine, just confused at why the house looks packed up. LOL….Carolyn is Carolyn. She’s so excited to be renovating. I think she was a carpenter in a former life. Or at least a painter (no complaints though cause the house is looking awesome!!!)

I will try not to take so long to update again. Time slips away and I guess that’s why it’s so precious!

Love you all,

Lolita

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