As many of you know, I am a struggling work at home mom that barely makes enough money to buy a pack of pampers each week and my husband has been out of a job since October. Since the tornado came and messed up our new home we are finding that the cash is slowly dwindling. Between the driving back and forth between our new home and existing one, plus the cost of repairs, there just simply isn’t enough money to go around. I know people hate asking for money, but when you are in a hard time like I am you have to do what you have to do.

I am setting up a donation through my paypal in case any of you read this and would like to help us out in any way. To the right in my sidebar is a “make a donation” button that you can click and donate any money you feel would help us in this difficult time. Even if you only donate a dollar, every little bit can help right now and we will forever be greatly appreciative.

Thank you so much for all the emails, and comments of concern. I have really appreciated reading them all. If I had enough time I would respond to each and everyone but right now my time needs to be at the new house cleaning up debris.

This post is a sticky post that will remain at the top of my blog until I gain internet access again. I have scheduled some reviews to auto post on specific days to fill the time till I am back on the computer telling you guys what the latest news is.

Here is a slideshow of some of the photos I have taken of the Tornado Damage that struck my new home on Mother’s Day….

Please keep us all in your prayers. Also, check out my husband’s point of view on the whole tornado thing as well to see more photos of the destruction!

Yes, you read that right. For Mother’s Day all I got was a TORNADO to destroy my future home of residence. My new home, well would have been in a month, was hit by three F2 tornadoes. Just about every single tree is down in the area. Most of the trees took down the power lines, others landed on houses or cars. Only one person has been reported dead so that is a good thing. There is no power and it looks as if there won’t be any power for a week or two. My parents home had so many trees fall down or uproot that you couldn’t even see the grass.

The damage from the tornadoes are unreal. It looks like a photo from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I swear to you, I can not even exaggerate it is that bad. The house that we are supposed to be moving into also took a good bit of damage. There was a deck on the back of the house that is just gone. I huge tree fell on it and in the process ripped a hole in the roof as well as take the whole part of the roof in the back off! I guess this will be delaying our moving plans. We just had the house retiled and new carpets put in.

So I just wanted to give you guys a little bit of a heads up just in case I am unable to post for the rest of the week. I am cleaning up storm damage and will probably be without power for a week. Just about every single power line has been taken down by a tree.

Since we have no power nor internet access, I am on the northside of town at a coffee shop, I have been taking lots of photos of the damage and chaos all over town. I will have them uploaded on flickr whenever I get back home which will be after I clean up our new home in hopes of making it able to be moved into by the end of the month.

Please keep us in your prayers!!!

So some of you may be wondering…Where did she go? Why hasn’t she updated? What is going on? Well the fact of the matter is that I have been dying to update but I have been too gosh darn busy too. You see I spoke before about moving and about how we needed to have a yard sale. Well, I got as much stuff together as I could and just went for it this weekend.

I think we did pretty good, we even sold our COUCH! Yes, seriously. We have no where to sit right now but that is Ok because that just means that I get to buy a new couch when I move. I am so excited, I am leaning toward either brown leather or red!!!

So all proceeds that we made at the yard sale will go towards adding new touches to our new home.

I will back on my regularly scheduled postings on Monday. Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, don’t forget to hug your Mama. I am taking a break from everything and laying in the fat wad of dough I made at my first ever yard sale with dreams of new furniture dancing in my head.

Since I haven’t made a MeToday video in what seems like forever, I opted to make one today because today was a HUGE day for me. I got to get out of the house without a single kidlet or hubby hanging off my arm. Where did I go? To a nice relaxing movie!!! Yes that is right, this Diva went to a movie by herself and it was fabulous!!! Check out the video below for more details….

Baby Mama is a cute funny movie that will make you feel good for going to see it in the end. But if you don’t want to spring on the $5 it takes to go see the matinee then I would definitely rent it when it comes out on DVD to watch on a Friday night while painting your toes and having your hair in rollers.