Babysitting and Ovens

At this exact moment in time, 5:46pm to be exact, my husband and a friend named Jason are installing my new oven after 4 months of waiting. That's right, I have had no oven for birthdays, Easter, and late night cookie cravings. It has been a sad, long, tale which has made me seriously question whether home warranty companies are at all honest. The oven was the start of a long haul of problems we have had with the house this year. First the lights flickered eerily one night and every socket blew. Luckily we have most things hooked up to a strip so our computer, and other such electrical doohickeys were safe but the surge killed the oven control panel. We had the electric wires looked at and fixed. This electrical problem was quickly followed by a slab leak, shower pan leak, tiles coming off in the bathroom, and floor repairs. At this moment we have one working shower and since we rented out the master bedroom this summer we can't officially use it. Oh the joys of home ownership. At least we get to do some remodeling. I have lots of ideas :)


Another happy event today was Eliora getting her first real babysitting job. This is not to say she has not babysat TONS in the past but today is the first for a job that does not involve family members. She packed a cute little bag with toys, asked me lots of questions about babysitting etiquette, and walked into the house with dreams of future jobs that she is hoping will lead to a checking account to someday buy a car. She is so responsible and getting so big it kind of makes me sad......(of course, she was responsible and awesome enough at the age of 2 she probably could have babysat).

The Start of a New Blog

It has been over a year since posting to Geobobbies and since then it looks like they will no longer let me post so to start afresh here it is....introducing, Geobobbies2! Ready to start posting memories and funny moments and hopefully a few throwback Thursdays (or Mondays, or whatever day) to catch up on the last year. 

As a tidbit for today - 
Ben and I were just driving back from HEB to get ice cream for the kids for helping clean out the garage today. As we were driving Ben asked if the shadows from the electric poles were forming shapes of arches or v's. We had just started listening to Hitchhikers Guide on audio and the question reminded me of a part where he describes the moment where the picture of a vase turns into two faces. I couldn't remember the book that describes that scene though and this conversation ensued.

Tonia - "That reminds me of that book, with the part in it.....
Ben - "You mean Hitchhiker"
Tonia - "Yeah, with that part"
Ben - "Yeah, I know which one you mean"

Just then Sadie, who was sitting in the back commented that we were really in sync to which I decided to high five and Ben decided to fist bump to show our in sync-ness. Oh yes, we are cool :)