After the sale...

Well, we didn't do too bad at the sale. We had a large cabinet we used to store food in that we got rid of, but mostly just clothes and misc items. It's just amazing to me how much stuff we have in our house. I did reserve a container full of clothes (rather than take them to Goodwill) and will take them to the girls old elementary school. The nurses office can use the clothes there. Sometimes the kids don't have jackets when the weather is cold or something happens to the ones they are wearing and the need a change of clothes during the day. All in all, a good day.

And so it begins...

I've come to the conclusion that, despite my best intentions, I'm just not good at keeping friends and family updated with our life. Okay- so here goes nothing! Let's see, what's new with us? I'm very much looking forward to this Saturday when we have a garage sale. There are so many "piles" in our house in various places and I just need them to be gone. I've come to realize that I'm trying to hold on to too many thing from when the girls were younger. I don't have very many things saved from when I was a kid and so I think I'm overcompensating. A lot. I'm okay with keeping papers/artwork from school. That's not the problem. The problem lies in the amount of books, games, etc. I really need to thin it out. Oh, did I mention the t-shirts? I had this hairbrained idea to make t-shirt quilts for the girls from all their shirts over the years from sports, school, summer camps, church, etc. Only I don't know how to begin the quilting process. I know that having someone make them is very expensive and so I will have to try to do something myself with them. Hmm.. will have to think on that one a bit.