Boston trip

Danny and his brothers and Dad took a weekend trip to Boston and had a great time apparently, laughing, talking, sweating, eating, laughing, and did I mention, laughing?

No words needed

House For Sale!

Our home went on the market today and we celebrated by hubby getting some enormous steaks!  Yea, each one was about three meals worth...

Closing a chapter

Today I tackled the most dreaded task - sorting the toy closet.  How does one look at their kids childhood all packed into one closet and bear to part with one tiny piece of it?  Each item has some significant memory, and yet I know realistically I cannot keep it all.  But how does one throw away the colored plastic bears that used to be citizens of a wood block castle?  How does one discard the matchbox cars that made their way around many tracks, or the stuffed animals that slept with your child night after night? Or the plastic food items that were eaten over and over again or fed to you from your child's little kitchen?

Reason for my absence...

We have been just a little busy working our butts off to get the house ready to go on the market... okay, more than just a little.  We have literally worked from sun-up to way past sun-down every day for a month to sort, clean, organize, trash, paint, scrub, clean, and decorate every inch of our home.  Finally we are finished!  

There is still much packing to be done, but the house is ready to be shown.

 This is the sight we have all seen around the house almost 24/7. 

 Before and after power washing.  Then we decided to just cover it all up anyway with some black foam pieces.  Oh well.

 Giving stuff away...

 Planting flowers

 Re-decorating

And most important of all, cataloging memories.  It has been a huge challenge for me to get rid of stuff, but I have been taking some pictures of special things before I throw them out.

Now, hopefully, I will have time to get back on track with my blogging!