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Sale

Well it’s 11:19 should I go to bed or stay up and blog? Hmm, blog. I have spent the week getting ready for a yard/garage sale tomorrow. It won’t all fit in the garage so it is spilling onto the lawn. So I guess it is a gard sale or maybe a yarage sale??? Anyway, there are lots of toys, a Christmas tree, a toaster oven, some fake foliage, tee shirts, an old lap top, and lots of other great junk I hope people buy. It is hard for me to price things. I think I have a tendency to price things too high. I guess we will find out. Chris used the sale as an excuse to buy a label maker. I like it. It’s not a lot faster but it is fun and it does look better than my hand writing. Emilee is going to come over at 8:00 and stay for a few hours. I am so glad. Chris is working and I was a little nervous about having the sale all by myself. The turnout should be good. There is a church a few doors down from us that is having a basketball competition and last week there were about fifty cars parked on the block. I hope as many show up this week. Not too much else is going on. I have been cat sitting for a friend and on Wednesday I went to story time and then over to Emilee’s at Nathan and Caleb’s request. We lost to them at Mario Kart again but we came in second instead of 6th. One of these days we are going to squash them! I know, I know they are not even ten yet, but somehow it is still nice to beat them. Ha ha. Well good night everybody, Anna just woke up and she is not happy.

Happy Father’s Day!

Somehow I mixed up my days and thought today was Father’s Day so I went to the store this morning and got Chris all the great things he would want for breakfast that we didn’t have. Then I made it all up while he ran to his job site to unlock the doors for the scientist that were going to be there and finished just as he got home. I had the kids seated at the table and a card in front of his spot and then just after he sat down I left. That’s right I went to Village Inn to meet Emilee for breakfast. Now why would I do such a thing when I really thought it was Father’s Day? Well Chris has been working really long days like sixty two hours this week and I have been stuck at home with the children and going a bit crazy. Today was Ladies’ Bible study so I called Em last night and asked if she could meet me early and go to breakfast. And look at the bright side I am all practiced up and ready to make Father’s Day really great next Sunday and I’m not really bad because I didn’t really ditch my husband on Father’s Day I only thought I did. What a relief. Well breakfast was lots of fun even though we didn’t have room for pie. We laughed and laughed about all sorts of things and then we went to our Bible study and Emilee shared a really great devotion about giving to others and God giving back to us to overflowing proportions. Then we played Sequence. Which is a great game, especially when Emilee doesn’t win. I didn’t win either. Sister V beat us both. After Bible study Emilee and I headed to the thrift store and laughed and laughed some more. They have some of the greatest ugly skirts and shirts ever. After that I headed home and hung out until church. After church us Thompsons were planning on taking Brother Randy out to dinner but we all got a better offer to go to the Smiths for a Bar-B-Q. Mmm it was so good and I got to play on the Wii again. Emille beat me soudly once more but I did manage to beat her at Phase Ten Dice. We left about nine and then I dropped off my family so I could head to the airport to pick up my friend's Mom. Now I am finally home and very tired but after getting a pep talk from the NARR president I decided to blog about my great day while it was fresh in my mind and my many distractions are all asleep. Goodnight everybody.

I'm Back

So as you may have read on Emilee’s blog, she beat me soundly on the Wii Wednesday. But, it was great. Oh and we beat the boys soundly (one out of six times and just barely) playing Mario Cart. On Thursday the kids and I drove out to Parker and got Sam a couple of plastic Little Tykes cars. They were only $10 dollars a piece and Sam is very happy. I’ve been trying to get a yard sale together to get a little extra money and get rid of some of my junk. I have a decent pile I was going to sell today but Chris told me last night he might have some stuff to add if I wait until next weekend. So I’m going to wait so I will have more stuff. Wahoo. In other news, I’m trying to sell my car to buy a van with air conditioning before we get to the hottest part of the summer. I hope it works out. We need more room and I really want a Dodge Caravan.

Now for some sad news, my Grandfather passed away a couple of weeks ago. He died in his sleep. We had the viewing last Saturday and sometime this month we are going to try to all get together to spread his ashes somewhere. None of my family was very comfortable with cremation but unfortunately my Grandfather didn’t have life insurance and the cost of a funeral is very high. Thank you again for all of your prayers for him these last six months. To my knowledge he did not get saved before he died unless it was in his final moments but I know that God was faithful and provided him the opportunity.

God bless you