The Battle of the Basement

Alex wants to have a cast party after the musical. It is one of the biggest casts yet, so I told him we had to clean the basement first so there was room for everyone. There has been 2 families down there since it was last cleaned and it is a mess. Each family has left things behind so we accumulated furniture, toys, and all kinds of odds and ends. We worked all day and still have a big mess! It actually looks worse than when we started. Alex said that it took 28 years of living here to make that mess and we are not going to clean it in a day! I really wish we could have called the clean sweep team, but instead we did the best we could. I found some interesting things and was taken back into time when all my little ones were actually still little! I have a big bag of "things" for each of them. Payback is sweet! We are running out of time so my goal is to do a little bit hopefully every day. Since we now have limited garbage pick-up, it will take forever to get rid of all the junk. We need a dumpster! And, I might add, that we are only cleaning half of the basement- the half where the family room is. The moral of this story is: at least every five years, clean like you are moving and don't wait for 28 years.

Winter Wonderland

Alex says my blogs are boring, so I am trying to spiff it up some. It snowed all day and as soon as it stopped, Alex and I went out to shovel, so I took some pictures of the beauty of nature at its finest. I will attempt to post them for those of you who may have forgotten what it is like to have more than 4 inches of snow! He did not have school-which in itself is a testimony of the good storm we had since we have a superintendant who prides himself on not calling off school, and they sent us home from work early-which is another testimony of the good storm we had. Hope you can see by some of these pictures how beautiful it is.

Blogging Again

Just when I had the commitment to blog, I had to stop! Our computer went down in November. I got by until Christmas when I got a very nice new one from Santa! Then we had company, then we went away, then I had loads of things to get caught up on (and still do), and finally, today, I deceided to take some time to write again. We had a wonderful Christmas Holiday, a great visit to the Reeds, and are now settling into some type of routine again. Last week, Terry's mom went home, Terry went back to traveling, and Alex and I went back to life. The snow and the cold have added some extra excitement, big happeneings at my work have added some extra excitement, and Alex's practices for High School Musical have given him some extra excitement, so there has not been much time for winter blues.
Hopefully, I will make time to keep on blogging!