Counting My Blessings Giveaway

One of these days I'll actually have some time to get on here and write something but, for now at least, this will have to suffice.  It's quiet here as the husband has gone to bed and the granddaughter is asleep in the next room.  I have a few moments to myself to look over some old blogs and discover new ones.  This one's a new one to me and I think I'm really going to enjoy her.  She's doing a cool giveaway so check it out.  You might like her, too.

I'm HOPING HOPING HOPING that my middle daughter will finish her moving out this weekend so I can tame some of this chaos.  Next weekend is the baby shower for my youngest and her 4 week premature daughter and the weekend after is a "sissies weekend" with my sisters up in Oregon to see my folks.  Things are moving along, but very slowly.

I'm . . .

A Grandma again!! Hallie Rae was born on February 2 to my youngest and her husband. Photos to follow because things are busy because . . .

We're empty nesters again!! Middle daughter and granddaughter moved out at the same time resulting in my house being in a total state of chaos.

At some time in the future, things will be "normal" again. For now, I'm plodding along trying to organize, rearrange and not forget all those wonderful ideas that keep popping up and then disappearing before I can write them down. Yes, that will be one of my changes. Must get paper next to wherever I am.

Time Zooming By

I've got to get myself some sort of a schedule. I feel like my day is zooming past me and I'm not feeling like I'm accomplishing much. Time to take charge.

Speaking of taking charge, Katie and Emma are moving out! It's about the best (in my opinion) it can be. They'll be just four houses down the street. It makes for a pretty good safety net for them. We'll see how it goes but I'm excited for them and I'm excited for us. That means that pretty much the next week (ha!) or so will be filled with rearranging furniture and rooms. Mike will hate it.

Cleaning!!

Purging, cleaning, straightening, organizing; it can be really rewarding, but, at the same time, tiring.  I started tackling our bedroom today.  It needs to be presentable for the inspector for when we finally get the permit to have it.  That's a good thing since it's been there for 14 years.  Our bedroom is huge so I moved a big bookcase today to partition it off somewhat.  Tomorrow, I'll try to go through the stuff that belongs in the shelves and make it look better than it does now.  Unfortunately, what it ends up looking like and what I envision in my head rarely ever match.  Maybe someday.

Some to-do's for tomorrow:

Cards in month folders

upload photos from camera

switch big desk with tall bookcase (BIG job, LOTS of stuff in both)

pay bills

vacuum living room

put covers on chairs and couch

figure out what to put in which storage areas

put the rest of the Christmas stuff in the attic

start posting photos on the blog

get photos transferred to Aperture Library (since we're talking 100,000+ photos, this is another big job)

Off to bed so I can get a fresh start tomorrow.

2011

Happy New Year!  Husband starts Days tomorrow (first time in a year!!) so I will finally get a chance to work in our bedroom.  I'm thrilled.  He's not.  All I need is one rotation.  I should be able to resurrect the room in four months.  A Blessed Eve of Epiphany to you all!