Goodbyes

I haven't posted much since starting my blog. It's not that I haven't had plenty to say, but finding the time to do it has been another. For the past week, we have been super busy. I have spent more time outside than usual.
Let's see, between work for both of us, getting ready for a garage sale, and Josh working on our new master bath....that's just the main ones. Throw in time with the little ones, cleaning, and just the normal everyday and we've had a busy week. I have been tired the entire week because we've been going to bed 2 or 3 hours later than usual.
We had to say goodbye twice this week. We spent more time outside this week because it was our neighbor's last week in their house. My girls love playing with their 10 month old. They love to see her and sit with her in the grass. Sometimes, we take walks with them too. Since Keirah comes home and immediately points to their house and says "baby", it is necessary that we spent any last time we could with Jadyn. They moved on Friday and since then, it has been kinda lonely to see the house empty and dark =). Goodbye to Justin, Julie, & Jadyn...we will miss you. Come back sometime to visit!
My next goodbye was to a friend that I've had for 21 years!! That's funny considering I'm 30. We've been friends since elementary school. We were even roommates in college. We've shared a lot of laughter and tears. The tears mostly came because we were laughing so hard. She is getting married in a few days and moving to Melbourne, FL. We are happy that she is getting married, but sad that she will be so far away in FL. I guess that doubles the desire to go to Florida. She came over on Thursday evening and we talked for several hours and it still doesn't suffice to say goodbye. We did get to see her again on Saturday for a bit and that was nice. Of course, we will be going to the wedding, but you know how weddings go...not enough time to talk for hours to everyone. So, in the aspect of having to say goodbye twice in a week to people moving away, it has saddened us. We'd just like to keep them here close by.
Other than that, work was very busy on Monday. It always is on Mondays. I caught up in the next few days. Each day at home was busy. I was getting ready for my annual garage sale. I don't know where all of this stuff comes from, but we sure manage to get a lot. I guess it comes from my desire to change things. Josh told me that he thinks this is the most stuff we've ever had at a garage sale. We had light fixtures, outlet covers, blinds, faucets, curtains and of course the hundreds of other things. I tried to make this garage sale my last one for awhile. It went well (minus the torrential rain that we had on Friday for several hours). I can't complain. From my observations, it seems that everything that I thought I would throw away afterwards if it didn't sell--SOLD. For instance, the mini-blinds. I had probably 20 sets of these things. I have purged my house of them. If I sold any I would have been glad. They were like a weird hot commodity with these garage sale people. They ALL sold. The other things were stuff that I pulled out of the garage or garden. You guessed it--every single item sold!!
My house feels much lighter and my new furniture has been ordered. We have to paint the LR before it gets here--Ugh! I'm just tired of painting stuff. I even thought of a new set-up for the LR. We'll see if it works!
Josh has been working on the Master bath. It would be wonderful if he had more than a few hours a week to do so. He and a buddy from work (Scott) were able to do several things on Wed. afternoon/evening before Josh had to run off to a work meeting. It is now ready for paint/tile.
Now that we've gotten some major to-do's done, I need to clean the house again. Working on the bath has produced a lot of dust & stuff. I have been glad several times over that this is a long weekend. I need to do some more laundry, vacuuming, & dusting. I don't have to water my flowers outside today because it rained--yay. Josh is working all day so I can get stuff done without feeling like it's intruding on precious time with him.