But hey, it might work for you!! Try it, at least for awhile. With all the cost cutting that we are all trying to do, it's a great time to try it!!!!!
http://babyslime.livejournal.com/174054.html
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Please listen
Maybe you could open the link and play it while you are doing other things on the computer. Please listen. I want to chat with someone about it!
http://brookhills.org/media/files_audio/080629.mp3
Turning Japanese
Okay, maybe that's not politically correct. But I watched "The Last Samauri" this weekend, and now I want to be Japanese.
I love how they are so gentle and precise. Yet so reverential of the Earth. I love how they live. Or lived. I'm sure our super awesome Western influence has seeped in to their once pure culture. We do that sort of thing, you know.
And I have a small movie star crush on Ken Watanabe.
It was a nice way to spend an evening. And I want to live there now. Or maybe I want to live there in the mid to late 1800's. That would be kinda hard. Maybe I'll just visit Japan. That would be easiest...Saturday, June 28, 2008
It's done!!!!!
The girls fighting with two of our garage sale items. Can you guess WHY the sword were in the garage sale?? Huh? Three guesses...
Ronda came by to offer moral support!
Evidently you had to wear pink in order to have a garage sale!
Too cool for school....
Where there is a will there is a way...
At one point, there were cars all the way up the street!
A princess was the cashier!!!!!
Jenn set up a lemonade stand for the kids. Best thing ever. That was their favorite part.We did it. We had 5 families, and we had a great time. It was *HOT* (oh hot hot hot) and busy, but we all did well. I think we made enough to buy our paint! $370.00 total for us!!!
Our friends were priceless and precious. We worked so hard, but had fun too. I'm actually not sure if I'll do this again next year. My goal is to not accumulate things so that we don't need to sell anything.
Although.... we told the kids they could choose ONE treat for cleaning out their rooms. We went to Target and they got their treat. I got a new pair of shoes... :) On the way home, we couldn't get into our driveway, because Hannah Home was there getting the leftovers. So we drove up to another garage sale in our neighborhood. (whispering) * i bought a purse* It's okay. This is how we do it. Cheap in/cheap out!!!!
We even saw some people at Target that had been at our garage sale!!!!
It was fun. I am tired. I have the best friends in the world. If we can have a blast having a garage sale, we can have fun anywhere!
Friday, June 27, 2008
I wonder
if these pictures are enough to keep me from doing a garage sale next year??
Probably not. We'll see how much we make.
Probably not. We'll see how much we make.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
I am an antique
I got this ring today at the thrift store. It's 10k, and it was only $28. Besides that, I am an absolute lunatic for antique jewelry. I can't actually afford antique jewelry, but I love it anyway. I get lucky every now and then at the thrift store.
(I got my sapphire band at the thrift store too. I had wanted one since we were married to go with my wedding set. I perused Ebay, looked at jewelry stores and decided that I would never be able to afford a band of sapphires. Last year, I was at the Alabaster Galleria, and saw a band of sapphires. It was too big and set in yellow gold, but they were real and it cost $60. I was beside myself. I love the thrift...)
Anyway, I spotted this ring at the thrift, and I just fell in love with it. I reminded me of my great grandmother. It was only $28, and I had a secret stash, so it was perfect. On the way home, I realized that I am truly an antique.
I took this http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/index.php quiz this morning. I scored a 99. Um, 1930's here I come.
I've always wanted to live in a different era. The roaring 20's. Oh me. I think I was the only one in honor's English that flew through Hemingway. And read more than they were supposed to. Or the 40's. Oh the fashion. I love the 50's with the perfectly dressed housewives who vacuumed in their high heels. They played bridge and worried about ring around the collar. That's about as far as I'd want to go. As much as I am still a little bit of a hippie, the 60's and 70's don't do a lot for me.
I'm an antique at heart. So that's why my sweet little ring just made me a happy camper today. I look at it and think that it's okay to be antiquated. My role as a wife and a mother were created by God, and He knows best. (Father knows best, you know...) I love that He created these sweet roles for women to embrace, knowing that it provided them with fulfillment and peace.
I've noticed so much lately a disdain for those roles. As a result, women are trying to be women and men, and are suffering because of it. It's just not how God created the family to be, and it makes me sad to see the further breakdown of the family unit in this country.
Ah well, never mind all that. My little ring reminds me that it's okay to love just being a wife and a mom. And it's okay to be a throw back to simpler times. That's where my heart is. Those simple times. Those antique times.
(I got my sapphire band at the thrift store too. I had wanted one since we were married to go with my wedding set. I perused Ebay, looked at jewelry stores and decided that I would never be able to afford a band of sapphires. Last year, I was at the Alabaster Galleria, and saw a band of sapphires. It was too big and set in yellow gold, but they were real and it cost $60. I was beside myself. I love the thrift...)
Anyway, I spotted this ring at the thrift, and I just fell in love with it. I reminded me of my great grandmother. It was only $28, and I had a secret stash, so it was perfect. On the way home, I realized that I am truly an antique.
I took this http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/index.php quiz this morning. I scored a 99. Um, 1930's here I come.
I've always wanted to live in a different era. The roaring 20's. Oh me. I think I was the only one in honor's English that flew through Hemingway. And read more than they were supposed to. Or the 40's. Oh the fashion. I love the 50's with the perfectly dressed housewives who vacuumed in their high heels. They played bridge and worried about ring around the collar. That's about as far as I'd want to go. As much as I am still a little bit of a hippie, the 60's and 70's don't do a lot for me.
I'm an antique at heart. So that's why my sweet little ring just made me a happy camper today. I look at it and think that it's okay to be antiquated. My role as a wife and a mother were created by God, and He knows best. (Father knows best, you know...) I love that He created these sweet roles for women to embrace, knowing that it provided them with fulfillment and peace.
I've noticed so much lately a disdain for those roles. As a result, women are trying to be women and men, and are suffering because of it. It's just not how God created the family to be, and it makes me sad to see the further breakdown of the family unit in this country.
Ah well, never mind all that. My little ring reminds me that it's okay to love just being a wife and a mom. And it's okay to be a throw back to simpler times. That's where my heart is. Those simple times. Those antique times.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
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