I’ve been really busy and my computer was broken- serious withdrawl from computer symptoms. I spent much of today catching up on all my favorite blogs.

This gives you some idea of the patterns I’ve been trying to deal with from my mom’s house- I might be a much happier person if I could just throw stuff away… but I can’t. So I’ve been doing ebay, which actually is kind of fun. I am very friendly with the lady in the post office now. I have similar piles of fabric, notions, books and magazines. I am plowing my way through them, sorting treasures from trash, finding homes for stuff I don’t want. I told my husband to put me in the nursing home if he ever hears me say,”Honey, I am going down to the fabric store to buy a zipper”- I probably have over 100 zippers now in all shapes, sizes, colors and materials. Eleanor has been busy using some of them.

We had a big Yard Sale last weekend to deal with a lot of the parents’ house stuff. This photo shows only a small part of what we dragged out of the house- there was much more in the basement and our neighbors contributed. The sale was to make money for Eleanor’s trip to South Africa and of course to try to get rid of as much as possible! It was very successful although we still had a ton of stuff left over.