Thursday, April 23, 2009
When the Sales Are Over
Well we sorted thru boxes of things from our storage and from my attic. We shed tears, laughs and many hours of memories. These boxes contained things packed from my mothers house when she passed away and things from sister's when she passed, and things we brought from Calif. when we moved here. Some of the boxes contained Heather's childhood memories, stuff animals, things from her bedroom when she was small, some teen years and things from her childern we had packed.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
I Saved This Why??
As I'm a pack rat by nature I have gathered many things over the years. Some before and many after Joel and my 40 years of marriage.
Our daughter and grandchildren are moving in with us and we are going to redo our attic into a sleeping loft for them. There is plenty of room up there and is has a floor already and you can stand upright so that is a good thing. The worst thing was all the things I have put up there the 10 years I have lived here and the things that were put up there when we moved here and never got unpacked. We we had a lot of help one Saturday from the youth at our church unloading everything except my holiday things, they are still going to have to live in the attic but in a closet. We also had a storage unit we rented for extra stuff from our garage and things I move from my sister's when she passed away I could not part with.
Heather I thought it would be good to take everything to her house she is moving out of and is just behind ours and we would do a inside garage sale. Well everything got moved there and youth being the mover's there was no order to it and we were all just getting over being sick with all the cold stuff and could still not do a lot they did all the moving and placing of everything.
Well we have started the sorting of all the years of saving and it's not pretty. I told my daughter that if I ever look like I'm going to put a bunch of stuff like, papers, cards etc in a box and save it to slit my throat. I spent an evening going thru boxes and still have more to go. Amazing to look at some stuff and wonder why you saved it must have been a reason at one time. Have found some great finds however and will blog more about those later, must go start on the stuff, we plan on having our sale next week-end.
Our daughter and grandchildren are moving in with us and we are going to redo our attic into a sleeping loft for them. There is plenty of room up there and is has a floor already and you can stand upright so that is a good thing. The worst thing was all the things I have put up there the 10 years I have lived here and the things that were put up there when we moved here and never got unpacked. We we had a lot of help one Saturday from the youth at our church unloading everything except my holiday things, they are still going to have to live in the attic but in a closet. We also had a storage unit we rented for extra stuff from our garage and things I move from my sister's when she passed away I could not part with.
Heather I thought it would be good to take everything to her house she is moving out of and is just behind ours and we would do a inside garage sale. Well everything got moved there and youth being the mover's there was no order to it and we were all just getting over being sick with all the cold stuff and could still not do a lot they did all the moving and placing of everything.
Well we have started the sorting of all the years of saving and it's not pretty. I told my daughter that if I ever look like I'm going to put a bunch of stuff like, papers, cards etc in a box and save it to slit my throat. I spent an evening going thru boxes and still have more to go. Amazing to look at some stuff and wonder why you saved it must have been a reason at one time. Have found some great finds however and will blog more about those later, must go start on the stuff, we plan on having our sale next week-end.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Retirement & Other Ramblings
It has been a very long time since my last post. No reason, certainly not that I have been to busy to post, one nice thing about retirement, your time is our own.
All the time I was working, which covered many years and jobs, I thought someday I'll be retired and have all this time to do all the things you put off while your working. Who wants to spend every day off tied to the house, you want to have some fun, there are people to see and places to go, and no sense starting a project you can't finish. All of those closets, cupboards, drawers, laundry room, wow makes me tired just to think about all those things. Well I still haven't gotten to many of those things, have been off for a year and as couple of months. Now the problem seems to be starting out to do one thing and stopping to just do another one thing and all of a sudden you have been fooling around with things, straightening closet, hanging different pictures on photo wall, can't even remember doing what but the day is gone. Oh well I say I have all day tomorrow. Joel I do spend most of the day together, not always productive but together, and I know I will always be grateful for all of that time
I love being retired. It is a great feeling to know that I can do anything I want when I want and nothing if I choose not to. I'm getting into some bad habits however that I'm going to try very hard to get out of. Staying up to late, which I really love, I'm more owl than eagle, which means you sleep later and your day is gone before you know it. Also I could probably be very content to not go anywhere and just stay home in my Jammie's or sweats all day, said this wasn't going to happen to me but it does seem to be creeping in. I'm hoping with summer that mood will leave me, of course I blame it on working all of those years and having to leave when all I wanted to do was stay home. Do you like my logic? Some changes are coming and I will blog more later.
I do LOVE being retired, it means being home whenever the grandkids are and being home every day my grandson is visiting, don't miss any actvities with them and spend much quality time with them. We are blessed to have grandkid's who want to be around there old grandparents, Our daughter has done a fine job with her childern, we are proud of her and proud how the kids are turning out.
All the time I was working, which covered many years and jobs, I thought someday I'll be retired and have all this time to do all the things you put off while your working. Who wants to spend every day off tied to the house, you want to have some fun, there are people to see and places to go, and no sense starting a project you can't finish. All of those closets, cupboards, drawers, laundry room, wow makes me tired just to think about all those things. Well I still haven't gotten to many of those things, have been off for a year and as couple of months. Now the problem seems to be starting out to do one thing and stopping to just do another one thing and all of a sudden you have been fooling around with things, straightening closet, hanging different pictures on photo wall, can't even remember doing what but the day is gone. Oh well I say I have all day tomorrow. Joel I do spend most of the day together, not always productive but together, and I know I will always be grateful for all of that time
I love being retired. It is a great feeling to know that I can do anything I want when I want and nothing if I choose not to. I'm getting into some bad habits however that I'm going to try very hard to get out of. Staying up to late, which I really love, I'm more owl than eagle, which means you sleep later and your day is gone before you know it. Also I could probably be very content to not go anywhere and just stay home in my Jammie's or sweats all day, said this wasn't going to happen to me but it does seem to be creeping in. I'm hoping with summer that mood will leave me, of course I blame it on working all of those years and having to leave when all I wanted to do was stay home. Do you like my logic? Some changes are coming and I will blog more later.
I do LOVE being retired, it means being home whenever the grandkids are and being home every day my grandson is visiting, don't miss any actvities with them and spend much quality time with them. We are blessed to have grandkid's who want to be around there old grandparents, Our daughter has done a fine job with her childern, we are proud of her and proud how the kids are turning out.
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