Wow what a week

This has been a crazy few days.  Decided to clean out garage room so we can store the boxes that are now in the formal living room.  So all the craft supplies and heat press went into Emily's vacant room.  All the signs, ribbons and rolls of mesh are neatly sorted and stored in the closet.  Heat press is set up and wreath making supplies are ready to be used...YEA!!!!!  Friday comes and Jenny and Jerry's landlord comes by to fix a leaky faucet and also unannounced brings someone to look at buying the house they are in.  SURPRISE    They were shocked.  Monday comes and they find out the lady has bought their house and they have until the end of the month to vacate.  They were set to sign their lease to renew.  SO that brings us to now....the "vacant room" that holds all my craft supplies and Jim's makeshift office.  Moved the "office" today and cleaned the formal dining room (that's where his desk and computer went).  Now to start finding places for the craft supplies and music equipment stored in the closet.  We will get them settled in here before the end of the month.

Took a huge load of clothes to Goodwill today.  Purge, Purge, Purge.  How did we accumulate so much stuff????  Life is never dull.  But I will say that I feel so blessed for these to be our problems.  Moving the overabundance of crap out of the way so we are able to give our kids a roof over their heads when they need it.  God has blessed us. 

Busy Days

Yesterday was fun.  Spent most of day in Orange Park with Emily.  Had a blast shopping in the new fall decorating aisles.  Hit up every craft and home decor store we could find.  Of course we spent too much but you only live once.

Started gathering all my crafts supplies and trying to sort them and put in one room instead of scattered all over the house.  Lots of useless stuff that can go to yard sale, but as I came across others, the ideas started coming left and right.  But that will have to wait for another day.  Have some small stacks to finish sorting, then it's on to another category for the same process.

Another week gone by...

Last week seemed to be the week of Grandchildren.  Actually saw JR a few times.  He and Logan spent the night with me Wednesday night.  Friday,went to Jon's to watch all three kids while he went to an appt.   Saturday was Miss Vi's 2nd birthday party.    Jim was home for the weekend.  Bless his heart, he had to work on my computer and replace parts on it all weekend.  Finally up and running now.  New hard drive so now I have to transfer everything I want to keep.  Long, boring, tedious chore. 

Rachel came in tonight and announced she is moving out again...took her clothes and left...so, I started rearranging things to begin the great purge and pack.  I have approx 30 boxes that I had already packed about 6 or so months ago.  I am now going to begin re-opening those boxes and only keeping what I truly want.  So far, I haven't really missed anything so I can see a huge yard sale and some ebay in my near future. 

Catching Up

Got home from Columbia Friday night.  Saturday was spent catching up on laundry, cleaning and kid happenings.  Rachel has moved back home again.  Don't know how long that will last. 

Jim returned to Columbia on Sunday.  He had to open office at 7am Monday morning so he only had the one day at home, so needless to say the rest of my Sunday was sad.
Monday, however, was a different story.....after a month in exile, I returned to the motherland...HOBBY LOBBY!!!!  I went alone...didn't buy much, but looked for an hour or so (without complaints) and got SO many new ideas. 
Today was spent trying to figure out how to downsize and pack this house full of useless mess.  Well, I would say it's 50/50 on the useless mess.  We are a funny couple.  We both agree to hold onto antiques and family built furniture but we really don't care about anything else....but we also agree on holding onto every last tool (Jim) and craft supply (me). Of course these item could fill another house alone. 🏡🤣
The rest of my week will be spent with a few of my grandchildren.  Seems like I have one or two every day and Miss Violet's 2nd birthday party Saturday.  Life is good.

Still in Columbia

I'm still in Columbia, SC with Jim.  He works and I sit in hotel room watching crafting videos on youtube missing my supplies :(    Have been working on a crocheted shoulder wrap and practicing my brush stroke letters.  I didn't realize it would be so hard to adjust the pressure and turn the brush pen with arthritis.  Sometimes the fingers and hands don't cooperate.

We went to the movies Saturday.  Saw "Yesterday".  It was very good.  Had a couple of idiot 20 something males sitting next to me.  Didn't have a clue about the music and in one scene they were trying to figure out if it was really John Lennon or not...one finally said "I think he's dead"...DUH!!!!!   Went shopping after movie and Jim bought box set of the Mission Impossible movies....can anyone guess what we did Sunday????  Then to Zestos for our beloved broasted chicken.  We both love it!!!!

Have been cooking dinners every night, but it gives me something to do.  Not too bad cooking for only 2.  Missing being able to get out and roam about, but will be home soon and when I come back, I think I'll just bring my car.  Love being with Jim in the evenings and hotel living in the daytime with nothing to do is nice for the first week, but after that it gets claustrophobic.  You can only look/shop in Cracker Barrel so much......

Crazy Life

Finished out last week with Rachel moving back home Saturday.  Jim finally made it home about 12:30 Sunday morning but came home hungry so at one am I am in the kitchen making grilled ham and cheese sandwiches.  We are up a few hours later packing and getting ready to spend a few weeks in Columbia,SC but on the way we stop by to see Emily and her new car.  Seems she speaks and Zack makes it happen.

In Columbia now - hotel gave us the same room we had last time...Jim is working and I'm trying to catch up on some computer cleaning and movie watching while things are quiet.

Love it

👍👍  Loving this being able to get a few things accomplished.  Got all of Jim's clothes moved out of the guest room (Emily's room) closet, sorted and hung in his closet.  Rachel now has room to hang her clothes since she is moving back home for a while. 
Found a great sale at Cato today and bought 2 new dresses and a couple of tops. 
Got some floors cleaned and Vac'd today and got rid of a few stacks of crap that have been laying around waiting for me to find a place for them.  I found the place today.  A big black garbage bag.  I can see me doing a lot more of this!!!