Saturday, July 28, 2007

Estate Sale is complete.

The sale ended today and the team has gotten almost everything packed up and ready for donation pick-up this week. We were able to go through one last time and I held several more things back. The house is beginning to look a little empty at this point. I haven't seen mom's house empty or even sparse in a very long time.

Anna and Brian will be moving in by mid August and she has plans to paint this week. I think the house will have a lot of red in it when she is done! They will then have the carpets replaced and be ready to move! This will be their first house, which was mom and dad's first house as well! Funny how things run in circles. I was talking to my grandma's sister-in-law a few days ago and she was telling me how grandma and grandpa moved to Alexander hesitantly not knowing if they were going to like it out in the country or not. That is pretty much how Steve and I are now moving into her house. So far we are happy and things seem to be going well. So, if we can be half as happy as my grandma was we will be in good shape! Of course the leaves have not fallen on six acres yet either!!!!

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Estate Sale began today.



The estate sale was scheduled for 9 AM today. I stayed at mom's last night until about 10 PM getting as much done as I could. I had to change out some doorknobs (which I must say I did very well) that is until I realized we could not find the key to the doorknob I moved! So I went to Wal-Mart and bought a new one and a neighbor installed it for me this AM right before the sale! Last night I also had to move the fax machine, Internet router, and credit card machine. It seems all very simple, but as you know my life is anything but simple! It took some time to get everything done and I guess I spent a little time just looking around and enjoying being in her house with her things for the last time! It is a little emotional I must admit.



So the sale was to begin at 9 AM, people were in the yard sometime after 7 AM according to a neighbor. They were waiting looking in windows, milling around etc. Then the code enforcement people came with a policeman and went in the house. Apparently the signs asking people to park only on one side of the road was not acceptable in Benton. Made no sense to me. As soon as they moved the signs, people crowded both sides of the street, blocking the road so only one car could pass at a time! I don't know the whole story yet since I haven't talked with the lady running the sale about it. Should be an interesting story anyway.

The neighbor said there was steady traffic all day but there was still a lot left! I think there is a discount tomorrow and Saturday. I am very curious as to what has sold and what is still over there. They don't want family over there while there are customers. They say it makes people uncomfortable. It would make me uncomfortable anyway, to watch people pilfer around! So I am staying out of the house for now. Business will have to wait I guess.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Beached whale in the bathtub!!!

I think I have always been good about laughing at myself and the fixes I seem to create. Well, I share with you my latest misadventure. Maybe you can laugh at least once today! I have been sick this weekend and in bed since yesterday afternoon. I was feeling sorry for myself and also a little achy and thought a warm bath would be good medicine. So I ran a nice warm bath in grandma's old porcelain tub and climbed in. I decided to wash my hair first since it had been more than a day from the last washing! After soaking and finishing up, I began running the water out. As the water level drained, I turned on the faucet to rinse off in. Then I decided I should rinse out my hair on more time. So I turn around in this deep but skinny tub and lie on my back (a pregnant woman can not breath on her back for more than a few mere seconds.) I rinsed my hair and suddenly realized I was stuck! I couldn't sit up, turn over, breath, or get the water turned off. I briefly thought about yelling for Steve to come help, but that would bring the entire family! Besides I think he was outside bringing more stuff in to be put away. As my breath got shorter, I tried harder! Finally, I was able to right myself with great effort! I sat there panting and decided the time for baths was probably over until the baby comes next month!

Thursday, July 19, 2007

We are moved (sorta)/Sale scheduled



I am sorry it has taken so long to add all the new news to the blog. We moved to grandma's house about 2 weekends ago and just got Internet access yesterday. We are living among many boxes and much mess right now. We moved everything from mom's over here and are trying to get it all assimilated before we bring more stuff from storage over. I think we will be having another garage sale this fall. It is amazing how full the house is and we still only have a fraction of our things out! Tells me I need to quit going shopping!!!



The estate sale is scheduled for the 26th of July. The company is Estate Sales by Anna. They have been hard at work over at mom's. They drag everything out price and organize it. Things have been pile head high on counters and beds! I go over several times a week to work on mom's business. It has been amazing to watch the progress, but also very sad. Mom thought something of every single thing in that house. She spent time picking it out, buying it, or deciding it was worth keeping.



The baby is growing well and will be here in just about 1 month. I remember telling the doc that I was concerned about having a new baby and having to take care of mom at the same time. He said that would most likely not be a problem, because she was getting so sick so fast. Now I think I would give anything to have to juggle these two things for the opportunity for mom to meet the baby. Mom has a very good friend that lost a granddaughter a few years back. Another child came into the family and was given the name of the other young lady that passed away before this one was born. Well, when the little girl was old enough to understand they started telling her about her namesake and she would respond that she knew her!! That she had meet her before!!! So maybe mom has meet this little one. Maybe she has held him or her, rocked them already and told it that she was his or her "favorite grandma"! (This was her secret with Sarah and Hogan) She would say "Don't forget I am your favorite grandma" then laugh and say I am really going to get in trouble with Rebecca (Steve's mom) over this one day!!! And I know if she did all this she also told this child how to best manipulate Steve and I to get it's way!! That's what grandma's do so well!! She loved to spoil her grand kids - especially with chocolate chip pancakes in the morning and ice cream cones on the way home from church!



We will be finding out soon if my doctor will let us try natural childbirth since I had two previous C-sections. He said we would do an Ultrasound to estimate the weight before deciding. For some reason I am obsessed with this option. I asked with Hogan and that doctor really discouraged me from the beginning and then he was so big it was not ever really an option. This one seems to be smaller so far. It will have to weigh less than Sarah who was 1 ounce shy of 8 pounds. If we opt for/forced into another c-section it could be as early as Aug. 8th he said!!!! That date made my head spin! We are thinking about Aug. 16th, our anniversary, if he will let us have the date. I think it is on a Friday and he may not like coming in on the weekend! Mom's birthday is on a Sunday so I just assume it is out of the question. But I will ask! We will let you know!

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Moving Day!!!!!

The estate sale lady called and the move to LR fell through! So she wants to have the sale here in mom's house. She wants us out and all our stuff! She wants to bring in other furniture to round out the house. They don't want it to look like the house has been picked over. So we got boxes tonight and are going to spend the 4th packing and organizing. We think we will move on Sunday. We chose that day because on Monday I spent 2 hours delivering birthday invitations for Sarah and Hogan. We missed their birthday in Dec. and wanted to have a "make-up" party! I planned it for Saturday afternoon! So that will take up the day and I can't cancel on them now. They are so excited! Seems timing is difficult for me!!!! Any way we will get there one way or another.

We are going to grandma's house. I have lined up pest control, carpet cleaning and general cleaning this week so it will be ready by this weekend! Things seemed to fall into place as I scheduled these. Of course, I had to call several companies for each to get it all in line! But I think it will work out well. I will let you know as the drama progresses.

I have a special prayer request too. We have a friend that had a baby a week ago. The baby Cal is having trouble keeping his platelets up. He has had 3 blood transfusions and is facing his fourth possibly tomorrow. They have an appointment with a specialist Thursday. They lost a child several years ago with similar problems and another almost didn't make it a few years ago. They are very worried and concerned. Please pray they will have peace, knowledgeable docs, and Cal will recover and start making his own platelets in sufficient quantity. They also want to know what is causing this, in case they have other kids, or for their kid's future kids!