Trying to clean out the wrong folder

Tonight I was looking at my email. I thought "Hey! Maybe I should clean out some of my folders!"

I clicked "Manage folders" and looked at which ones had the most memory in them. Turned out my "Family" folder had the most. So I clicked there and started to sift.

Yeah, not such a good idea.

You know how time is supposed to help heal? Apparently re-reading things that have happened in the past undoes that. I don't know if there is real healing from some things.

I thought about just deleting it all... then thought, it will probably be important someday for my children to understand the dynamics of certain relationships and why they are the way they are.

I should probably print those emails out, but then I wouldn't know what to do with them and I would probably come across them more often and just end up crying again.

So, so much for trying to clean out that folder.

Maybe in a couple more years...

Goober

Is growing and changing. In fact in the last month alone I have noticed a marked difference in how he approaches life. He thinks more... he considers.

Just the other day after I came home from my "Roomie Reunion" (which was great fun, by the way) my husband informed me that when Goober received some snacks to take home and enjoy, from Grandma and Grandpa J, he saved them for the next morning... and even then, only ate one and saved the rest for later in the weekend.

As he slowly went through the weekend his treats slowly disappeared, while his siblings ate theirs all with relish after only one night of sleep.

Just yesterday, after being outside mowing the lawn, I came inside to grab a grocery sack to gather some of the carrots that I have planted in the garden. They are, after all, getting quite big...

as I trudged up the stairs and into the kitchen, Goober popped out from the bottom of the stairs and exclaimed: "Mom! Your going to be so happy! I'm cleaning out the 'Little Room'!" Which is where we have been keeping all of our toys recently... under the stairs. In fact I've been thinking I really do need to go through it all because if I'm not careful we are going to end up with a load of spiders and their little families in there.

After he had finished and showed me his work (insisting that I "close my eyes" until I was right were I could see it all) I was really, really pleasantly surprised! He did a fabulous job! Before the cleaning has commenced, I (being an adult who didn't want to step on any toys) couldn't even get into the little room, and now the kids could play in their again if they wanted!

Goober was so proud! And so, of course, was I!

Okay....

Well, this week has been really weird.

Last weekend our family went camping with the family and when we came home on Sunday night Jer's feet were hurting from a gout flairup. So he then used FMLA and got a few more days off of work to recover... so he was home till yesterday.

Which was nice but really threw my week for a loop. Instead of getting normal things done, I was trying to get other things done.

First off there was airing out the sleeping bags from camping and setting up the tent to sweep it out and make sure it was dry. And of course there was the laundry I missed plus the added laundry that camping creates! So Mt. Washmore (stole that from Kar and Nat... it's just too good of a description girls!) started getting tackled almost as soon as we got home. It took till Wednesday to get the tent done due to crazy nutzo Idaho wind. Then the power went out a couple of times due to aforementioned wind, so... because the kiddos were going stir crazy we took them and went through the car wash with them.

Most of the time when we wash our cars we do it ourselves or go to Soapies where the car sits still and the things moves around it. The kids seemed to really like the moving car wash (well, okay... the older kids loved it, Turbo wasn't so sure and and seemed a bit worried, at one point he was yelling "Mom! Mom! Back up! It's going to hit me!" but after he realized that the window stopped it all it was good.) and actually it did a really good job cleaning the car... reminds me of the days when I was a teen and washed my car often, it has been a good year since our van was given a good scrub, but the camping trip guaranteed that the thing needed it desperately!

Last night we went and got family pictures taken, because the last time we had them taken was when Turbo was a month or so old and even then it was only because the extended family scheduled them! So I bit the bullet and decided we needed family pictures that we chose to do on our own... and since Jer was home anyways, why not see if Loni (one of my friends who is trying to get a photography website up and running) could do it last night. She is such a doll, she totally worked with us and even missed out on her bible study so that we could get it done! I'm sure the pictures will be awesome once they are done and am excited to see them. :)

Anyways, now that Jer is back at work and it's near the end of the week.... well, ya, getting back into gear is hard! I stayed up too late (Jer is a night owl after all) and haven't gone and worked out all week... Ya, need to get on that before I balloon back out!!! But I really am having a hard time talking myself into getting anything real done today or tomorrow. Maybe I'll call these two days my own little vacation and call it good till Monday... well, 'cept that I have to get to the grocery store or the world will implode!

I've found that I kinda work like this... well at least the graph at the top, the rest is great too, but doesn't apply that well to me since I'm okay at getting things done... cept cleaning.

Cleaning sucks.

A garage is for WHAT?

For parking in? Heaven forbid!

Ever since moving in to the new house our garage has been packed with STUFF. Loads and loads of STUFF.

Well, Monday I proceeded to get rid of a LOT of said stuff. this has continued until today.

I have taken 4 van loads to Deseret Industries, 1 van load to my sister-in-laws house, and 1 van load to the dump. And though the garage is not completely redeemed (can't park the car in it) I can now park the van in it. yay!

I was going to do a garage sale, but when you don't have any real space in said garage to sort and price it becomes a bit overwhelming. So I donated it. Cause I'm lazy like that.

I do think that I may have to take another load to donate though. But at least now I feel like I can actually find the stuff that I'm looking for while I may still need it!