Phew! It’s over!

As some of you know, I belong to CCMOMC (Chester County Mom’s of Multiples Club).  It’s a fairly large club (about 200 members +) and we had our bi-annual clothing/toy/misc sale.  I’ve been getting ready for this sale for a little while now, but this past week and half has been insane!  I tagged about 250 clothes/toys/etc.  I stayed up many nights until midnight and also let the house go to the crapper this past week.  =)

Friday night was our setup and then Saturday was the sale.  We all had to work a shift, so mine was the clean-up shift.  I think for the next sale in September, I’m going to kindly ask Steve to work my shift.    I worked so hard the week prior, that I was exhausted by the time the sale got here.  I sold a majority of my things – which was great!  I’m anxious to find out how much $ I made!  I’m thinking around $300-400.  (our club website is www.ccmomc.org and if you click on clothing sale, you can see how large it is!)

 Prior to the sale, I’ve been listing lots of baby gear on craigslist, my on-line exchange at work and to my mom’s club forum.  I sold a LOT of the gear the weeks prior to the sale.  Thank goodness I did that, as I would have never been able to take it all to the sale.  I must admit it’s a little sad seeing the last of the baby era go.  I found some of the outfits the kids wore as infants and it really brought back lots of fun memories.  It also made me realize how fast time really does fly!  It does just seem like yesterday that the boys were infants, lying in their bassinets in our bedroom. <tear>  Now we’re yelling at them to stop jumping on our bed! LOL

Our attic is now looking nice and cleaned out.  It’s nice to have the ability to walk from one end to the other.  Now we’re on to the rest of the house! :)

Leavin’ on a jet plane…

… and I do know when we’ll be back again! 

Casey and I are headed to South Carolina for spring break!  One of my very best friends from high school, now lives in Bluffton near Hilton Head.  So we’ll be spending some time with Kim, her husband, Chris and their two kids – Catie-3 yrs.  and Owen-who’s about 4 months old.  We are VERY excited and Kim has planned lots for us to do!  We’ll be there for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on the island and we have our “green” all ready to go.  Casey has been asking me almost every day, “Are we going on the plane today, Mommy?”

We leave Friday morning at the “wee hours” and return on Wednesday the 19th.  I sure will miss Steve and my boys!!  It will be nice to get away though and enjoy some warm weather and great times with great friends!

See you soon!

Very cute…

Casey is quite the thinker for a 5 year old.  She’s always thinking and likes to have things “figured out” in her head.  The other day we were looking at ultrasound pictures.  She was asking if the boys were in my belly and was that water in the picture.  I told her that babies float around in mommy’s bellies.  She said, “So I was swimming around in there and kicking me feet?”  I told her she was.

So I imagine she was thinking about the fact that all the kids came from my belly.  As later that evening, when Steve was giving her a bath she looked at him and said, “Mommy picked the best Daddy.”  Steve asked,”Why do you think that?”  Casey, “Because your fun AND nice!” 

Seriously?

As most of you know, we live on the main road here in Phoenixville.  Our front door faces the road and a small yard and sidewalk follow.  (therefore, no place to park)  So, where would you park your car if you were coming to visit my house?

Would you park across the street and walk over?  Would you park a block away and walk down?  Well, we’ve had many people do exactly that!  We’ve had a couple pizza delivery guys come to the front door and Steve can’t help but ask them, “Where’s your car?” They literally say, “uh, yeah, I wasn’t sure where to park so I parked across the street”.  We would LOVE to say, “Well where do you think we park? Do we park down the street and walk our groceries up a block?”  But we don’t.  We just smile and nod and politely say, “Next time it might be easier for you to park in the street behind our house.”  Then they respond, “Oh yeah (laughing a little and embarassed)”.  And we’ve had others come recently, picking things up from Craigslist.  And they come to the front door saying that they parked down the street and walked up the sidewalk.  Once again, just smile and nod, smile and nod.

We really just CANNOT comprehend what these people are thinking.  Where do we ALL on this row of about 25 houses park?  Do we all park in the side streets and walk down the sidewalks?  LOL!!  It really cracks us up and sometimes it just shows how people just don’t think!

Well, tonight was the topper!  I’ve been calling around for estimates for our lawn. (not really a lawn, a mud pit that needs grass)  So I’ve had some companies coming during the day when I’m not here and then just calling with their estimates.  Tonight, one called and I kid you not – this is what he said, “Hi this is Brian from Grow Green.  I came out to your house today, but I didn’t know where to park.  You don’t have parking in the front do you?” “No”, I reply.  Brian, “Well, I just parked down the street and took a walk up.   Do you have parking in the back?”  Yes I reply.  Brian, “How do I get back there?”  Me, “Well, you can come to the road/alley behind our house. You turn right onto Mason and right onto Center.”  Brian, “Oh, Mason, that’s the road I parked on to walk up to your place.  I’ll be back tomorrow to take a look at your yard in the back.”  “Ok, sounds good”, I said.  It took ALL my strength to not say the following: Ok, first of all, if you were already here, why wouldn’t you just walk to the back to see my back yard?  Second, WHERE DO YOU THINK I PARK??  Seriously!  Just stop and think, just for a minute!  If there’s no parking in the front, maybe you could be a little adventurous and take a trip around the block.  I’d bet you find where I park and where you could park as well.  And FOR SURE, you’d be able to see my back yard.  LOL

Needless to say, I’ll let Brian come out and give his estimate.  But really, would I hire someone to figure out the chemistry of getting my grass to grow if he can’t even figure out how to get to my back yard?  Then call and tell me that he was here, but he’ll be back tomorrow now that he knows how to access the back of my house with his car?  I don’t think so.

Good luck to you Brian – life sure can be complex!