Busy

For us, anyway. I know a lot of people who are WAY more busy than us, and I really don't understand how any of them do it. But in our standards, we've been busy lately. We've had football games to go to the last 3 Saturdays in a row, we've had voice, violin and piano lessons, we've been getting ready to move in about a month, and I've been really busy with my crochet. Not really a lot, but, like I said, for us it is.

About the moving: We are FINALLY getting ready to move to the farm! Yes! There is finally a light at the end of a 5 year long tunnel. When we first bought the property Mom and Dad said that it was probably gonna be about 5 or 6 years before we would be able to move down there, but I seriously thought they were out of their minds! 5 YEARS??? That was like half of my life at that time! (I was 10 when we bought the property) Now, originally when we bought the place we were going to just 'fix up' the house that was already there really quickly (yeah right!) and use that for a guest house, and build ourselves another house for us to actually live in. Like I said earlier, yeah right. I think it was probably about a year into it that we decided that that was NOT gonna happen. No way, no how. So we decided that we were just going to live in the house that was already there, put an addition on the back of it, and we'd be fine. Well, we still don't have the addition, but it'll take a really long time to build with the whole 1-day-a-week thing, and we all really don't want to wait. So it'll have to wait until after we've moved.

So anyway, we've been getting ready for that lately! Which means going through all our stuff and getting rid of a bunch of it. You know, it's amazing how much stuff you can collect in 10 years. It is CRAZY how much stuff we have here that we don't need. Well, in general, that is. I really don't have that much extra stuff. I do not like keeping stuff that I don't need, so I am CONSTANTLY going through my stuff trying to decide what I can get rid of. And I do that with my iPod too, I am going through on about a once a week basis getting rid of songs that I don't listen to and apps that I don't use. Which I suppose is good, considering I really don't have that much space on it. It's only an 8 GB iPod, and the software takes up a quarter of that. :D

So anyway, I have been going through all my stuff, and I've been realizing that I really don't have that much that I can get rid of. Seriously. I need to keep all of my craft stuff because I use it for my business, (all the stuff that I don't need I've already gotten rid of) I don't have a lot of shoes, and the few pairs that I do have fit me, (I've never understood the whole women with shoes and purses thing. What's so special about shoes and purses?) Probably the only thing that I really could get rid of is clothes. I have a LOT of clothes that I don't wear. The only thing is that Mom won't let me sell them in the yard sales that we've been having, and she won't let me take them to church to put in the front hallway for other people to take, because I have several little sisters who will soon fit into them. And it drives me crazy. I HATE having lots of excess stuff, so the fact that she won't let me get rid of any of it is making me a little insane. Of course, she does have a good point. All of my sisters will be able to use them at one point or another. *sigh* Oh well. I suppose I'll just need to live through it. :)

Oh! I just remembered! Last Monday we went to the doctor's office to find out what the baby is. Guess what? It's a GIRL!!! I knew it! I have had this gut feeling the whole first 20 weeks that it was going to be a girl. Oh, you should have seen the boys. The whole time after we found out they were sitting there comforting each other and hugging each other. It was so cute! They were like, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" :D I still think they are a little upset, but they're glad that the baby is healthy. Poor Annabeth. She was literally crying in the car on the way home because she wanted a boy. Poor thing. But now she's so excited to be having a little sister. She talks all the time about how she's going to play tea party with her, and play baby dolls with her, and do all that 'sister sister' stuff. :)

Like I said at the beginning of the post, I've been pretty busy with crochet suff. You can read about all I've been up to lately here. I'll be posting more there right after I'm done here.

Well, that's all for today! Later!