Oh What Do We Do in the Summertime?

I'm back from Michigan and have almost caught up on the laundry. And I'm almost used to the time in relation to how tired I am according to where the sun is in the sky. Random, Savannah and Scout are visiting while Amanda & Troy have a grand adventure in Malaysia & Singapore. (Be sure to check out their blog, it is great!)

Well, while Mom & Dad are on their grand adventure I thought it might be fun if the kids were able to report something other than "we watched t.v. and played on the trampoline." So today was defined as "Errand Day" and we went to the store to purchase some activities that the kids could do. We went to two stores, Toys R Us and Michael's and did great! That was two hours ago and the kids are still having a great time playing with some of the stuff they got and using their incredible imaginations.



The pictures aren't great but you at least can get an idea of what they're doing. Let's hear it for camera phones!

They don't stay little long!

Here's a comparison of baby Jasmine at 5 days old and 14 days old in her car seat!

Baby Jasmine

What to do?

Here I am in beautiful Sterling Heights, Michigan with a beautiful new granddaughter and two great older grandchildren. I am supposed to be helping. The question arises: What is "help" really? If I interfere with the routine of life, when I leave there could be the potential of chaos for the parents and children trying to bring their life back to "normal". And let's face it, there's enough chaos with life as it is and with a new baby I think that is just the perfect description of "chaos".

So it has been my goal here to accomplish something that has been on the "list" for a long time but has not been done because of the reality of life getting in the way. You know, things like children needing dinner EVERY day... running out of clean dishes... even laundry (you know you get every single piece of laundry clean and you move that pillow and WOAH! Where did that sock come from????!!!!! It's like a curse, once you find one you know that within minutes there will be 4 more socks showing up and before you know it there's another load of laundry! And ONE load of baby clothes takes you 5 hours to fold because there are 124 MILLION pieces of clothing!!!)

So, I have been going through the boxes and bags of clothes that have been saved for the next child. The evidence of a frugal person, overwhelmed with life, but trying to do what is best.

It has been fun for me, as I wish someone would do this with my stuff! It's fun and much easier for me here, because I am a "disinterested" third party. I have no emotional attachment to any of the stuff, so I can toss it without any remorse or concern. And I am happy to report that I have finished the basement task here!!! With 10 days left I am excited and I think that I can help with the upstairs closet and a few other little areas and feel that I have completed the task. (Which is a great thing for my personality "type".)

And once I figure out how to do a slide show on this blog you can see the results of my efforts. I took pictures with my little phone, of course not the best quality, and that's pretty good too! However I did not do the "before" pictures, just believe me when I say that this is improved. Not that anything was dirty, just cluttered. I did not find one single yucky thing, so good job to all!

Babies, Babies, Babies!

Okay, so to say the least I LOVE MY LITTLE GRANDBABIES!!!!!!!!!

Here I was trying to be so good, finally updating my blog AND adding pictures. So I looked at all the baby pictures I have and these three pictures are of my latest three granddaughters. Can you tell the difference?