Yard Sale Time! Every once in a while we are able to have a yard sale at Nina's place to try and get rid of some things as well as help Nina get ride of some stuff. Unfortunately our timing for this particular yard sale wasn't that great because it was a really cold morning and the State Fair was still in town. We probably sold about $10 worth of stuff all together and had about 15 visitors total. This is not as good as we have done before. The last yard sale that we had at Nina's Matthew and I sold about $100 worth of stuff by ourselves. It was fun though and we always enjoy spending time with Nina.
I want to tell you all a little story about a day that I had recently, yesterday in fact! I'll start where my day always seems to start: Six am on the dot with a mouth breathing Isabella standing right beside my bed. Anyone else have one of those type of children? The ones that wake at the same absurd hour of the early morning? Both of my children have inherited that lovely trait from their father, not from me! Anywho, I could sense that she was there; standing beside me, staring at me, willing me to wake up. You know, that ability to feel someone's presence before you actually see them? Yep, that is how I wake up most mornings since Matthew left on his deployment. And so the day started! Conner was already awake as well, I could hear him 'talking' to himself in his bedroom. So in we went to get Conner up and changed to bring downstairs with us. Only problem, Conner woke up on the wrong side of the bed on this particular morning. So ...
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