I am sure everyone is waiting for the next "Browning" escape. Just recently, Jagoda has begun to harass me about my lack of blog updates. So sorry your highness! :) I the weeks it had been since my last post, I have been so busy I can't think straight. Peter has started first grade and Kaidence has started preschool. I have restarted my At Home America business and Hunter has started crawling and pulling himself up onto furniture. Garage sales have consumed my life as well. I am an avid hater of clutter and am usually prone to throwing everything out instead of donating it or selling it. Not good for charity and not good for the environment. Good think I am a Republican and don't care about the environment or the poor. This month however, has been entirely different.
As we moved into the new house, I found a new joy in enjoying extra space. Let me brag for a slight moment, because I am very proud of the place our family is in life. The new house is years old. The windows in it are huge and numerous, and the light is abundant. We have 2900 square feet, 5 bedrooms (all large), 3 full bathrooms, a huge landing for the kids to play, a huge basement, 2 car heated garage, vaulted ceilings, an actual mudroom and an actual laundry room, 2.5 WOODED acres, cedar siding...I'm spoiled! Except for a smaller kitchen....worth the sacrifice. So, instead of finding all new places where all our stuff can go, due to all the new extra space....I decide we need to get rid of it all! I want empty spaces (which there is plenty) and no clutter (again plenty), so I decide to make a garage sale pile. The pile increased over a matter of hours and we planned two weekends. I think more went to the garage sale than what was unpacked! Yea! And with a garage sale, I like to put rock bottom prices on everything so it sells! This give my mother a heart attack, because she can quite easily become one of those people "hoarder" shows! HaHaHa, sorry mom!
So, two weekends, a garage sale, an extra 500 dollars made, etc...moving one. Previous to the garage sale, I took a day off from unpacking and went to buy school supplies for the kids. While in the store, the kids were not listening, their new hobby, and I was going to drag them by their ears out of the store and shake them! (not really, but that is an accurate description of how I felt at the time!) So, as the naughty children of mine (Peter and Kaidence) were ducking under clothes racks and running around where I couldn't see them, I got fed up and it was time to have a "Meet with Jesus Talk" with my kids, in the privacy of our minivan. I go up to the counter, to checkout, and Kaidence walks up to a baby stroller and takes a hold of it and starts walking away with it. Before this sounds like something innocent, let me advise you of the conditions: Baby in stroller, baby did not belong to us, mom wasn't watching baby, once mom noticed....As mom is paying for her items, her back is turned to the stroller (retarded if you ask me!), AND once she hears me yelling at Kaidence, she becomes alert to the situation and freaks out. She starts waving her hands in the air and screeching. Not screaming, screeching, like an owl. All I can think is "this will end badly for sure!" I run around the crazy lady and stop Kaidence and she make her escape towards the door with stranger baby! I grab her, stop her, berate her, and explain that if babies do not belong to us, we don't touch them or their stuff. The entire store is staring at us, the stranger baby momma is pissed at me, and I am pissed. I dropped my purchase at the counter, let the lady know I didn't want them anymore, and the kids and I went to the car and headed home. If my kids cannot learn not the attempt to kidnap other people's children, then they can't have crayons for school! lol. Another day from hell, yet a great story later on! For this I thank my wild ass children, and their wild ass ideas!
