Resale Therapy

Sooooo, one of my absolute FAVORITE things to do is go shopping at resale shops and garage sales. There are some real treasures out there and the best part is that you can get some excellent deals!

One person's trash is another one's treasure! :)

Well, I kind of hit the jackpot.

With $20 I got:

1. A large, retro coffee table in excellent condition ($10) (Sorry no picture, but when I bring it home from the store, I'll post one)

2. Multiple picture frames (.25 or less each)

3. Two shadow boxes (FREE!)

4. Three candle holders (less than a dollar each)

5. A ginger pot (this may not be the right name BUT my aunt told me it's used to hold Ginger) (.50)

6. And some other odds and ends that I didn't photograph.


So, my brilliant plans include refinishing the frames and hanging them in our bedroom with different photos or objects hanging inside them--without the glass....yes, without the glass. Now, you may be asking yourself WHY a gal would hang pictures without the glass but let me tell you--I have a VISION!!!! Just trust me. When I get my VISION completed I will post pics so you can revel in my glory.  :)

I will keep y'all updated on the progress with my MANY, many, many, many, many projects.

Goodnight!

A Little Update From Your Old Friend....

Ok, so I know it's been A WHILE (to say the least) since my last post so let me give you a quick run down on the last 10 months.

Not much has changed! We were non-stop, full speed, running-like-your-panties-are-on-fire BUSY!!! Every weekend for the first six months of the year we had something going on-baseball, family stuff (two baby showers to plan!!), work, etc. Then came summer and that just flew by! When the kids are out of school, time seems to roll by so quickly that I lose track and then suddenly it's time for school again! Well, with August came school, football, work, birthdays, Halloween and now Thanksgiving is two weeks away!

*sigh*

I really need time to slow down! My younger stepson (B) is turning 9 next weekend which is NUTS! My older stepson (M) turned 10 back in September. It dawned on me during M's birthday in September that I have had the pleasure (and pain and frustration and tears and joy) of being in these boys, and their father's, lives for FIVE YEARS! That seems like forever to me! The boys were 4 and 5 when I came into the picture and that is so young! But in my mind they have been their current age the whole time. I can't really remember them being little. That sounds crazy, I'm sure but oh well. I must say though, that I absolutely love the ages they are at. The boys are old enough to dress/bathe themselves as well as get a bowl of cereal in the mornings and tell us if they feel sick BEFORE throwing up in the back seat of the car. But they are also old enough to have formed opinions, amazing and hilarious personalities as well as senses of humor which makes it SO. MUCH. FUN. just being around them!

On another positive and my-doesn't-time-fly note, my husband and I just shared our ONE YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!! This last year has gone by so quickly-I feel like we just got married! And I want to do it all over again!


Well, now that I think of it; there are a couple of new things in our lives--I have started back to school this semester (I had to take two pre-reqs) and will (hopefully! Fingers crossed!) begin Graduate School in January! I am so dang excited! I am going into a counseling program where upon graduation I will receive my LPC. Yay! And Byron completed his TCLEOS (I don't know if that's all the right letters and they may be out of order...) license, which means he is a peace officer. And he is now a reserve deputy in our county! (BTW a reserve deputy is a volunteer, basically, who has the same duties and responsibilities as full-time, paid deputies but just works when he is off of his regular job and does NOT get paid.) He has really enjoyed working with the Sheriff's Office and wants to go full-time so that may be in our future. :)


So I guess that is all that is new with me right now. I hope in the future I will be a regular blogger and I hope even more that I haven't bored you too much (and that I won't as we continue on this journey)! It really is enjoyable but I am just so pooped with every thing else going on that I put blogging on the back burner.

So, here's my early New Year's resolution: blog regularly. And by regularly I mean no more than a month between posts. That's reasonable, right??