Don't you just love ebay!

Well lately one of the major thrills in my life has been selling things on ebay. When some old kids clothes sell that is great but my favorite thing is to sell stuff you find really cheap that lots of people have a hard time finding. My best friend does this too and last night one of her items that she purchased for $6.00 sold for just over $89.00.....can you say WOW! I have an item very similar selling but smaller. I hope to get $45-55.00 out of it. I paid $3.00. I get a lot of the things I sell from flea markets and estate sales. I don't sell tons maybe 4-5 things a week. It makes enough money back to get extra stuff like Kate's shoes for my Father-In-Law's wedding next month. Lovely shoes there are those Cinderella glass slipper like shoes. They will look so cute on her in that flowing royal blue dress.


I finally got our artwork from Arkansas hung up and the rose/grape swag done. I think I can still combine the two themes to my satisfaction. The paintings just make the roses a dominate theme but the subtle addition of the purple grapes just add a punch of contrasting color.

Hope you day is rosey!

Candice

Harry Potter and Cleaning House

Well I am back to being all alone during the day. The last three days have been.....Well kind of strange. I don't have kids to care for which really is a bad thing. They always kept me motivated now I am back to DVD's for company. I have resisted putting in White Christmas my usual pep me up. I will find myself longing for the holidays when it is only the beginning of August and I can't really put up harvest decorations until September. So I recently (against my better judgment wanting to wait until the special edition came out) purchased my least favorite of the Harry Potter Movies The Prisoner of Azkaban. It has a good soundtrack and I can critique it more openly. I have found a few things in the movie the screen writer left out that were important facts about the story. Like who Masters Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs were and why Harry's Pontus was a stag. Things like that. I opted my second choice to be Green Card. It also has a great soundtrack and just touches my heart.

I managed to mow the lawn before it starting to pour down rain this morning. I just HATE mowing the lawn. I would rather clean the catbox with my bare hands. I have the worst blisters from pushing that thing around. The one on my thumb is about the size of an elongated dime.

I am waiting for Amie (my best girl friend from high school) to have her ebay auctions end. We sell very similar things and since her auctions end at 9pm I need to wait to list my items to hers have a chance to be bid up. I was so glad to see Carsen (her son my nephew) He is 6 months old and getting so big. The 6 months age is such a fun age where they smile at almost anything and have such a personality.

I took this picture of him in my Mom's livingroom and then edited to add this background. I think he is just the cutest thing. MY NEPHEW he is!

I am needing to work on laundry today but I also need to work on my desk and make another attempt to organize again. I will try to multi task but always one project gets pushed to the wayside.

Hope your day is filled with excitement as mine is a little grey and drab. Maybe I will put in White Christmas to get me feeling more cheerful. Lately with being sick and being alone during the days I have been fairly down the the dumps. I pray that my babies are safe and protected from the bad things I cannot protect them from.

Candice

Sending them back to chaos

I just don't know. I think I will always start out a BLOG out that way when I am this emotional. Kate and Evan go back to their Mom's today and it just breaks my heart. Prayer is the only thing that is keeping me in one piece right now. I am sending them back to fear, and neglect and there is nothing I can do about it. No judge thinks that the lives of my children are in any grave danger so it is ok to treat them the way their mom and step-dad treats them. I don't think so and neither do my close friends whom I have spoken to this week. I just keep praying the children remember where home is. I pray that they are protected and kept from harm. I pray that their personalities and attitudes are not changed due to the negativity and lack of Christian up bringing they experience there. I you are reading this please pray for my children.

I have written the teachers of K&E letters and am sending them self addressed envelopes for this year. I hope they send us even more than last year. I asked them both to keep their eyes peeled for signs of abuse and neglect. When you are only with your children 6 days a month on average it is hard to know just how they are being treated at their other house. I am glad that E. has Mrs. Clifton this year. Mrs. Clifton was K's teacher last year and had a good amount of knowledge of this problems and I think she will really be able to help him in his second year in second grade.

Church was great today. Having our Adult Bible Fellowship group back in action is such a wonderful thing. We have really missed them over the summer. I hope to get my DH more connected to one or two of the guys in the ABF even if it means getting him a little interested in sports (yuck). Oh what a woman does for love.

I hope to spend the rest of the afternoon in Neverwinter again. Brandon tells me there are 5 chapters in the game and I am only in chapter 3. I didn't think I would like this game but now I have tweaked my character to almost demi-god like status I am quite enjoying myself slaying dragons and orges.

DH starts car pooling tomorrow. That means getting up a whole hour earlier! OUCH. I am not looking forward to that. Well at least I can go back to bed and sleep a little longer. I think I will get out in the garden tomorrow, no excuses. No matter how hot it is I will fix a large bucket of ice water and just stay outside for at least 4 hours. My tan could use some more work and the weeds need to come out. More mulch and lots more fertilizer. I don't think I will be able to show any roses in September like I planned but I can at least give them a fall boost before the cold weather sets in.

I pray your day is blessed!

What on earth am I thinking?

Well I guess I created a BLOG. I don't know what possessed me. Brandon my DH (Dear Husband) said he was starting one and I knew others that had one and I just thought "Why not?" Yes I just quoted my thoughts..........

Today is really layed back. I really want to play more Neverwinter Nights on the computer but as a wife and mother of 2 the grill is what is on everyone's mind. I am grilling chicken tonight. I love BBQ. I use Emeril's Essence as a dry rub on the chicken then I baste what every honey BBQ sause I have at the time. Basicly what ever I get free. I love coupon shopping and right now Cattleman's BBQ has $1.00 coupons everywhere and thanks to double coupons I have somewhere between 5 and 10 free bottles of their Honey sause in my pantry. I will be sad when it is gone but it lasted me the entire summer BBQ season. Brandon says I am getting better at grilling then he is. I am really proud of that comment.

I am resisting the urge to start playing Christmas Music. I realize that it is August but I really need some White Christmas.

My kids go back to their Mother's cramped appartment tomorrow after spending 8 weeks with us this summer. I hate them going back to that situation of their Mom and Step-Dad yelling at each other every day, Cereal with no milk, and Kid cusine or pot pie every night. I know that Kate dosen't want to go and Evan dosen't care. I think he is looking forward to the lack of disapline. I hope the money we spent on Sylivian Learning Center this summer pays off for him. He has to repete the 2nd grade this year. His Mom is just not helping him.

I know I am going to cry tomorrow when they leave. I am going to sit down with the 1/2 gallon of Praline Carmel and cry. I want what it is best for them but sending them back just seems wrong. I wish something could be done before their childhood is over.

Candice