Busy

Dan is on vacation, but I feel like all we've done is work!  In preparation for hurricane Irene I decided I needed to do all the laundry early and clean out the basement.  After spending several hours in the basement it looks about 10 times worse than when I started, but the 6 loads of laundry and the diapers are washed.  Tomorrow we'll get the boxes up higher in case of flooding.  I signed up to consign at a local sale and I decided I should go through all our bins of clothes to see what we could get rid of.  Now there are piles for Goodwill, piles for the consignment sale, piles of homeschool curriculum to sell online and piles of trash.  ugh.  I decided today that I'm a craft horder and need to call TLC.  I had no idea how much craft stuff we had until I started finding boxes full of it!  Thea my crafty girl was getting so excited and I don't know how to tell her that we can't keep all of it.  Our house in Hawaii will be so much smaller and we really need to downsize.  While it's hard getting rid of things that I really would like to use, it helps me to remember that less stuff means less time dealing with the stuff and more time for the children and things that I enjoy. 

We also got a ton of produce from a local farmer to freeze and store for the winter.  I have wanted to do this for awhile, but I don't think I realized how much work it was going to be.  Thankfully, I have a take charge husband with a lot of energy who cut up 30 onions, 30 green peppers and a bushel of summer squash.  He even blanched and bagged all the squash!!  I don't know how I could have gotten it done without him.  Tomorrow we have another bushel of squash and 24 lbs. of green beans to store. 

The children are sick.  Well, three of them are.  Poor Ashton has it the worst.  He has a fever and big sores in his mouth that make talking and eating extremely painful.  He sat on the couch all of today and watched movies and listened to Adventures in Odyssey.  I am praying so hard that he feels better tomorrow.  I hate seeing my sweet boy in so much discomfort. 

It is bedtime.  I can hardly keep my eyes open after our big day.