Curls

Emily's favorite kind of hair is curly hair. I wasn't surprised that she asked me to put the curlers in her hair. However, I was surprised that she slept with them all night.

Here's the next morning:

Fall Festival

Library Night

Tonight was library night for Mrs. Baum's first grade class. At first, I was going to skip the outing since Emily is familiar with the library and the house needed my attention. However when I picked up Emily from the YMCA, she said that it would be fun to go the library. Then, I remembered that the house always needs my attention and I decided it was more important to take Emily to the library. I am so glad that we attended. We had a blast.

Here is a picture of Emily and Mrs. Baum. I can't say enough wonderful things about her. She truly is an answered prayer and Emily thinks that she is the best teacher ever. It's obvious from what I saw tonight, the other children think highly of her as well.
Here's a few more pictures from the night:



This picture cracks me up: Please note that I still need to give my house much needed attention. Ugh! I refuse to give up hope that one day either the house will clean itself or the cat will clean it. :) Thank goodness that Emily is a good helper.

Consignment Sale Pick up

Saturday night I finally sat down for a moment and pretended to watch few minutes of a movies. I can't hear the television very well so I normally don't even pretend. But I was so tired that I enjoyed just sitting down for a moment and my mind soon began wonder what I really rather be doing and I thought to myself that I would rather be at a scrapbook crop. Then I remembered why I wasn't which was because I had to go pick up my unsold items at the church. I looked at the clock, jumped up and yelled to Hartford, "I gotta go, I've got 15 minutes to get to the church and pick up my unsold items."

I rushed to the church. I wasn't the only one that was picking up their stuff at the last minute. I had two loads that didn't sell. Once I got home, I inspected the items and went over my list.

I picked up 90 items which means that I sold 244 items out of 334. That's 71%. I normally sell a higher percentage. Nonetheless, I am thrilled to no ends with what was sold. Most of the items that I didn't think would sell, sold. There were only a few items that I brought home that I thought would sell. However, I'm sure that some of the items were misplaced at the sale and potential buyers didn't even see the items. That's just a part of it. Sometimes I try to re-sale the items next time around but I usually, try to get rid of the unsold items. I don't price my stuff high so usually it isn't worth working with the stuff again.

I'm eager to get the check to see how much I made. I purchased a lot of items this season for Emily at the four sales that I attended. I don't anticipate the check to more than what I spent but I hope it makes a good dent in it. The only things that I anticipate purchasing for Emily are some tennis shoes (I didn't find one pair at the sales) and some turtlenecks to wear under some items that she has. I think that I did good.

County Fair

Saturday was busy with a capital B. We started out a little too relaxed. We slept late, played a little, Hartford cooked breakfast, we ate, and we started getting ready for the day. Hartford looked at the clocked and then things became fast paced. We hurried to finish getting ready, packed a cooler with water, packed Emily's swimming backpack, loaded our mattress and box spring in the truck and raced to the Good Will drop off location. Once there we dumped the box spring and mattress because they wouldn't accept them and then dumped some recyclable items into the recycle bins and raced to swimming lessons. Luckily, Emily was only a few minutes late. After swimming lessons we went to the county fair.

The county fair had rides, animals, crafts, ribbons, and food.

Yum! Emily had a corn dog, we all shared a funnel cake, and Hartford and I shared pork rinds and fried pickles. Emily didn't like the pork rinds and refused to taste the fried pickles.
Chucky Cheese went bad and threw Emily in jail.
Once we broke her out of jail, she enjoyed some rides.

And she enjoyed some rides with Dad.Please notice the look on her face. She does not want to ride the roller coaster. She hates roller coasters. After the ride was over she announced that she does not want to do that ever again.Lilly and her Mom Kristy came to play too. I suppose that Emily didn't want to be shown up by a someone younger than her so she rode the roller coaster with Lilly several times and just notice the smile on Emily's face. She actually wanted to ride it one more time before we left.
Here are some pictures of them riding other rides together. Luckily, it was pay one price for unlimited rides. The bad news, it was hot and I got sunburned and since I was wearing sunglasses, I look like a raccoon. I've been endlessly laughed at. Even the cashier at Wal-Mart laughed at me. I'm sure that it will peel soon. Tanning is not one of those things that I do well. :(

Swimming lessons

Emily admitted that she had a better time at swimming lessons this morning. I try to keep telling her that practice makes perfect but it goes in one ear and out the other. She doesn't like to put effort into things.

I noticed her at one time when she was swimming free style without a board, she looked up, saw the side of the pool close by and went under and swam perfectly underwater for that last little bit. I questioned her later about it and she acted like she didn't know what I was talking about. I told her that I thought that she had an easier time swimming underwater than on top of the water. She grinned a sideways grin and said, "Yeah."

Sleep number mattress

Last weekend we decided to invest in a new mattress. The sleep number mattress was what we decided to get. Instead of waiting and having the company deliver it and set it up, which would have been more expensive, Hartford had it delivered by UPS and he put it together. It came in 5 boxes. Emily had a blast playing with all the boxes.
Here's a picture of the mattress without the cover on it.
At bed time, Emily had to carry all her stuff that she drug out back to her room. She had to made six trips. Honestly, she is more content to play with craft items, pillows, blankets, stuffed animals and boxes than other toys.
How did I like the sleep number mattress? Well... Honestly, it's going to take some getting used to. It's lower than our old mattress so I sort of felt like I was sleeping on the floor. Plus, with it being so much lower, I'm going to have to find a new place to fold laundry.

The consignment sale loot

This afternoon I got to shop early at the consignment sale since I was a seller. I ended up with 38 items for $107.59. The loot included two Christmas jumpers, three pairs of pants and a bunch of shirts, sweaters, and jackets. Not shown are the American Girl doll items that I purchased, they are hidden for Christmas.

Consignment sale update and a little mud

Yesterday evening around 4:00, someone in the office announced, "oh, it's raining." Since Georgia is in a drought, rain is always welcomed. However, I had 334 items to drop off at the church for the sale. My thoughts were, "surely it will stop raining by 5:30." As, I headed out of the office, there wasn't a drop of rain that was falling and I was extremely pleased. I was feeling pretty good about things and just knew that I was even to get a parking spot near the drop off entrance.

I counted my blessings too soon. By the time I arrived at the church's parking lot, all the close parking spots were occupied and it was sprinkling rain. I got out of the Equinox and grabbed a box and thought that the unloading and the rain were not going to be too bad. However, the rain was somehow connected to the rain and with every load, it rained harder. I had a lot of loads and I was soaked by the time I had carried everything inside.

But my spirits were lifted by the lady who checked the clothes, she said, "Wow, did you dry clean all of this items, they look amazing." Her comment made me smile ear to ear. I didn't dry clean the items, however, I am a little picky when it comes to Emily's stuff. I don't try to sneak items into the sale that are stained and I iron everything to make it look it's very best.

Then, if things couldn't get better, they did. The owner of the sale decided that one of my items that was priced $10 was a must for her daughter and put it into her pile to purchase. How cool is that?

I ran out once again into to pouring rain and got into the Equinox. I was so thankful that the lightening didn't zap anyone. It was a little scary.

I was looking forward to getting home and out of the rain. I was singing to the radio when I remembered that we needed milk. I tried telling myself that we really didn't need milk because the rain was pouring so hard and I just didn't want to get back out in it. But, Emily's disappointed little face came to my mind because she dearly loves her milk with her meals, especially when it's chocolate milk.

Luckily by the time I stopped at Wal-Mart, the rain came to a halt. I ran in and gathered the milk and several of items of need and then I rushed to checked out for a speedy check out. The moment, yes the very moment that I swiped my debit card, the registers lost power. So, I waited and waited and waited right along with all the other customers. I had a lovely conversation with the cashier. She has worked at Wal-Mart for 14 and 1/2 years, and she has a grandson that is 2 and 1/2 that is the apple of her eye. Likewise, she knows a lot about Emily.

At last, the power was restored. But the credit card/debit card thingy wouldn't work on the register that I was at. The cashier asked me to give her my card so that she could run it through the register. That didn't work either. So, she handed my card back to me. But as she handed it back to me, she dropped it between the register and the bagging area. After want seemed like hours, the assistant manager located a screw driver and preyed the bagging area away from the register and retrieved my card. I was relieved. Then, I had to wait longer so that I could check out, again.

The only time that I lost my patience was when the greeter demanded to see my receipt as proof that I had paid because I had had those environmental friendly bags which may I add, I had to bag my items myself since I used them instead of the plastic bags. Ugh. I took a deep breaths as I left the store.

Moments later, I turned into the drive way to see Emily in a bathing suit trying to surf the water that had gathered in our drive way. Since that really wasn't working for her, she decided to play in the mud. Before I let her in the house, I took the water hose to her. As I carried her to the bathtub, I told her, "don't touch anything."

By the way, Emily drunk two glasses of chocolate milk with her dinner so the hassle at Wal-Mart was worth it.

Sunset in Snellville

Sunday night, September 7, 2008

Bug antennas

On the way home from church Sunday, Emily declared “I just don’t get what pipe cleaners have to do with God.” That night she made bug antennas. She was truly inspired.

Consignment Sale

August 3rd, I gathered, hung, tagged, and sorted Emily's fall and winter clothes that were too small and then I took them into the attic to wait until today. That was the easy part.The hard part was gathering and tagging the other items such as books, toys and shoes. Today, was the loading day. The trunk and the back seat of the Equinox was full.


I had 334 items listed on 13 pages.
Tomorrow, I'll drop these items off at the sale place. It's a lot of work, but it's better in my opinion than having a yard sale because you get more money for the items and you sell more items. I'll get to shop earlier than the general public which is a well worth bonus to me. I usually sale 80% of the stuff that I take, which covers what I spend at all the consignment sales of the season. Therefore, I think that it's worth it.

The craft room

Since Hartford is no longer working at home, he agreed that the orange room could be turned into a craft room. It is so much better to have all these items in one room than having them located all over the house. Emily even does her homework here.
Wow, I didn't even know that I had so many scrap books.
I put a lot of Emily's craft items in here and labeled them.
This has not been an easy or a fast project. Everything still doesn't have a home, but at least we can work on some projects.

Another Blog

I've had a crazy idea to start another blog. My goal is to take a picture a day for a year and post it to this blog.

http://susanrhight365.blogspot.com/

I'm excited about this project.

Oh, it's hot out here.

"Oh it's hot out here, Mom. I need a Popsicle." I agreed that it was hot and I had a Popsicle too. Unfortunately, the Popsicles were a little on the frost bitten side.

Happy Fall

Happy Fall. Here's my mantel. I've been working on it for at least two months in my head. Emily tells me that the angel doesn't go with everything else. But, I love that angel and besides, it would take me two more months to figure out what put in its place.

Mrs. Santa Claus

I was dragging out some decorating items so that I could decorate the mantel for fall and there were a few Christmas items in the box as well. We picked these Santa items up at a yard sale this summer. Emily has definitely got my dollar's worth out of them and Christmas is not even here yet.

Swimming Lessons

Saturday morning I nearly had a heart attacked as I looked at the clock. I immediately dashed into the living room and informed Emily that it was time to go. We rushed upstairs and I grabbed the first swimming suit available for her and she jerked it on. Then she ran down the hall and down the stairs trying to put on her shorts and shirt as she went. I hastily gathered up her swimming gear and threw them into a backpack. Once in the car, I prayed all the way to the pool for the traffic lights to stay green.

The clock in the car flashed 10:00 as we pulled into the parking spot. We ran to the entrance to be met by a mother with her two daughters that informed me that the swimming lessons were canceled due to the holiday. The lady and I were both relieved that we were not the only mothers that didn't have it together. Our vibes were telling the other that we should form a club and call it the "Not all together Moms Club" but we couldn't because we couldn't get it together to do such a thing.

Once in the car, Emily lifted her hands and shouted "Praise the Lord! I hate swimming lessons." I told her the she cracked me up and she replied, "my pleasure." I laughed all the way home.

Labor Day

Wow, it only took us 35 minutes to get to downtown Atlanta this morning. We enjoy the aquarium especially when there isn't a crowd. We got there around 8:15 this morning and it was perfect. We got to see everything without getting knocked this way or that way.

Here are the pictures from our adventure.

I was thrilled to get such a good shot of this octopus. It was moving fast to get from one corner to the other and once it is in a corner it curls up and it is hard to tell what it is.
I've mention this before, I'm sure. But just in case that you have forgotten, I love watching the sea otters. We got prime viewing and they were quite the little entertainers today.
Here's my little poser in some shots.


Emily likes these little fellers. Me, I don't like them as well, but I think the shot turned out well.
These are interesting fish. They stay in their holes their entire lives if possible.
Jelly fish are very hard to photograph, but I managed to get this one that isn't too bad.
Emily had such a good time. We enjoyed watching her enjoying herself.