Happy 4th

Lots of the same stuff happening around here. Listing on eBay, shipping items out. Cleaning and organizing the basement. Gardening and playing outside. Ellie is helping me this summer list on ebay. We had our first learning experience on Thursday...she got about 6 items mocked up.
Friday was a very busy day. We started out at the church carnival...Ellie was firework fashionista and Nick was pedal power. Although they didn't win in an actual category, they both got to pick a prize for participating. We went to the Skokie parade, we met Mom, Dad, and UB there. It was a lovely day and the parade had some new entries. We went back to church for the races and to visit with friends. Nick won 1st place for his running race and Ellie won 2nd place. Rob and Ellie did the egg toss but didn't make it into the finals. We picked the GGs up on the way back to Mom and Dad's for dinner. We had a great spread of food and Kathryn and her boys joined us. The kids tried to catch butterflies and lit sparklers. We ended the day with the Skokie fireworks.
The basement is now 95% cleaned and organized. We went through and weeded out games and toys for our future garage sale. We moved some cabinets around to better organize my ebay boxes. We went to Mom and Dad's for dinner tonight and got to see the caterpillars starting to form their chrysalis. We grilled and ate outside and the kids ran around and got sweaty.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree