Chinese New Year

I feel like my posts are becoming a bit boring...good thing, bad thing...I don't know. 

Lot of the same old stuff this past week. Fiercely cold outside, bitter wind chills. I stayed in most of the week because of the cold. Ellie woke up vomiting on Wednesday. No headache so this must have been viral. Poor girlie spent the morning on the couch with a bucket at her side. Thankfully no one else picked up the germs and Ellie was back in school on Thursday.

I was able to get a lot of listings done while trapped inside. I just got a promo today and was able to relist about 350 items. Sales have been steady, too. Ellie came shopping with me yesterday and every store bought more great items. It has been a while since I had receipts with over 25 items on them! I will be busy listing this week.

Nick has been busy with his sound unit at school. He had to build an instrument this weekend. He chose a flute and we made it from a section of pvc. He was pretty happy with it.

Happy to report we got together for Sunday dinner and no one was sick! We celebrated Chinese New Year with Chinese food and drinks. The kids loved playing with each other. Nick and Tony were very busy building on MineCraft.

Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

Happy Valentine's Day

Not too much to share about this week. It was cold outside and I tried to stay inside. I took advantage of being inside and listed. It has paid off because sales continue to be strong.
I got to spend some time with Teo. Mom came down with the dreaded germs, so I picked Teo up. We played and had lunch together before I took him to school.
Did a bit of thrifting but sadly there hasn't been a fabulous find lately. I did buy a crapload of Disney plush at Salvation- already sold a couple.
We did Valentine's Day at home yesterday. Ellie helped me bake some cookies and chocolate dip strawberries. I made baked rigatoni, asparagus, fruit, and veggie meatballs for dinner. We stopped by the GGs for a visit.
Today we spent the day inside but went to Mom and Dad's for dinner. Mom made a great dinner with an equal amount of sweets for dessert.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

Nothing Creative

I am stumped for a title. Finally started to feel better toward the middle of the week but could not get enough sleep the last few days.
The month has started off well for business. I had some crazy sales, an Elmo Play Doh set, bought for 5.15 and sold for 115.00. I bought and listed a bunch of pillows on Friday, all sold on Saturday. I have to get busy listing this week.
Mom and Dad succumbed to the bug this past week so we didn't get together on Wednesday. We did all do Family Sunday today. We had a belated Super Bowl party with lots of finger foods. The kids loved to see and play with their cousins...it has been a couple weeks.
Really nothing else to share, slow week.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

Snow Bowl

We are certainly making up for the lack of snow this season. I am using the porch rail as a measure and it is well past 12". We have snowdrifts more than halfway up our 4' fence. And it is still snowing. The kids joyfully ran downstairs at 8:05 pm to let us know school had been canceled for tomorrow. An official snow day for them, Rob has a 2 hour late start.

I picked up Nick's germs this week and have had a drippy nose, aches, and cough. Ellie stayed home Friday with a migraine. It was that sort of a week. Tuesday, I went with Mom and Grandma GG shopping because mom's car had a flat tire. 

I finished January strong on ebay. I exceeded my goals! I maxed out my listings and buyers ate them up. February has started out equally as well. I am going to take advantage of Ellie being home tomorrow and see if she will help me list. 

Today we had church. We were on as the parents for Sunday School. Roads were gross trying to get there. Afterwards we went to Dean's for the girls 1st birthday party. The roads were no better. Milwaukee only had one lane viable in either direction. We stayed for a while and the kids played before we journeyed home. It took us a bit over an hour. We got home and had to walk through knee deep drifts to get to our door. Our neighbor, Bob, very nicely used his snow blower to clear a spot for our car. We decided to not try to go to Mom and Dad's for dinner after it took us so long to park the car.

Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree