Happy 8th Birthday, Nick

We celebrated Nick's birthday today. Nick's birthday closes out our March Madness.

Spring Break was much needed and wonderful. We road tripped down to Brunswick, Georgia. Rob and I honeymooned at Sea Island, which is just a couple miles away. We rented a beautiful house that backed up to a tidal marsh. It was fun to experience the changes first hand. Nick loved catching crabs and watching them sneak in and out of the tunnels. Although we had a pool, the weather was not ideal. Rob and the kids did the polar plunge on our last night. 

We visited Savannah, Tybee Island, Saint Simon's Island, Jekyll Island, and Brunswick. We traveled through the Smokey Mountains on our way down and Jefferson Forest on the way home. We spent as much time as we could combing the beaches for seashells. Nick loved finding all the jellyfish. Ellie created shell artwork in the sand. 

It was unusual for us to not really have a planned out vacation but much needed.we didn't really do museums or anything terribly educational but we had a blast. We wish it could have been longer but it was still great. Although we did stop into a couple thrift stores, I didn't really buy anything. I did experience my first Goodwill outlet. Wasn't bad but too much work for me.

We celebrated at Mom and Dad's house. Mom made pork, corn, potatoes, and salads. A MineCraft inspired cake for dessert. 

Looking forward to getting back into the swing of it this week.visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

Happy Spring

taking the week off to spend time with my family...catch up next week. Happy Spring!
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body, and the new normal, Tree

Happy 13th Birthday, Ellie

As I type this blog, I am now the mom to a teenager. Scary and exciting all in the same breath.

This week was so slow on ebay. Thankfully, it picked up and I am ahead of my goal by 3 days now. I did go out and shop a couple days, nothing stellar but a lot of little things.

Nick had an overnight with Tony and Teo on Friday night. Jo and Ole offered to take home for a boys night so that we could celebrate Ellie's birthday without her little brother. The boys were going to Minecraft and watch movies. Ellie invited a couple friends for dinner and hanging out at our house. 

Saturday we went to see Blue Man Group. Nick has been watching the commercial longingly for a while and he asked last month when we could go to see it. We had nice seats and I think we all really enjoyed getting to laugh, and let our inner kids escape for a couple hours. Nick and I went to buy part of his birthday present afterwards, his new bike. This was this first brand new bike. Ellie made their birthday cakes while we were out. 

Today, Ellie worked diligently on decorating cakes. She made a MineCraft cake for Nick and a One Direction cake for her. We stopped by the GGs to celebrate the kids birthdays with them. We went to Mom and Dad's for Sunday dinner. It was St. Patrick's themed with pierogis for Ellie and corn pudding for Nick. Great roasted potatoes and carrots, sautéed cabbage, and green noodles. 

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

16 Year Anniversary

On Friday, Rob and I celebrated our 16 year anniversary. Ellie had her middle school recreation night, but Rob, Nick and I went out for dinner. We all celebrated together on Saturday with some fresh cannoli. We celebrated at Family Sunday today. Mom re-created our wedding dinner and dessert.
I was busy this week listing. I had the free listings and got almost 100 items listed. I lost my motivation by the end of the week because sales have slowed down. I am not too far off my daily goals but I would much rather be above my goal. I have been able to list a few items locally and sell through our local garage sale site. Love cash and not having to worry about shipping and feedback.
Ellie stayed home sick on Thursday. She woke up with a headache and luckily it didn't turn into the normal migraine. By the afternoon she was better and helped me list.
I took Nick for a haircut this morning. He hasn't had one in a couple months and it was much needed. We can see his handsome face again.
We traveled West yesterday and had a fun day. Did some thrifting, shopping, and walking around. It was beautiful out...funny how 50* feels so warm.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

March Madness Begins

Flipped the calendar and entered March Madness. 

Did a bunch of listing and selling last week. I did some epic shopping Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I did my Unique round on Thursday but found out they were 50% off on Friday. Nick was my buddy on Friday and we kicked butt and found some great things. Rob was my buddy on Saturday - we started in Gurnee and worked our way around. The car trunk was packed with awesome things.

Mom and Dad came for dinner on Wednesday night. It was snowing like mad when they left.

Ellie was up and off to Springfield/St. Louis at 5:30 Friday morning. She returned this evening around 10:30. Sounds like she had a blast but I pretty much sent her right to bed when I picked her up.

Mom and Dad took Nick for the entire weekend, leaving Rob and me with time for an early anniversary celebrating. We went out for dinner both nights, Mexican on Friday and Italian on Saturday. Hours of uninterrupted conversation. Thank you Mom and Dad!

Going to list my butt off this week because I have 3000 free listings.

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