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

Organized

Oh my, oh my...the New Years organizing has hit. The Container Store has their Elfa storage on sale, we took full advantage. Rob and I did some measuring and thinking and decided to get his closet done, half on my closet done and another shelf for the closet.
It really started on Monday. We tried to see Paddington but it was sold out. We came home and Ellie has really been wanting a desk for her room...we went shopping. We did a run around to the thrift stores and finally found one at Salvation. It is a cute, vintage, mid century wood desk. She is still thinking about how she wants to make it over - paint, stain, fabric.
Tuesday, Rob and I went to the Container Store to place our order. I picked it up on my way home from watching the girls on Wednesday. Mom and Dad came over for dinner on Wednesday. We played a couple rounds of Heads Up since the Middle was a rerun.
I was keeping up with my listing goals last week and was so happy to get a promo. I was able to relist all my unsold items and start selling them. Mom and I went out to run some errands on Thursday. It was nice to get out and spend the day together.
Poor Nick has succumbed to some bug. I kept him home on Friday and he seems to be doing a bit better now but still not himself. Rob and I put in the Elfa system on Friday. His closet has so much more functional space now. He hung my shelves and I can now fit all my sweaters and our bed sheets without them toppling down on me.
I guess all this organizing inspired Ellie because she started cleaning her room. We ended back up at the Container Store for a couple more shelves for her closet. She was a good sport and came thrifting with me. We had a great find day. Ellie spotted some great items, too.
Today, Rob and Ellie went to church and Nick and I slept in. Nick pretty much lounged around all day. I spent about an hour custom boxing a picture frame. Ebay sales totally picked up this weekend...love seeing stuff go out the door. We went to Mom and Dad's for dinner and came home and tried to get Nick to bed early.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

Sunshine

It has been wonderful for the sun to shining so bright and the temperatures warming up a bit the last couple days.
I did a bunch of listing this past week. I did a bit of thrifting, too. Very hit or miss - I either find a car load or nothing. Sales have slowed...I think holiday bills have come in and spending has ceased.
I ordered new curtains for the living room and back room. They were delivered this week and I ironed them and hung them- love them!
We were notified earlier in the week that Ellie, the alternate for the Spelling Bee, would be in the Bee. I went to watch her on Friday. She made it a couple rounds and I am so proud of her.
We went to see the dance show at Niles North on Friday night. It was a nice show, a bit long.
Mom and Dad took all the grandkids for an overnight on Saturday...thank you! Rob and I had dinner at Rocanto and then did some shopping. We found major bargains at Meijer. Rob found a couple pairs of shoes and I got Ellie some, too.
Meijer was so fun that we decided to road trip to a different one this morning after picking the kids up. Had another car load of bargains.
We all have off tomorrow and I think we will go see a movie.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

Back to School...

...well sort of. We finally got snow when the kids needed to go back to school. The temperature dipped quite low and the wind chill was dangerous this week. School was canceled for the kids on Wednesday and Thursday.
I was able to get back into the ebay swing and did some listing. The fast pace seems to be keeping up. I got some great buys on Friday. I think it was a combo of end of the year donations coupled with the polar vortex.
Rob has been working non stop. His big video was presented this afternoon and revived well.
We went to Mom and Dad's for dinner and the kids were super thrilled to see Tony and Teo. We haven't seen them in weeks. Great to catch up and see them happily play together. Mom made tacos and corn pudding...nice meal.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

Happy 2015

I had a wonderful Winter Break with the kids and Rob. We spent time with family and friends. We spent Christmas Eve with Mom and Dad and Jo, Ole and the boys. It was themed - Christmas around the world. We had breakfast at our house on Christmas Morning. We headed up to Wisconsin for a couple days after - got to visit with UB and catch lunch with Becki and Eddie on the way back home.
December was my best month for ebay so far. Sales just kept rolling in and I was not complaining. January has been just as active. I have had 26 sales in 4 days. I am looking forward to listing. I have accumulated some winners.
This week we have really just hung low and stayed around the house. We got our first real snowfall of the winter and the kids were so happy to play in it.
I think I am leaving christmas up until the weekend and working more on organizing and business this week. I did get all my year end accounting done.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree

Whirlwind Continues

It seems like a year has gone by since my last post. Time is certainly flying by.
Highlights from this week - Ellie's basketball team was in playoffs. They won one and lost one on Monday...and lost the final game on Wednesday by one point.
I have been busy with ebay. Between trying to get a couple more listings up, to shipping and packaging items up, to trying to organize to get our house in good shape for Christmas. Then all the thrift stores tempt me with Christmas being 50% off. I did some shopping this week, too.
I did kick butt and cleaned up the house. I have all but 3 boxes downstairs and massively cleaned the first floor.
I made a couple batches of applesauce for gifts and we started making cookies today. We are about halfway finished.
Merry Christmas to all, hope your week is filled with love and laughter.
Visualizing my healthy and continually healing body and the new normal, Tree