Clutter

The title is fitting. At least it's where my mind has been lately. Have you ever really LOOKED inside your closets, drawers, garage, basement? And I don't mean opened the door, closed it, and thought nothing of it; I mean a why in GODS name do we have all this stuff? There are people who barely have roofs over their heads and food on the table, yet we have bags and bags of stuff we are getting rid of. Things we bought we didn't need. Wasteless money spent, ouch. ha. I think it's all the economy talk that gets our minds rolling, but I watch Suze Orman and Oprah and let me tell you they REALLY get your mind rolling. Suze Orman said it perfectly when she said we need to live simpler, go back to the old way of living, stop spending money you don't need to spend, put the credit cards away, oh and never lease a car-oops; I could go on. She is wonderful and everything she says is the truth. She had a great quote "When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins." We don't need THINGS to make us who we are. So I made a promise this year, you can call me the traveling garage sale hahaha. I am hitting up every family member with a good garage sale location and getting rid of this STUFF. I have my piles started in the basement, but I want this stuff out. Things we don't need or use GONE. So who wants to help? I am sure I will have a line waiting.

So on to the kids. Mr. Nicholas. I can converse with this child like he's an old friend. He thinks deep, outside the box, it's amazing. He asks me the good ole where do babies come from question and I had a hard time with that one. He knows they come out of my belly (luckily I have the scar to prove it), but when I got the "How does the baby GET in the tummy Mommy?" I was stumped. God's Miracle honey. It's all God's Miracle, can we move on now. ha. Oh, and when people get to Heaven, he knows were all going there someday, but he'd like to know "How does God come down, get all the people, and bring them to Heaven?" Seriously, how am I supposed to answer that. I don't even know the answer to that. Cheri gave me a good one there, the Angels come down and bring them home. Love that answer, except Nicholas would want to know why the Angels come down and not God and why can't we see the Angels, and when do they come? hahaha My little boy. Gotta love him.

Andrew...Busy busy boy. He takes one nap a day and works the rest of it. He is always on the go and climbing everything he can possibly climb in our house. You must keep your eyes on Drew Boy or you will find him starting to climb the chairs, or kitchen table, or the bookshelves, or nic's dresser to see the fish; but then there are the times it's really quiet and I think oh no, and I find him sitting in his chair reading books. He's talking quite a bit now and knows exactly what he wants. He will walk me to the pantry for food, he will tell me when he wants more, or when he wants to read he says book book and sits in your lap with it. He is really understanding us when we talk or ask him to do something. He just seems so tiny to be doing it. And my favorite right now is his "attempting" to sing. Lately he will sing "EIEIO" when Nic or us sings Old McDonald Had a Farm. Too cute. Can't wait for you all to hear him.

Well I will post more soon. I have pictures I need to get up here and a PLAYROOM TO REVEAL. Ahh it's near complete. I am just so glad everything has it's place now and it's so much easier to keep clean when you have shelves, etc. Kids LOVE it and play in there so much more.

Love to All