March 1, 2015

This morning was a lot more relaxed than yesterday's,  but I still woke up around the same time. There was a great deal of boring tasks  I wanted to get accomplished today (folding laundry, paying bills),  but more important and exciting task was clearing an area for the bus when it gets here. I only have a carport and a third of it is for the bikes lawnmower and the weed-eater,  so I wanted to clean out the shed and get rid of stuff that I'll be selling to make room.  I also managed to fit into some shorts which are a little risky during this time of the year, but I think I am past the point of really caring.  If I can fit in them , that is all that counts.

The great thing about getting Mabi the ball thrower for Christmas is that once in a while she actually gets the ball in and so it throws the ball... but she and Anna and get so excited waiting for it and Annie's noise... oh my goodness.  She's a very vocal dog and that drives me crazy.   I wish the kids (meaning Ethan) wouldn't have opened up the box early, showing Mabi what it is.   First you need to train a dog to put the ball in the correct place, but that point is moot now...she tends to drop the ball in front of where it should go, so we end up putting it in the right place.  We are still needed for the self-sufficient ball-thrower..it's pathetic.. Today, I worked a little bit on teaching her the word "in",  which she did get a couple of times but still…

I have six boxes of Montessori material. That's not even counting my binders with all of my work in them... those are inside. I was contemplating keeping a lot of the stuff as  backup for Europe, but I think I'm just gonna sell it.  In the next couple of months, I am going to have a "moving sale" to prepare for moving,  but it's a lot of really high quality stuff. Ethan's drum set,  which we never sold, racks for bikes, beautiful candle holders: a pewter and a glass one, a lithograph, a painting, I have some original handbills from famous dancers, I have a 1957 calender with the most beautiful prints to frame. Because of various relatives,  I have more drinking things like lovely sherry decanters with etched glass..that type of stuff, but I can't get rid of those because it's from my family. So,  it just sits in my cabinet.  One day I'd like to have all my beer glasses from Europe displayed,  by then I'll probably be back in Europe again... I don't know.

I got everything cleaned out,  did a lot of physical activity today I went through a lot of childhood stuff again.. each time I get rid of more and more.  I'm doing quite well.  I also went through a lot of the Montessori stuff to see what I should throw out old work notebooks) and  what I should keep  for the sale.  Tons of Practical Life stuff and a soundbox...  I found a lot of quilt, which I'll put inside the bus.  I'm not sure how to decorate it inside yet, but  Heather Sabol said she would help me make new curtains for it! very excited about that!


I'll be in early night.. tomorrow the whole circle begins again.I'm very excited for spring break.  Want to head somewhere with the kids in the bus.  Maybe Utah.  We liked Moab.  I need to find knock-out drugs for Annie, though.  That dog gets way too excited....

Picture: Annie is plumb tuckered-out from the excitement of supporting Mabi with the auto ball-thrower.