Today is SUPPOSED to be the start of my little break…sigh. Was supposed to be the 1st day of vacation bible school for the kids. They didn’t go.
I had them prepared. Well really only the baby 
The other 2 didn’t need much prep. They’re used to going to school etc…but Joe? He’s not. He’s not in pre-school yet. Has really never even been babysat. Sad I know. But that’s the way it is.
I have to say when we got up we did start getting ready and then I started thinking. That’s a dangerous thing for me to do sometimes! I remembered what it was like to go and then I got kind of iffy about sending them, after all I want them to have FUN!
When I was a kid we all went to vacation bible school. All of us were in church all the time, in Sunday school together etc… We all knew each other. That’s the way I knew it would be now. My kids haven’t gone to Sunday school (yes I do feel guilt about that) and they don’t know the other kids. For Joe it really wouldn’t have mattered much. After all he’s only 4. But the other 2? Yep. It would’ve been fairly obvious. I felt torn. Wanting them to go but not wanting them to feel the separation that I knew would be going on to some extent.
I tried to talk to dh about it but he said since I arranged everything I should do what I thought. Sigh….. I asked the kids. My oldest didn’t want to go. I knew that from the get go. DD wanted to/didn’t want to. She didn’t know! lol Joe didn’t know either. Well anyhow. They didn’t go. I chickened out I guess. ugh…would’ve been so much easier to go ahead with it if my 2 oldest at least would’ve been able to be in the same class, then at least they would’ve had each other when all the kids that were already friends ignored them. Oh well…maybe next time.
Last week I got a bunch of their old clothes, mostly dd’s together. We have a “consignment” shop around here that pays cash right away for clothes, toys, maternity etc… without you having to “consign”. Well dh and I are kind of in a financial pickle for a few weeks so I thought I could easily get rid of some of the overflowing clothes and have a yard sale with the rest of the stuff. Kind of as a “help” for the next couple of weeks. I spent ALL DAY getting this stuff ready! Washed some, made sure all the 2 or 3 piece outfits were together, etc…Finally got it all ready and took them up there.
Now I know that some of these consignment shops are picky. This one is to a extent. While they were looking at my stuff I looked around and figured I had a huge chance of getting rid of almost ALL of the 80 or so items I’d brought! I was WRONG 
It was sooo strange! I had heard all these stories about these places wanting name brand? Not in this case! At least not much! They took only a handful of stuff and almost NONE of it was name brand! They took stuff that my dad had bought from yard sales and given to us, some of it was “butt ugly” and a few were very faded. These were things I wasn’t even going to take but decided “what the heck” and took them anyway! lol 
I had to laugh because 1 little pair of capri pants I remembered buying at Kohls on clearance for 1.50$!! I had a crib set in there, it was Carter’s brand, comforter, sheets and crib ruffle, yellow gingham from JC Penny’s. It looked brand new! They didn’t want it. When I asked why the lady said it was “too plain” and that most people liked the character sets for crib bedding. HUH?? Well I guess I was pleased with the $27.50 I got for what they took. I KNOW when I have the yard sale this week I’ll probably end up selling more than that for less cash.
Got my MySpace profile looking better! It’s clean. Easy to read. I’ve still got some things I’d like to do to it though before I try and get in touch with my nephew through it. Was considering putting this blog link on it…hmmm….IF I do might have to go back and edit a few things for privacy sake. Anyway Janna asked for how to’s! Here it is! 5ThirtyOne. He’s got a few div overlays for MySpace that are just AWESOME! The one I took was the minimal lime green and he’s got the same one in pink or orange. Of course if you spend some time looking you can figure out how to change the coloring to just about anything you’d like. He’s also got a minimal dark one that looks great too! I did my own little graphic for a “header” and just left the rest pretty much as he had it. Least for now. I’d like to put up a slide/show or music widget but I haven’t tried playing with that stuff yet. Here’s my profile on MySpace if anyone would like to see or if you use MySpace I could always use a few more friends! Bad thing about this layout for it is that I think I have to manually go in and add my friends to my front page. lol! Wonder what people do that have TONS of friends and want to use the “white” layout?? I’ve seen a few profiles using this layout but they’ve got their friends showing on the front profile page. I’m not nearly adept enough at this stuff to know how they did it. If I get the notion I might try to find out! I’d rather have my friends on the front and be added by MySpace and not manually by me! lol Hope this helps whoever needs it
Now off to figure out what the cost will be if I advertise a yard sale in the paper. hmm…because of the “pickle” I’m not sure I HAVE enough to advertise in the paper! ugh…story of my life!
