I really hope this isn’t a preview of what this year’s hurricane season is going to be like here in Houston.

And being a mother myself, I can’t imagine ever having this day to only celebrate as a my mother’s daughter. I’m so happy that this day I am celebrating being a mother to the coolest kid I know.

And after unpacking my car I was like “Oh no, what if I can’t resell any of it? What if it is all junk?”….

After a few hours of organizing the things into four piles. Sell on ebay, throw into my next garage sale, freecycle & trash. The ebay pile was bigger then I would have thought. It included new & gently used children’s clothes (GAP, land’s end & Old Navy), maternity clothes (MOTHERHOOD mostly), a pile of VHS tapes (apparently people buy this on ebay in large lots), a stack of cassette tapes (actually these will probably not even make it onto ebay, need to do more research) and a stack of cloth diaper covers (enough to make $50 easily!). Lots of good stuff. Garage sale pile was mainly Target brand clothing. The losers of the batch? Ice-cream maker, some silly foot rest thing for a kid’s car seat & stuffed animals.

I’ll be happy to tell you guys how much I profit from ebay after all the auction are finished.

Oh and how much did I buy it all for?

$20.

Yup.

My dad hoards containers, I mean I like keeping jars as much as the next gal. But I opened the cupboard above the fridge and there was a plethora of jars & containers.I mean, I can’t move without hearing clinking of glass & fearing that I’ll drop them all on my head. Then forever be known as that blogger that died from an avalanche of jars falling on her noggin. Lame way to die really.

I love that a majority of the containers I buy food in can be saved. But I need some crafts to do with some of these guys. Big plastic containers store art & coloring supplies for us. Glass jars are great for saving leftover & taking tea in your lunch bag. But there are so many you can use before going “Alright, what the heck can I do with these!?!”. HELP! What can I do with these things? Arts & crafts projects for children are welcomed! Anyways…..HELP!!

After a bunch of snacking & playing we went back outside. This time we walked to the park to enjoy some more time outdoors. The boys love being outdoors. We spent awhile playing, swinging, taking pictures, chasing Micah’s balloon & laughing at the park. It’s so nice to enjoy time outdoors with the wonderful weather we’ve been having in Texas lately. My nephew (T3) was as cute as can be, I couldn’t resist posting his chub on here! Look at those chubby wrists, hands, cheeks, arms, belly….oh man and if you could have seen his LEGS! SOOOOO chubby!!

All Micah’s pictures are blurry, poorly lit or just plain crazy. He would jump on me, run, slide or do something else when he saw the camera coming. Sometimes that just happens. But, oh how I love his upside down picture that was taken as he tackled me in a slide.

Him climbing up a slide to get me with a missing shoe. He spent most of the time at the park with only one shoe, he didn’t seem to care but that seems fitting since he has Flinstone feet (got it from his mama).

Oh Micah, your pictures might not be perfect, focused or shadow free but I love that they show your playfulness.