Rise and Shine!:)

Good morning:) Well, I've been up almost an hour (since a little after 6am*grumble*) but I've gotten a bit accomplished. A couple loads of clothes washed and on my 'Solar Dryer'. Solar dryer?? It's a washing line people! That made me laugh when I saw it online as a "Solar Dryer":) Anywhoooo.. I went and bought one yesterday morning to use while I'm finding someone to come look at my dryer. It's really cool out this morning and the birds are chirping and singing. I love to hear the Morning Dove. I got up, put my coffee on and turned on my laptop at the table. I'm listening to Daisy Cottage's music. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" just played and now we are onto Floyd Cramer:) Momma would love this:) I often listen to Sophie Honeysuckle's blogger as well. I love the music. It's easy morning music where you can just puruse blogs and have your coffee and toast. Very nice job on the music:) Moooon Riiiiiverrrrrr.....

Sarah, Jamie and I went garage sale shopping yesterday morning. Paul took Matthew to the mountain bike trails and Jamie wanted to play with a friend that I'm not really thrilled with him playing with. So, I told him "Lets go look for garage sales" and that's like telling him he's won the lottery:) That child (he's 10) loves a garage sale better than any adult I know. Needless to say he was much happier. They brought home all sorts of junk. Yes, junk. I think Sarah came home with plastic chicken nuggets and some sort of wooden hearts on a ribbon, a sleeping bag and assorted other odds and ends that a lady let her have. Jamie scored a few freebies as well but he also learned that a bargain isn't always the bargain you think it is. He was most upset that he spent 50 cents on something for his daddy only to find out the back was all nasty and falling apart when he took it out of the box. I felt so bad for him. He was devastated. I mean 50 cents is like 10 dollars to him. So I reimbursed him and he felt much better but now he knows the 'dark side' of bargain shopping (not to mention I have to go vaccum my car out now. The stuff is all over my backseat-yuck!) I came home with a gorgeous creamy white damask tablecloth. It's hard to find tablecloths for my table because it's wider than a standard table. So I found this and grabbed it. Then I found a silver tray and I'm going to copy from "My Romantic Home". Clink on the 'silver tray' link and you'll see. Mine is round though with beading around the edges. I thought it was such a cute idea though. I hope my turns out even an nth as good as her's did:)

Sarah woke up about 30 minutes ago and I'm already looking for the off switch to her mouth. This child does not stop talking from the time she gets up til she clothes her eyes at night. Even then, she talks in her sleep. She really does. She's doing really well in all day kindergarten. She has not, however, come home with 5 stamps on her behavior strip. There always seems to be that one day (usually Wednesdays) that has "Would not stop talking" or "Non-stop motor mouth". Just Wednesdays. Thankfully her teacher has known her since she was born almost and so she knew what she was getting into with her:) That always makes it nice. I would love to have an older house with character, but in order to do that, we have to move out of our town and school district and I just can't see us taking the kids away. Even if it's only to the next town (our towns all run into each other here. You never know when you're in the next one). So we are pretty much here. The houses are newer in our school district but they really don't have a lot of character and the rooms are so small! We would love to have a 4 bedroom house but I'm not sure that even exists over here, much less a 5 bedroom. 5 would be wonderful everyone would have their own room plus a spare for company. That would be ideal. But again, I'm not sure that exists.

Well the natives are all waking up and getting restless. So my day really starts. We may take them to see "Mr Bean's Holiday":) They've been looking forward to that--so have Paul and I tbh:) Have a lovely day!