love to hear from you!

Well, my dear friends and family, it is always fun to see what posts spark people's interest and lead to comments.  I loved hearing what you are all working on this week!  But either Blogger is still having issues or our computer is struggling with cookies or something, because for several days now I can't leave comments on some blogs.  Not all of them, just some.  And I found out just now that mine is one of them!  How bizarre is that?  So here are my comments to that last post, just so you all know I read and appreciate them:

Susan, I am sure Luke will appreciate the "new" office when you are all done--for all the time he spends down there, your efforts are really worthwhile! I hear you about the old meds. Ugh. I am very sorry you have to do it, but surely it will feel good to have it gone. You have better things around with better memories.
Thanks for sharing your purging!

Stacy, hermit crab cages count.  And do write about your further purging on your own blog when you get it done--I will celebrate with you!

Gabe, I am so sorry you have so much to do, and we are just too far apart from eachother for me to offer to be helpful. : (  I will pray all goes well with all those things you mentioned--all big deals in themselves, rather overwhelming to consider all at once!  Esp. the baby and moving--I packed up and moved out here to CA when I was 8 mo. pregnant, so you have my full sympathy.  In, fact I am praying now, and will continue to do so until I hear otherwise!  Oh, and YAY on the leggos!!!!! 

Mom, I love it that you and Dad are enjoying the blessings of giving on freecycle--it feels so good, and I get a smile from thinking of you two being blessed as you bless others. : )  Don't worry, I am actually not stressing about your visit--you and Dad have seen our house at its very worst, when we first saw it!  But it is more that improvements have been going v.e.r.y. s.l.o.w.l.y. in the past couple of years, and so this visit--esp. Rebecca and her girls making what will probably be their *only* visit out here--is a really good excuse for getting us going.  All the things we are trying to do are things that we have been wanting to do for YEARS.  Might as well see what we can do before you come!

And YAY about Ligia!  : )

Rebecca, like I just said to Mom, your visit is an excuse.  I am so looking forward to you coming, and am not at all stressed about you seeing the house--it will be what it will be (but hopefully that will be better than it currently is!).  I am working on the bathroom door!!!  Have picked out the door hardware, just need to finalize the measurements and get it ordered--hope it comes in time for us to build the door and install it!  (or maybe we can put Dad to work the first day he arrives--hate to do that, but he might be just as eager as me to do it. ; )

By Rustica Hardware, a mom and pop shop in Utah

And Rebecca, it sounds like you have a LOT to do!  I hope you have a nice break without kids this next month, and get lots done.  I hear you about feeling guilty for working on your garage when so many people don't have houses [readers, Rebecca lives in Tuscaloosa, AL where they just had that terrible tornado a few weeks back] but what a perfect time to do it--every moment you will be thinking of your blessings and being thankful instead of grumbling about having to do it! 

OK, now I'm off to drop off some freecycle myself and go buy some flowers for my garden!  Gotta get those hanging pots full of beauty and back up in their places!

(It just occurred to me, Rebecca, that it is a little weird me telling you all the things I am doing to fix up my house before you see it--normally we do so but try to pretend that it has been like this forever So when you do come, just pretend the clean and neat house (as much as it will be) represents the way we really live, and not just when we have company.  ; )

All of you reading, thanks for stopping by!  But thanks even more for sharing a little bit of yourselves with me--that adds the girlfriend element I love!  Have a great day, however you are spending it.