Sisters

In case you missed it, the HOGS are 2-0. I love it when we all get to dress fun, and think happy thoughts, and call those HOGS!

DY-NA-MITE!

Richard and friends have put a girls soccer team this season. He is such a great coach, working on improving each girls' skills and having fun with them too. We are able to practice at the U of O that is close to the house, and has great fields. I've missed the first 2 games as they were on opening and closing weekend of my event. Ryan and Katelyn, and Grandma and Grandpa got to see the season opener in Conway and took some pics for me. On that particular day, Ryan even had to referee the game...not sure what happened there.

 

I can't wait to see DYNAMITE play this weekend in Heber Springs!! Go girls!

 

Tennis

Erin has taken up tennis this year. The girls played some this summer at the college and she decided this would be a good sport for the fall. She's OK, our team is OK, and it's all new to me. I've missed a few matches because of my event, but I'm going to work hard to make the rest. Richard says she's improved a lot since the beginning of the season, I'm looking forward to watching her later this week.

Maybe Soon

Clearly the title of our blog doesn't fit our family of 6. However, after 2 and 1/2 years of working through the approval process, we are MAYBE closer than we were last month. Yeah, not real clear to me either. However, the ladies from the DHS called us the week before our sale and wanted to come do our final home study. We know these ladies and they have been here before, so we explained that they could definitely come but we had 3000 items of clothing and other children's items filling two of our bedrooms, including the "boys" room. They came. We had our medicines put up, our fire plan posted and the knives locked up. It was the easiest visit we've had, even as we walked around the tubs of clothing and looked in rooms FILLED with clothes. We explained we would not be available for anything until Tuesday, the 17th. That is today. No call yet, and I'm not sure I would even be able to process a call now. I've got to clean up the hangers and other stuff in the back bedroom...a call would be exciting and terrifying all at the same time.

Rewards

Sheridan has been a HUGE help the last month getting things ready for our sale. Today was my first day home from our event, and I let her sleep in, we went to get our nails painted, and then got a movie for the afternoon. I worked on paperwork during the movie, then took a nap this afternoon. We'll be starting up school tomorrow, but it was a good day to just snuggle, rest and finish up some loose ends around the house. Sheridan was super pleased with her toenail art...I'm not a big proponent of pedicures for little girls, but it was the right day to have a big treat.

Event 11

Fall events are big. I like to prepare as much as I can ahead of time...but when folks start getting crazy entering items on a Labor Day...and I close the system early and still end up with 56,700 items...it's a hard week. I feel like I just had a baby...and I'm not ready to have another one anytime soon. Richard helped me SO MUCH during the week, we got to see Lauren a couple times and even her roommate came! Sheridan worked for weeks with me getting VIP items labeled here at home and printing labels for days before the event. My parents, Richard's parents, and Erin took a day keeping Sheridan during the sale. It truly is a family event. I'm thankful for my business, and more thankful to be able to come home.

Labor Day

I have been crazy getting ready for our event coming up next week. But labor day is a holiday for everyone and since I needed to go check on the building, we decided to get a good meal out at Cracker Barrel and talk Lauren into going with us. We picked her up, laughed through a meal and some sweet tea and then headed over to Tech. It was a beautiful day, and since that's where Lauren was, we pulled out the Bocce balls and played across the campus. Call us crazy, but call us family. We laughed with every horrible throw and tried not to hit any students out on the sidewalks. I played absolutely awful...could not get even close, but it was so good to be away from the computer and enjoy time with our girls.

REAL CRAZY didn't start until I got home and realized over 100 families were entering items on Labor Day and I had to put an announcement up that we would  close the database early! Oh my...let the sale begin!