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Others writing The Sunday Somethings: Audrey

Something that made me smile this week: Watching Maddie and her best buddy Keira interact on Friday and Saturday on our mother/daughter sleepover!

Something I’m thinking: I am way behind on photo and blog stuff.

Something I’m hoping: To get a bit more caught up on photos and blog stuff. All of that can be pretty time consuming.

Something happening around the house: We had a new cleaning service come for the first time on Friday. So far, so good…of course, they are trying to ensure that they do an excellent job right now. Gabe started the deck refinishing process. Right now it looks to be about 50/50 whether he will do it all himself or hire someone to finish it!

Something I’m reading: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. I haven’t gotten very far, so I have some work to do for this month’s book club in less than 2 weeks.

Something tasty I ate this week: Birthday Cake ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery. YUM!!! I introduced Audrey to it on our date this week.

Something Maddie did this week: A few nights this week, she went back and forth between Mommy and Daddy giving out kisses. Very sweet!

Something happening with the pregnancy: Not too much going on this week, though we did think a little more about names. I’m not sure we’re that much closer to deciding, but we keep narrowing down the potential pool of names.

Something I struggled with this week: Backing out of our driveway. I managed to hit our CR-v with the Accord on Tuesday. Nice.

Something I’m doing towards my goals: I started working on the document to list all of our accounts to store in a safe place. Lately, I’ve realized that I think I’ve accomplished the “sleep 8 consecutive hours again.” Even once Maddie started sleeping through the night, I kept waking up every few hours. I guess I had been conditioned for so long to do this. Now I wake in the morning and do not remember waking up a bunch through the night…just in time for pregnancy things to kick in again. Anyway, I marked that one off the list.

Something I learned this week: The Museum of Life & Science in Durham is a pretty cool place! Maddie and I went with Keira and her mommy and had a great time exploring the exhibits. This was the first time that I had been to the museum, and I look forward to going back sometime with Gabe.

Something I’m looking forward to next week: I’m looking forward to the routine prenatal visit tomorrow morning and seeing family at the end of the week. My in-laws will be showing off their art in the Lazy Daze Art festival. Stop by and say hello to ShambroLa Wood Art on Saturday!

Something random: Audrey and I went to see Julie & Julia – cute movie! It was a perfect girl date!

Something I captured: The girls during our sleepover weekend. They were so cute together!

I’ll post some stories and tips from the yard sale whenever I get a bit more motivated, but for now here are some photos from before the sale and the day of the yard sale. Enjoy! Click on the photo to see the albums.

Others writing The Sunday Somethings: Audrey

Something that made me smile this week: Making over $3300 for the National MS Society – incredible!

Something I’m thinking: I’m tired, and I’m going to bed as soon as I finish writing this.

Something I’m hoping: I’m hoping to get back to normal life now.

Something happening around the house: We can see our library, foyer, and dining room again! The house needs a good cleaning, though…

Something I’m reading: I didn’t really have time to read this week, but I did buy The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie which is this month’s book club selection. I think I read the first page.

Something tasty I ate this week: Hrm, food was pretty subpar this week. I think I had cereal for dinner a few nights – we just didn’t have enough time with all the last minute yard sale stuff. Oh, but I did have some EXCELLENT lemonade that my brother-in-law made for the yard sale.

Something Maddie did this week: She got bit (in the back!) by a classmate for the first time. She has a lovely mark on her shoulder.

Something happening with the pregnancy: Um, oh yeah, I’m pregnant. New baby is about the size of a lemon.

Something I struggled with this week: Hrm, aside from the challenges of the yard sale, I struggled with writing this edition of The Sunday Somethings. I had a hard time getting motivated.

Something I’m doing towards my goals: The yard sale was a huge success. When I get around to it, I’ll post more photos and stories. It was certainly an experience. I couldn’t believe the number of people who showed up and bought stuff. Wow! Unfortunately, the photography class that I mentioned last week was canceled. Boo.

Something I learned this week: I learned a lot of things about running a ginormous yard sale. Since I will never do it again, I can only serve as a resource to others rather than apply the knowledge directly.

Something I’m looking forward to next week: Um, I haven’t even thought about this week too much, but I do have several fun things planned.

Something random: Craigslist is an amazing venue for advertising yard sales…at least in this area!

Something I captured: A shot of the crowd at about 7am on Saturday morning. Madness, I tell you. For over two hours, starting at 6:30am, I was doing transactions literally non-stop (with 2-3 people conducting the easy transactions in line as well). CRAZY.

Others writing The Sunday Somethings: Audrey

Something that made me smile this week: Maddie made me smile quite a bit this week. For the most part, we had a great time together. It was fun to see her interact with her grandparents this weekend.

Something I’m thinking: I’m thinking non-stop about this charity yard sale, and I’m pretty sure most of this post is going to revolve around that.

Something I’m hoping: Obviously, I’m hoping that the yard sale is going to make a lot of money for the National MS Society.

Something happening around the house: Our garage quickly went from a two-car garage to a one-car garage and is now a no-car garage. Donations are still piled just about everywhere, but it is starting to get a little more manageable…well, not really, but we have made progress.

Something I’m reading: I finished My Sister’s Keeper and went back to reading The World Without End. I’m torn about reading things like that. I really don’t feel like I have enough time to read anything too long or complex.

Something tasty I ate this week: We went to a wedding at the Biltmore Estate this weekend, and our dinner was very good!

Something Maddie did this week: She stayed with her grandparents while we went to the wedding. We didn’t quite leave her overnight. We left for Asheville from Davidson while she was napping and returned around 1am. She had a lot of fun with Nana and Bapa and apparently didn’t ask for Mama or Dada even once!

Something happening with the pregnancy: I got some new maternity shirts since I didn’t have much need for short-sleeved shirts in the first pregnancy. This one is one month earlier, and I’m showing earlier relative to the first pregnancy, too.

Something I struggled with this week: Gathering, sorting, pricing.

Something I’m doing towards my goals: Working like crazy towards this yard sale for the National MS Society (getting closer to that goal of raising $100,000 for the NMSS – obviously, I have a long way to go). I also signed up for a photography class that starts this week.

Something I learned this week: I learned that some people may actually want to pay good money for a high end stroller that is 20 years old. We’ll see if we can actually find a buyer as we have two such items in our pile of donations.

Something I’m looking forward to next week: Having this yard sale behind us.

Something random: Gabe’s coming around on my favorite road game, 20 questions. For the longest time, he refused to play. The last few road trips, I’ve convinced him to play a round or two. It’s better with more people to brainstorm questions (and we don’t limit it to 20), but it’s still a good way to pass the time.

Something I captured: This doesn’t come close to describing the madness that is our house right now. Just one of the photos showing some of donation central.