I finished the (final) bathroom tonight. I finally got to cross something off my list! That makes me so happy. 🙂 I didn’t start either blankets though, I was distracted when I wasn’t painting. I looked up housing money for our possible new place we will live and walked around picking up random things, but not one full room. Tomorrow will be better.

I told my Mom and best friend which is a sign I can say it here now – we are moving. Probably next month, dh’s maybe new job should start in January, though the kids and I will be visiting family for awhile which I am so excited about. We get to live next door to my Grandma again, something I so treasured even if when it was happening it didn’t seem like that big of a deal. We get to live with my Dad in his big house and the kids can ride horse and play in his huge yard with their cousins – yay we will be around family again! Then we get to stay with my Mom enjoying her company before moving on to our final place.

All the while hopefully carting at least one large suitcase full of crafty goodness because our travels will last quite a while and how could I go that long with nothing crafty to do! I’m not nervous yet but I know I will be. I have barely started looking into moving because while the kids and I are off traveling, our stuff will have to be in storage at our new home.

Oh and in other news Alice’s learning is growing in leaps and bounds. I know kids are sponges and I’m so glad we started homeschooling early this year. After George’s death I just stopped doing anything teaching wise for at least a month. She still did a worksheet here or there but it was on her own and not of my teaching. We’ve been back to it for a bit and she is reading entire books (the learn to read book series we have), loves math (I’m debating if she is my child because of this love! LOL), wants to learn more “science stuff,” and is excited we are going to travel because she can “do homeschool” in the car. I’m debating having her start a blog – she loves the computer and is familiar with the keyboard though not a typer yet. I’m sure she would love it though.

So we are moving. But I don’t know when. And honestly, I don’t know where. There are two different scenarios at this point though we should know what is going on by the end of next week.

I spent my day painting the bathroom (it needs a second coat) and pretending knowing where we are going and doing research on that area. So basically what I took from the day is the paint.

I am going to start both blankets I mentioned earlier, tomorrow. One is a crochet blanket and one is a fleece tie blanket. I have two to make for gifts this year but need one more piece of fleece. And I still haven’t double checked my list! Shopping always makes me feel better (such a bad thing!) and I am so looking forward to the craft fair. Chris might go with us too so that will be fun. We need to do some touristy things while we are still here and have ‘free’ time.

I feel like I could type a lot and not really say anything so now is probably a good time to go to bed!

Did the time change today throw you off?

I woke up startled because I somehow realized the alarm was still set to go off. Of course after getting up and walking across the room to turn it off, I knew I couldn’t go back to sleep. I figured fine it’s 8:30, I guess that’s late enough – nope, it was 7:30! And I thought weekends were for sleeping in…

I am making decent progress on the craft room! I cleared up the pile of things that do not go in here and I’m sure I’ll find more. I found more scrapbooking items I need to get rid of and started wondering what, if anything, I will be able to take with me when we move. I know I haven’t said anything about the move yet – I will, soon. I was kind of in denial up until this weekend anyway.

Tomorrow I think we are going to work on some gifts and holiday crafts so I doubt there will be much cleaning. The kids both bought a wooden ornament at the craft store and they need to be painted! I need to check my Christmas list one more time – the craft fair is this weekend and I want to make sure I know what I am looking for, or rather who I am looking for. I just have nephews to buy for and two of them I have no idea what to get. I am determined to buy handmade!

Do you have a Christmas list made and have you started your shopping? What are you waiting for!