Yard Sale Junkie

If you know me well enough, you know that I love to spend Saturday mornings yardsaling w/ my boys. We'll get up, get in the truck and go. No where special in mind. Sometimes checking the paper for block sales, sometimes not. It's just guy time. My oldest loves going w/ dad. The youngest, will go often but not as often. I love this time for two reasons. One, I love a good deal and two, I get to spend time w/ my boys. Today, after yard saling (is that a word?) Our oldest and I ran some errands and he spent the afternoon cleaning out the garage and listening to CSUF kick UCLA's behinds on KMJ. It was a great afternoon. Our oldest is into erector sets and the youngest into connects. I had him put together a new toy of mine. He was in his element. They can do some amazing things with legos, connects, erector sets or anything of the like. We spent the afternoon cleaning the garage because, both boys love playing w/dads stuff and not putting it back in it's place. They have built benches, gocarts, popguns, marshmellow shooters, lanterns, and several other things that I cannot give a name to at the moment. In the garage any scrap wood, metal, plastic or otherwise is fair game. Nothing is sacred. I envisioned the third car garage as my "guy" space when we moved into this house. How wrong I was to assume that I would be the only one using it. Honestly, the boys probably spend more time out there than I. It's all good. I love it when they show me their creations. It amazes me what they are capable of doing/building/creating. I love my boys.

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O.K. so it's been a long while since I've blogged. Sorry. Attempting to get the school year started. No, that's not a good excuse. Kids? Wife? Work? Church? Not good excuses either. What's been going on since the last time I rambled? Many things. We have made it through another fabulous summer to once again start a new school year. Things are rolling along. Time goes by soooo fast. Theresa with her new job. Adjusting to her working full time. Not as bad as I thought it might be. But, she is working at a job that she really loves. She comes home so excited to tell me about the new challenges for the day. We sometimes compete for who can tell the most bizarre stories for the day. We are both in administration in the schools. Yes, I do believe that we are both crazy sometimes. As for the kids. They are great. I'm so glad God blessed us w/ our 2 boys. Yes, they try our patience at times. However, they are the best. Our youngest has lost his 2 upper teeth within a day of each other. He, being the clown that he is, is using that as a constant mode of making us laugh. He is the clown of the family. We need to give our oldest some more freedoms. We tend to over protect him. As my cousin said to me today. He's in 6th grade! Yes he is. Next blog: Info. on church life. Suspense will grip a few of you. Sorry, I can't promise a timeline. Look at me this last time. I think it took me almost 6 months to write this post.