Quick Takes Friday: Saturday Edition

Joining Jen at Conversion Diary for Quick Takes Friday, even though it's Saturday. I'm late to the party this week.

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Okay so I didn't get the job. I'm thinking 10+ years of retirement is a bit hard to come back from, no? I'm kinda sad, kinda relieved. "Back to Plan A," says Bill (which means he has to get a job!). Or perhaps God is grinning, because He knows that I'll be getting pregnant again any minute now. (Yikes!)

I'm debating my next move:
A) Apply for a different position I saw that seems even a bit more promising than the first,
B) Just keep waiting and trusting, cooking and cleaning,
C) Homeschool KLD and JPD next year, or
D) Take a nap.

Any advice?

~ 2 ~
Yesterday and today we're having a big garage sale. We cleaned out (and now to organize what's left) tons and tons of stuff from our basement and all our closets, which was a horribly painful process but--can't believe I'm saying this after how I felt on Thursday night--totally worth it. This is our 4th time to do this, and every time it feels like my house went on a huge diet. I love how Flylady calls it S.T.U.F.F.--"Something That Undermines Family Fun." So true!

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I've never lived anywhere else where Garage Saling is such a big deal. It's such an interesting sociological phenomena, I think. So much great stuff--and total junk--changing hands! It's fun--I always meet some new neighbors, and now when I drive around town I can think "my old college desk lives in that house" or "I wonder how the people in this house are enjoying our old kitchen table?" Only in America, no doubt! :)

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This weekend WWD has a basketball tournament that involves 3 separate 2-hour round-trip drives (one for a game last night at 10 p.m.!!!). MRD also has a soccer tournament with 3 games in 2 days, but much closer to home (and today she's even going with a friend which calms things down quite a bit). Man oh man, am I ready for our spring sports to be over...then we can start going to swim meets at 7 a.m. every Saturday! The fun never ends, right?

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I love April and May best of all. Although today we're having a ridiculously freezing and rainy day, the redbud trees and crabapples are blooming, there are tulips up everywhere, and the rhododendrons are just replacing the forsythias in everyone's yards. Glorious!

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I so want to take the kids camping when school gets out--I hope we're able to get away for a few days. Camping is a big Wisconsin thing, much more so than in Texas. I'm not sure why that is...Bill claims that it's because Wisconsin is prettier (Blasphemy! I could hardly even type those words!) but I think it has more to do with climate. Texas is just so much hotter and buggier, and then there's that whole rattlesnake issue. Texas seems more about hunting and fishing (although Wisconsin certainly has those too in a big way) and water skiing, etc. Texas also has the beach...

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Can I tell you how much I long for the beach? I do love Wisconsin, and we do have Lake Michigan, which has beautiful shoreline. But the seashore is a whole 'nother thing, and it's hard to get much farther away from the salty sea air than Wisconsin! Time for a road trip, for sure! (The camping trip is waaaay more likely I must say.)

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Now go see Jen for lots of great Quick Takes! Have a great week!