day 75/365 stuff

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Today was a very exciting day. We are officially in escrow! WOW! Hard to believe. We entered escrow today on our current house and the house we are buying. Very fast and very excited. In an effort to clear out the stuff and begin packing...I started with Cassidy's play room. Needless to say, tonight, I went through 2 bookshelves and one other shelf with stuff. THAT'S IT! I have 30 days to go through all the stuff in our house and pack it. At this rate, I'll be done packing sometime in 2015...UGH. I need to pick up the pace.

In the midst of purging and packing the 2 bookshelves and one other shelf, I came across this...a box of littlest pet shop pets. A TON of them. I bought these for Cassidy for Christmas when she was 3 from eBay. I think I bought something like 100 of these little pets in a lot. Amazingly, they aren't all over my house. Instead, they are all together like one big happy family in a box in Cassidy's playroom. The reason why they are all together? It's because SHE DOESN'T PLAY WITH THEM!!!! I also bought the play areas for the littlest pets and have maybe 5 of them. They also lie untouched in the play room. UGH! Do I really bring these to our new house so they can sit in a box? Or do I sell them on eBay and use the money to buy a patio table for our new house? I'm thinking the latter. But the thought of doing that and photographing the pets and their parks and their clothes and their toys and putting them on eBay seems like a lot of trouble when I'm supposed to be purging and packing...and then, even if Cassidy doesn't play with them, I'll have to be stealth about putting them on eBay so she doesn't notice. Once I put them away, you know she's going to wonder where they went.

Ugh...My favorite pet? I like that pink monkey with the hair bow!

day 73/365 and now on drums...

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It's Cassidy!!

day 68/365 uh-oh

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Is this a glimpse into the future? After dinner I told Cassidy to get ready for her bath. When I was approaching her room, I heard chatter and this is what I saw...Laying on her bed with her crown and her bear with her Barbie "blackberry" to her ear. I wonder who she was talking to?

day 66/365 peaceful

Why is it that they sleep in on the weekdays and wake up at the crack of dawn on the weekends? This was Cassidy at 7:20 a.m. this morning! Totally asleep. Not even the sound of my shutter and click caused her to stir. I had to climb onto her bed and lay down next to her for her to wake up. And even then, it took some rocking around the bed to get her moving.  Normally, I'm a fan of the sleeping baby, but during the morning rush, I'm more of a fan of the let's get moving baby that rears it's ugly head on the weekends!

day 61/365 the owl

"A wise old Owl sat on an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke the more he heard, Why aren't we like that wise old bird?"
— Wisdom Quote

Nuff said.