Garage sale-ing Saturday AM, for a grand total of $6, I found: 2 pairs of pants, a bat costume  and a space heater (all for C Monster).

I had to keep my lips tightly sealed at one point. Having hosted a few garage sales myself, I like to think I have some experience on the other side of the fanny pack. One of the hostesses at the sale where I found C’s pants was frugal beyond compromise. There was a man there trying to buy  a bag of clothes for his daughter and this saleswoman demanded he pay $35! Her argument was “Do you know how much I payed for my daughter’s clothes?” Ridiculous.

Next, we took a break from bargain hunting and went out to lunch. I have been craving sweet potato fries for about a month (BTW-I’m pregnant!). I found a restaurant near my preschool called The Filling Station that has a nice outdoor patio and SPFs. It was wonderful. It reminded me a lot of Cafe’ Gardens, back home (RIP).

The Filling Station is in this cute downtown-ish area of Winston-Salem called West End. Right around the corner is my new favorite consignment shop, Re-tale. I could let the owner of this place decorate my house. I really think, if I had the money I would have walked out of there with every household/furniture item that was for sale. Instead, with the $30 I did have, I bought a hamper to contain all the sporting equipment floating around our house and 2 cute candlesticks.

Here comes the best part…

On a thrifty kick, I decided to head to Goodwill and look for a shower curtain. That’s right. After 5 months of living here, we still don’t have a real shower curtain. I didn’t find what I was looking for, BUT, I did find a vase/bowl that I had just been eyeing at Re-tale for $2 (it was for sale at Re-tale for $8). I was so excited. I also found a Pyrex lemonade pitcher and a small wooden lamp base that one might find on Apartment-Therapy .

So I didn’t clean or grocery shop like I had intended. But, hey, when I do dust those shelves, now there will be a lot of cute items to decorate them with.

I find myself avoiding all the extensive topics I want to blog about because I know how much time it’ll take. I’m not one of those people that just writes as they think and then…boom! Posted! (Kind of like Michael’s “boom…roasted” from The Office) See, I’ve already edited this first paragraph.

Anyway, instead of some great story or update, I’ll just tell you:

Carver is grabbing everything out of my hands these days. He loves water bottles and cell phones. We’ve started him on solids. Did I already tell you that? He’s tried peas, bananas and carrots. He seems to really like all of them.

We bought tickets to see Harry Potter 6!!! I’m so excited. It comes out midnight of Carver’s half birthday. Any volunteers want to come babysit/spend the night at our house (I think the movie is 3 hours long)? You probably won’t have to do anything and I’ll make you cookies! She doesn’t know it yet, but I’ll try and trick Kari into it.

I have a side ponytail right now.

I’m so relieved with the state of our bedroom. It was becoming the project/junk room and hardly looked like a comfortable place for two newlyweds to relax. Ignoring my list of to-dos on Friday, I cracked down and rearranged. This also involved a lot of dusting and vacuuming as it had been a while. Saturday I tackled my surprisingly large closet that not only contains my clothes, shoes and bags, but all other kinds of random storage. Everything from Christmas decorations to beach towels end up in there because we don’t have the luxury of a linen closet. And honestly, with the 100 degree weather, there was not much else I would have rather done with my weekend. Mmmm, how I love organizing…

Going through my old maternity clothes brought back some fond memories, but who the heck let me buy so many maternity clothes? I had more cute clothes that fit me then than I do now.

Carver’s getting baptized July 5th. Ethan’s afraid I’m going to dress him up “like an angel.” At first I was a little offended by this, but thinking about it now, I’m very amused.

This is the kind of little stuff Lauren and I used to talk about when we worked for AmeriCorps together. I miss you, LC. I also miss working with other adults and kids I can talk with. I saw two old students of mine today. They were at my pool. I think its really funny that little kids have no intention of lowering their voices when they talk about you. I saw the older sister first and said, “Hi, Jane. Do you remember me? I’m Ms. Valerie.” She then turned to her little sister and said, “Erin! Its Ms. Valerie. I think she had a baby!” I was literally 5 feet away from them in the pool.