Goodwill Hunting

So much to report since last time...

Today, Violet said, "Sadie" clear as a bell AND walked using her walker for the first time! It was very exciting. The PT was here today and that's what she worked on with Violet. Violet didn't want to have anything to do with the walker at first and fought her every step of the way. She took a few steps and then would throw herself on the floor in a tantrum. When Michael got home, I told him about it. He said to Violet, "Can you show me how you walked with your walker?" She looked at it, crawled over to it and started pushing it while on her knees, then stood right up and walked all the way across the room. We were all so proud!

Sadie is going to her first "slumbover" party this weekend. I swear, that kid needs to write her own dictionary. She is very excited.

I have been on a cleaning and organizing mission these last few weeks. If I didn't know better, I'd swear I was pregnant and nesting. Rest assured, the vasectomy worked (at least so far). I have felt the need to get rid of as much clutter as possible from our house. It's really true what they say about physical clutter causing mental clutter. I feel so much better. I threw a bunch of stuff away, took a fair amount to consignment (which was pretty much a waste of time) and a ton of stuff to Goodwill.

In my purging frenzy, I accidentally took our unwanted cable box to Goodwill, thinking it was an old DVD player. Michael had been planning to take the cable box back to Insight because we didn't need it and were paying for it. I thought he had already taken it and mistakenly thought it was junk. I went over to Goodwill today and it was nowhere to be found. Some joker scored a $5 cable box and instead of us paying the $10 a month to rent it, we are now probably going to have to pay a few hundred dollars to replace it. I'm such a loser!

We had a great Halloween. As soon as I get the pictures downloaded, I will post them!