Cleaning time

I woke up this morning with a crick in my neck – probably because Steve and I spent all yesterday morning and I also spent the evening re-arranging bedrooms, now that Sarah and Beckie are back out of the nest.  In the room that Sarah occupied, we moved the bed around and added a tall bookcase (thanks to Beckie) to house all the children’s and Christmas books.  We purged the games from the top shelf in the closet and we moved all the toys into the quilt room closet and put all the family history tubs (both Steve’s and mine) in their place.  Here are photos.  

  

 

Notice the wood chest at the foot of the bed?  It belonged to Steve’s parents and it fit perfectly in the storage well in the back of the van we rented to attend Iola’s funeral.  It is a treasure.

While cleaning, look at the mother of all dust bunnies we found!

 

 

I moved all my sewing and craft tubs into the Noah’s Ark room closet last night and then I treated myself to a couple hours at the sewing machine while finishing up watching “Newsies”.  Oh, how I have missed sewing.  It is just not going to happen very much this year, I am sad to say.  Happily, though, teaching is great.  All my ensembles are making good progress and I am always energized when I am done.  Isn’t that crazy?  I will say, though, that I was extra tired during my Thursday teaching at Central Methodist and I could NOT stay away for my first student.  Thankfully, I have a 30-minute break right after him and I just leaned my head against the cinderblock wall in the practice room and had the best little 15-minute power nap! 

Steve and I visited Jenna for Family Home Evening on Monday.  I brought my cello and played some Bach for her and her housemate and the nurses aids.  Jenna cannot talk but we are all fairly certain there is a coherent woman trapped inside that palsied body.  Columbia Civic Orchestra started up on Tuesday.  We are playing a lot of Beethoven this year – love it!  Had a stake Relief Society presidency meeting on Wednesday night.  And the annual CIS family picnic was Friday evening.  Oh, and Prairie Strings had a wedding Saturday evening at a place north of Columbia called Alpine Park and Gardens.  It is SO lovely there under the tall trees and amid beautiful landscaping (not too fussy, mostly native plants).  But the bride’s mother was not present – she and the bride had a falling out a few years back and so she was not included in the celebration.  How incredibly sad is that?????

Finally, I have to show you some address labels we got in the mail recently.  These are the unsolicited kind from a charitable organization – you know the kind.  Sometime in the past, I requested they read
“The Lambson Family” (rather than just Steve Lambson or Jeanne Lambson because we also have PLENTY of those, too).  Well, obviously, these labels are outsourced to some foreign country because look what they came up with?  

 

 Hilarious!

Weather has turned cooler - the AC is off (yay) - leaving the horrid heat of the summer a painful memory.  

Oh, one last thing.  Many of you have seen Sadie's "welcome home" ritual.  First, she greets you on the stairs - sitting on her rump with her little paws in the air inviting you to rub her tummy.  Then, she runs to our bedroom and jumps on the couch and burrows her head between the two cushions in pure excitement.  There, she gets more petting and greeting.  This happens EVERY TIME either Steve or I come home.....even if it is just coming in from collecting the mail!  As you can imagine, with all the comings and goings I now have between all my schools, we do this several times a day.  Wednesday had FIVE.  I should try to capture this on video because it is so cute.