Yesterday the boys were picking at each other a bit in the morning.  There’s been a lot of togetherness with all of the snow days, cancelled activities and two hour delays, so we decided they needed a bit of a break.  Or maybe we needed a bit of a break from the bickering.  Or maybe both.  Jeff took our oldest with him to an outdoorsmen show and my mom and I took the youngest with us to Ikea.  I haven’t been to an Ikea in years, so I was excited to browse around.  On the way there, my son, who was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, had a low and was feeling pretty bad, so we stopped at Target to take care of him and eat some lunch.  It was looking like we weren’t going to make it to Ikea, but the little guy started to perk up and

Today Jeff and I a were on a mission to get the basement cleaned and organized further.  We did a lot of work on it this summer…putting in new wire metal shelving, having the walls and floor painted, installing lots of lighting and cleaning out a lot of the junk and stuff that we’ve been hanging onto, but don’t really want or need.  All of that work made the space so much more functional.  There was still work to do, though, and that became even more obvious as we were packing up almost 80 orders for the online shop.  We were tripping over things and the tape was in one place and bubble wrap in another and boxes were everywhere. So, we bought some more wire shelving, cleared out a lot of trash and things to take to the thrift store and fine tuned the organization.  I think this space