My brother and his fiance’ are coming in from out of town today. I am looking forward to seeing them again, it’s been about 6 months since we visited last. They are looking to move here at the end of June so we’ll get to see each other all the time. I suppose that’s good and bad. Mostly good though. I think. 
They are staying through Sunday so we only have a few days to run around and do things. I know for sure we are going to a chocolate store in town. Friday evening is fondue night. We didn’t have to think twice about that one! Just say chocolate and I’m there! Actually, nevermind. I keep forgetting that my daughter is in a play and the big show is Friday night. (Stellar parenting there!) Not sure why I keep forgetting about it. I guess the idea of watching a couple hundred elementary kids on stage is just so thrilling my brain is unable to deal. Oh well, so much for chocolate fondue. I’m still taking her to the store, we must get our chocolate fix. You can’t stop me.
I am doing a quick once-over in the kitchen and living room. I will present a fake clean house. ‘Fake’ because it never looks that good after company leaves and only looks that good when I am expecting company. I hate housework, I only do it when forced to. Right now the living room is being over-taken by laundry. Right now, you have to push a pile of childrens’ undies over to find a seat on the couch. We’ve let laundry slide for just a few weeks too long and now we are playing catch-up. Except- I also hate doing laundry, so it gets washed and dried but more often then not, it stays in the baskets. Unless we pay the kids to fold it. Two birds, one stone. The laundry gets folded, I don’t have to do it and they make money. So I guess that’s three birds, one stone? Win, win, win? Whatever works, I say!
Right now I’m stalking an auction on eBay. It’s for 23 pieces of fabric remnants, from a high-end interior design company retiree. She has awesome stuff and it’s soooo cheap. And she offers so much fabric per auction! Like, 10 yards or 8 yards or 12 yards of expensive fabric for next to nothing. The remnant auctions don’t have huge amounts of yardage but she’ll have like 4 yards of this, 2 yards of that, 1 yard of that over there- times 23! Some stuff isn’t even a yard but for me, I’ll take it. I have patterns for my daughters where the outfit needs a contrast fabric and I don’t need a ton of it. So I like to have a lot of littler pieces on hand for those kinds of projects. I feel like I’m letting a big secret out, talking about this. I don’t like too much competition on eBay auctions. I want to WIN, WIN, WIN!! (I hate to lose.) 21 minutes, 20 seconds……and counting. I must win this.
Okay, must bathe child and myself. And win an auction.
