Hello? Helllllllllllo? Are you there?

I'm still here.

I feel like it's been forever since I blogged.

In reality, it's only been a week!

We've been sooooooo busy around here....with the arrival of Spring comes many, many projects--and with a newborn (and three very busy boys) said projects get done about half quarter speed.

Or less.

In the last seven days,
I have:

cleared the Winter clothes out (times SIX)--put some in the rummage pile and some in storage,
then
got the Spring clothes back out of the storage tubs and into our closets/drawers.
Whew.....
What. A. Job.
Every mother knows what I'm talking about.
A twice-yearly most dreaded project, no? Just me? *sigh*

We have:

done a ton of landscaping, including adding a huge new flower bed and lots and lots of new shrubs/trees/flowers. It was done with a "no-maintenance" idea behind it, since--well, you know--I have so much time on my hands these days for things like watering/weeding a flower bed. Shane's really into the whole "do things right the first time" thing, which takes for dang ever. I, of course, know that it is better in the long run....but this project alone took up three entire days!

We have:
started on our garden. Yay!

Shane has:
worked--a lot--and managed to accomplish 90% of my "Honey-Do" list.
I love this man.

I have:
gotten lots and lots of junk things we no longer need cleared out of the house for our upcoming rummage sale, silently praying over it as I go that it will return to me a decent portion of what I originally paid for it.
*grin*

We have:
Thoroughly cleaned our garage, and worked on some organization in there. That's a never ending project, actually....

I have:
Gone a little cuckoo over a crazy new hobby of mine called couponing. I've been watching my friend Shelly go bonkers over 'getting great deals' for a few weeks now, and I decided to attempt my hand at it.
I sat back.
I read 'deal blogs'.
I tried to figure it all out.
And then, this week, I dug in and went for my very first deal. I came out of CVS with almost $48 of merchandise for a measly nine bucks. I spent nine bucks....and felt like a million! I've since gotten unbelievable deals at nearly robbed Walgreens blind--twice--and CVS once more as well!
You can probably expect to hear me talk about this a bit more in the coming weeks--it's pretty exciting.

I could go on about all the stuff we've been doing.

I won't.

Suffice it to say, the Merritt's are busy.

But that's to be expected--we're all busy at this time of year, right?

Hold the line--we'll be back to our regularly scheduled posts soon....