Digging out my mothers basement

My mother is a hoarder in some since in the word.  She is a shopaholic and always has been.  Her house is not cluttered to this extent.  Just her basement, garages, barn, sheds and etc.  If there is an empty space she fills it.  She has already done great in getting rid of things but more needs to be done.  This month I have decided I am cleaning out the basement.  This was done two years ago much of the stuff is new.  Now I can say that alot of if just needs to be organized.  My parents have rentals and stuff todo with the rentals gets stored in the basement.  Things she doesn't use everyday gets stored in the basement. I did start working on some of this yesterday and am just about done in one corner.  Now reasons like this I call her a hoarder is I found a baby sneaker from one of my brothers on a shelf my youngest brother will turn 32 in March but it could have also been from my brother that will turn 34 in April.  These are before pictures.  I am going to try and take pictures as I get one area cleaned out

Laundry room there is a counter under there somewhere

 laundry room

 another view of laundry room there is a sink under this

 Corner that I am currently working on.  There is a woodstove that is no longer used in here

 some of this is already gone behind the ugly curtains are shelves that have stuff on them for 30 years now

other side of corner I am currently working on

 pool table used to be here now just storage and the bar can't wait to see what is behind there

 yea bar is under there somewhere

 I can see some light come thru the window back there

 This part isnt really all that bad since it is used much more by my dad

Reasons Kenny makes me proud

Kenny my 15 yr old baby boy makes me proud to say he is mine on a daily basis.  He has always been my happy child with a twinkle in his eyes.  There is not a person that has not met him that doesn't love the person he is unless your his Jr High German Teacher but that was OK because he couldn't stand her either.  He never seems to amaze me, with keeping his 97 grade point average, stays active in sports year round.  He always makes sure he saves time for family and friends alike.  Just a few of the reasons he makes me so proud to be mine. 

 Although he is terrified of heights he would go on any ride his 5yr old cousin wanted to and could with her at Seabreeze this summer

 He has a few wacky friends

 Well actually quite a few this is only a few of them on Halloween the other half arrived a little later

 But knows he has a best friend for life when he needs her.  She also knows she has a best friend for life when she needs him too.  

Being told he was too underweight to safely play football, didn't discourage him he found a new passion and that is Cross Country and Track.  Which he has done great at.  This season for Cross Country as a freshman he finished 4th top runner in his school, and made sectionals and beat an all time freshman record

He knows what it means to be part of a team.  The 10 boys that went to sectionals decided that they all must have the same hair cut.  Kenny loves his hair and was starting to get to the point where he liked it.  But he said I have to get it done.  Now his head is cold all the time

Last night he came home from turning in his uniform and pizza party and handed me this.  Mom I am a freshman and I got my Varsity letter.  He raced one race on JV and bumped a Jr from the Varsity team.  This made me as happy as it will next year when he gets into the honor socity

I love my boy for many, many reasons

Second mesh wreath

I like the way this one turned out better I think because I played with it a little bit more, actually thinking I might redo the decorative stuff of the first one.

First Mesh Wreath

I love the Mesh Wreath's but not the price of them.  We were at Joanne's one night, Kayla noticed that the mesh for fall was 70% off.  Mom can we try it out.  Sure why not.  We have learned somethings in the process of making this.  We are making one more in the same color and going to try and do that one a little different.  Will see if it works out better.

What has been going on this week

Been working on a few things this week like making 6 of these scarf's for my daughters, niece and my brothers girlfriends girls.  I like them and wish I had made my self one but oh well. 

 Sunday was Cheer fest and Cheer Competition I don't have a cheer leader this year so went to cheer fest to watch my little miss (youngest niece) cheer and she did great although she was nervous the night before

 Blanket that will be raffled off at highschool fundraiser for Lady Raiders softball and basket ball chicken bbq

 Other blanket that will be raffled off

I did get another scarf done but have not taken pictures yet.  Next will be working on mesh wreaths with my 14 year old that is going to be fun

Just another thing that I have ignored the past two years is my blog.  Which is another thing that I would really like to keep up with again.  Here are just some of the things that have gone on in the past few months with the kids.

My first True love graduated from High School 

 My Randa with two of her best friends I love these kids

 My 4 loves the two boys and little sister are so proud of their big Sis

 My Kenny graduated out of 8th grade and is now making a name for himself at the big bad highschool and its a good name too.

 My Randa at her new home in Hamburg NY where she is studying to become a profiler so so very proud of this girl 

 Kenny on his first day of highschool and Kayla's last first day of Jr. high school

 David on his first day of his Jr. year

 My Kenny can no longer play football because of being underweight but has found what he loves to do and thats cross country and track he has made a name for himself so far in cross country at school for he is in the top 7 runners for his school