Cleaning Up the Garage and Yard

After talking about it for awhile Scott picked up a U-Haul and we spent the better half of a Friday loading it up. We had random stuff left by the previous owners and house projects.

Like 99% of this was just crap left behind by the old owners.

Theo wanted oatmeal for breakfast so I told him how to do it. Good thing our old kitchen has children sized counters.

Never not going to be nervous with Theo cutting veggies and fruit.

Theo loves working on his math books.

Kitty ate my breakfast crumbs.

After taking our junk filled Uhaul to the dump we reorganized and cleaned our garage. It's so nice to have more space and no more carpet on the floor.

I was probably annoying Brooke with my endless sweeping, but in the end I could actually see the pavement instead of an inch of cement dust and debris.

Meadow had been interested in seeing how long it would take to walk to her school. We were about to go when Theo said he wanted to join.

Gonna take a good deal longer if you stop at the playgrounds. Oh, wait, this is at the middle school.

Then Theo and I ended the night by playing Smath. Think Scrabble but with math equations.

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