Whew.  I am exhausted.  Mind you I don’t have much to be exhausted about.  Other than that pesky getting the house ready to sell  thing which aside from being a lot of work is a tad bit emotional.

I love this house.

I love our animal friends that come to visit our yard.

I love our deck.

I love our neighbors even if their yard always looks a bazillion times better than ours.

I love finding treasures when I clean out the closets that are filled to the max.

Kermit held my engagement ring in the top of his head!

I could very easily get lost sorting through old pictures and reliving memories of years gone by.

The Brown Siblings a few years ago. (Cough cough)
Yours truly, Mark, Chris and Paula

The cousins: Carla, Thomas Micah, Rachael, Aaron, Rebekah

I also finished up another 100 cards to take to Hospice this week so that took a bit of my time.  Of course I had a huge mess in my office and got called twice to show the house.  I like to have a bit of notice and I managed pretty well both times on a couple hours but non-crafters can’t possibly understand the disaster zone that can occur when “creative minds” are working. To date I have made 525 cards for Hospice of North Iowa–all since October.  No two have been alike as far as I know.

I also did a bit of baking to entice the brokers and the folks looking at the house.  (No serious lookers yet from the sounds of it but hey—food can’t hurt, right?)

Banana Bread

Buckeye Brownie Cookies

Next week I am hosting a little soiree with the local bloggers.  A taste testing party which of course, you, my dear readers, will get to read all about later on in the week.  It is going to be a fabulous diversion from what I have been doing and will give me something else to look forward to other than Mr. Diamond coming home in a couple of weeks.

So tell me—what have you been up to???  Don’t forget Comments for a Cause results and reveal tomorrow!!!!  Ya’ll come back now, ya hear?