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Yay, October! I'm enjoying the colors on the trees in my new house. We head to Disney 4 weeks from tomorrow. Ans hopefully I'll start doing some shopping soon!

Christmas decorating will be day after Thanksgiving. Fall will be this weekend (hopefully, I'm still unpacking from moving a couple weeks ago). Halloween will be maybe the weekend before Halloween (23-24), but since we are going out of town over Halloween, I probably won't do much. Thanksgiving will be probably Nov 13-14.

Light blue might be nice and different. Otherwise, I'd vote light gray.

Y'all, I haven't even started thinking about Christmas. Which is unusual for me. I have no thoughts or ideas of what I'm getting anyone, but guess I better get with it! I have 2 big bags of bread flour and flour flour, but I moved this week, and I still haven't unpacked it. I mostly use sugar, powdered sugar and chocolate chips in my holiday baking. So I need to start grabbing all those now. I have no idea what stock is like at my stores, because I haven't been in a grocery store in over a year.

Kohls Throws.

I tried the discord a couple years ago and it was a little overwhelming for me. I'm like Peppermint.. old fashioned. But maybe I'll try again if I feel adventurous.

I never really ever set a budget. I just get what everyone wants. My kids are older now, so there's not a whole lot they want or need. I am hoping to find a PS5 for oldest son since I got a Halo Xbox for youngest. Then they won't need much else. Maybe house things for all 3. We just moved (today!) So I will definitely be looking for household things as well.

Moving day is tomorrow. Yikes. It's a 2 day move, so that will be fun. Tonight is last minute packing (dishes, tools, medicines...) Here we go!

Until you start overthinking cool ways to wrap them! A couple years ago I wrapped gift cards in plastic and stuck them in a jar of slime for my teenaged nieces and nephew.

Nice prize! Thanks for the contests, and the forums!

Oh isn't he cute.

Yay September! Moving month, and my birthday month. We have a 4 day weekend, and I plan on using every bit of it to pack. Holy cow I have a lot of stuff!! 12 days to go!

Thanks! And oh my goodness! My daughter turns 30 this year as well. I did have an ultrasound, but they said, "I'm pretty sure it's a girl..." so I mostly planned for that, but I had a boy name ready, and a neutral color nursery. But I did also have only one (pink) going home outfit so luckily they were right! At least he'll come home to a dinosaur room. Pink and purple dinosaurs, but dinos nonetheless!

Thank you! I'm excited. And we've been wondering the same thing. She had 3 or 4 ultrasounds, some were even the fancy 3D things that cost $$$. The first one was only at like 15 weeks when they called it, and I think it was probably still a little too early, and then I guess they never checked again.

Today was the day for my new granddaughter to be born. But... it's a boy! My poor daughter was in shock. And oh my goodness, all the pink... But both are doing good, and now I get to go shopping again!

Ugh. The Halo Xbox Console went on pre-order today, and I didn't know anything about it. Sadness. ETA. I found one at Walmart! Yay! I have failed getting an Xbox and PS5 this year, so this feels like a great victory.

(Hugs) I am so sorry. Hope everything gets sorted out and gets better!!

We put our house up for sale tonight. We about started crying when the sign went up. We've got a house under contract that we are very excited about, so it'll all be good when it's done. But for now I'm terrified.

Happy August! Kids return to school tomorrow. Our enrollment has sky rocketed this week, as I'm sure many other districts' have as well. I learned today that the 2 fastest growing cities in my state are in our county, with the city I live in being #2. Fun

Teachers came back this week, so things are really ramping up at work this week. Students return Wednesday. We are a one-to-one district, and I am inventory manager, so this is my busiest time of year. So, I decided this would be a great time to buy a house. May as well get all the stress over at once right? We signed a contract yesterday, so things are moving now. And I am terrified!! Next up is selling my house.

Happy Fourth of July! The summer is chugging right along. At work, we have the new teachers coming in for orientation in 2 weeks, the rest of the teachers the week after that, and then in 4 1/2 weeks students will be back in the buildings!

Thank you! I couldn't decide between the black and brown for my grandson... so I got both! One to take home, and one to keep up here.

Same! Last year I even purchased some vanilla beans. But never bought any vodka. Maybe I'll get to it soon.

Thank you!

Well I feel like I place an Amazon order everyday, so I should be fine!