Congrats to Everybody!

God is Good! I'm sitting here snug as a bug in a rug. Well okay, I'm freezing, but you know what I mean. I'm all tucked in at home, having canceled my appointment with my Aunt due to the impending blizzard (well we might get some flurries) and my sick van (it had the runs all over the driveway) so I don't want to drive to Hopewell and risk getting stuck somewhere on a back road.

So here I sit, in my Gown and Robe, and Slippers that haven't warmed my icy toes YET. I've already put Cabbage Rolls in the Crock Pot and my first of two batches of Homemade Bread in the Bread Machine.

Here's the bad news. In about 3 hours, my house will be smelling sooo good, and my stomach will be growling sooo loud, and it won't even be lunch time yet, and I'll be dying by the time I get to eat this yummy dinner!! These kinds of obsessions are what keep my butt so big.

I want to say Congratulations to two of my cousins who got married recently.

Jeff & Kelly, what a cute couple!!

Jeff's Kids, Tyler and Hannah

And PJ and Sophie
Awe, Best Wishes you Guys!!

PJ is just 4 days older than Sarah. Here's a pic of them when they were babies
See Sophie, he's always been a cute poot!!

While I'm at it, Congrats to our new babies too!!!

~~Welcome baby Alexandra~~
I can't believe my BABY brother has three babies of his own
The Perfect Family
Bridget and Robert Lee
Mahala, Keri & Alex
(Hey Rob, what's those weird things sticken out of your ears?)

~~Welcome Baby Abigail~~

My cousin Donnie, Colleen, and Abby

Worth every minute of that wicked labor!!

Children are a heritage of the Lord,
the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Psalm 127:3

eBay News:

I've checked my e-mails and and learned one very valuable lesson for today. NEVER ship anything without Delivery Confirmation!! My Paypal shipping link was not working, and I don't for the life of me understand why you can't print first class shipping on the USPS site, but anyway, here I was, forced to go to the Post Office to ship for several days. The first two days, I paid for the shipping confirmation, even though they charge 75 cents at the PO, and only 18 cents if you print it online. The third day I wisely thought: Hmm, I've never lost a package yet, it's been 11 months, I'm not paying that rip-off price for confirmation. WRONG WRONG WRONG move.
Of course, someone e-mails me that they have not received their package, and could i please send the tracking #. Now, I'm not accusing anyone of anything, but why would they ask for the tracking number first thing? Why wouldn't they ask if their package has been shipped? I know there are people who take advantage of situations like that, I'm just hoping that's not the case here because I like to think that my customers are as honest as I am. I'm glad it was something small, has to be for first class mail and I'm not out much money, as I now have to refund the customer, urgh!!!!! Anyway, they'll get their 8 bucks back, and everyone will be happy, and I'll never ship without confirmation again. See, now I can say I learned something new today, and we should all strive to learn something new EVERY day, right?

Check out this entry on the eBay message board:
Wow! I can hardly believe my good fortune. Since i have almost no sales on eBay now is the time for me to add product without the inconvenience of always shipping items.

I want to list 140 more items to reach a total of 500.
Since i only use store listings and 30 day fixed with auto relist, then I can just set back and wait for sales.

Since I have few sales now, think of all the time I will be saving. The only problem is that they may forget who I am at the post office.

That sounded like me before Christmas. Sales were dead! I worried about how I could keep up and get ready for Christmas and guess what? I did all that worrying for nothing. See, I try to tell Robert that it doesn't pay to get your panties all in a bunch. What will be will be!! I'm convinced that you have to keep auctions going at all times, that's what brings business into your store. So, what's the agenda for today? LIST LIST LIST to auction. I'll transfer about 10 items in every size I can find to auction and see if I can generate some more business like I did last week. It really works people, I'm tellen ya!!! Business has picked up, not where it was, but I'm moving forward, getten there!

Last night I went through EVERY picture album up in Sarah's closet (about 15), and pulled out a bunch of pictures of her using her equipment over the years. Then Robert sat and looked at them and had a little moment. She was such a character when she was little. Coulda easily been an actress!! BUT, she told me yesterday after reading my blog, "You know, my middle name is NOT Spina Bifida, so don't just talk about that when you talk about me!" So, just to make her happy, I will tell you that she is just like any other young lady. Any other MOODY, GROUCHY, PMSing, MAN OBSESSING young lady. How's that Sarah, did I do good? Uh Oh, now's not the time to be messen with her head. She's in that I HATE EVERYBODY, LEAVE ME ALONE state, and she's really gonna make me pay when she reads this.

Anyhoo, I will scan and add more pics soon, I promise. I just HAVE to work on eBay first. It brings in the money (occasionally).

But first I think I'll go throw on an extra pair of socks....