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  • Mailboxes – Think About It!

    Mailboxes – Think About It!

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    This week’s topic
    MailBoxes
     
    What? Seriously, mailboxes. I want to hear your thoughts on mailboxes. Do you love them, hate them. Are you a P.O box only kind of person, or a two timer?
     
    This thought was provoked by my good friend Diane’s post “I Have a Love Affair with my Mailbox” from last week.
     
    I too have a love affair with my mailbox!  Sigh. As Diane said, it brings a lot of junk, but yet I keep hoping to open it and find more than just junk. Why? Because I love my mailbox. I love getting mail, even junk. Silly it may sound, but I feel even if I get junk mail, then somebody out in the world was thinking about me.  True right? 
    The days I really get let down when I open my mailbox, are the ones that contain nothing. Not even junk. I start thinking negative thoughts. Mostly along the lines of….eh hem….”I just wasted time coming out to check you!” Come on, Adelina, it took all of 10 seconds to walk to the mailbox, and check it.
     
    Maybe if I feed my mailbox more, I would get more out of it? What do you think? See I keep sending letters to my brother (serving a 2year LDS mission in Boston), but he hasn’t written back yet. He’s been gone 6months. I know he’s busy, and honestly I’m not complaining. I enjoy sending him letters.   
     
    Since that’s the only mail I feed my mailbox, I should probably try giving it more. Maybe it will then give back some. It definitely couldn’t hurt.
     
    It’s not just what’s inside the mailbox that I like. I like the look of mailboxes. Something about them just screams Home to me. How can you have a home without a mailbox? It just wouldn’t look right. My parents live in a neighborhood that shares a big box of mailboxes, all with keys, and then shared package slots. It’s great for safety concerns, especially if you live in a well off neighborhood. With all the crazies out there you’ve got to keep mail safe. I wouldn’t want one of those though. I prefer something more like this from bhg.com
     
    Source: bhg.com via Bonnie on Pinterest
     
    Or what about something sentimental like we see in Disney’s movie UP
     
     
    
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    Fall vs Autumn. What do you call it?
     
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  • Yard Sale Finds

    Yard Sale Finds

    I love yard sales! Last Saturday I was not planning on going out though, since my father in law and mother in law were in town, and we had a lot planned. Friday morning, Mark got home from work and told us there was a yard sale with massages just down the road a bit. Well my mother in law and I both decided we were going! Besides a wonderful massage they had a lot of great stuff as well!
    What do you do with your mail? If you’re like me, you take it inside, open it up, and set it on a counter or table somewhere. No more for me! Isn’t this mail holder darling? It holds a whole lot too! 
    And then there was this cute globe. I’ve been looking for one at every yard sale, and was really excited for this one. It is in great shape, and easily spins in every direction! We’ll be using this a lot in our home preschool.
    I’m kind of kicking myself now too. They had a beautiful dining room table and chairs for only $10. The chairs needed a lot of TLC, but the table was perfect and had an extra leaf. We passed it up, and we shouldn’t have. We both thought we would love our breakfast nook table, but the kids like to lay down and they play more than they eat during meals now. We easily could have kept the table and got rid of the chairs, but we didn’t think it fully through before passing it by. Awe well, I’m sure we’ll find another one of these days.