A Little Nostalgic!???

I have to say that I am trying to keep this blog about our family and things we do...but I have to vent a bit on this one. We haven't made it to the beach yet as sharks have been spotted two times this week! We are thinking maybe the aquarium might be a smarter choice! Anyway so today we started to clean the garage out. Rick has been bugging me to do a little cleaning out. As many of you know...being a pack rat kinda runs through my veins! It is very hard for me to throw things away that are mine...let alone things that are the girls and decide what they don't play with that should to go to Goodwill. Everything seems to have a story behind it as to where it came from and who it came from!! I start to clean out some of the baby stuff. I made Rick move it here because I just couldn't get rid of it. I did make a big step and in December when I went to Kansas City, I gave a few things to Heather's friend Cory that was having a baby. I have been trying to clean out the things that Addison doesn't wear in her closet and put them in tubs in the garage. I try to take the things that don't fit Ashleigh and put them in Addison's closet. That's not too hard...it's moving them from Addison's closet to the garage that I seem to have a problem with!! I decided to put everything in the tubs in to spacebags to try to make more room so it didn't look like I had saved as much as I really had!! (If you don't know what spacebags are...go to www.spacebag.com and check it out They are AWESOME!!) So I had to take everything out of the tub and put it into a spacebag. I had a little problem seeing the clothes that both girls wore and remembering they were that small!! Was it that long ago that I had a baby?? Ashleigh has a little lamb that you hooked on to the crib that when you pull the cord it sings. I can remember, like it was yesterday, her yanking it off the crib rail and snuggling it. I actually cried thinking that she isn't a baby anymore and becoming quite the little girl and will be in kindergarten this time next year! I am crying again now thinking about it!! As I pulled the clothes out, I saw the first thing Rick ever picked out for Ashleigh at Babies R Us, the outfit that I just loved on Addison, the dress that we took their pictures in...I could go on forever remembering things!! I'd find things that my grandma got Addison and that made me miss her even more than I do. It seemed everything I touched today had a memory for either one of the girls and many times both of them. Of course, now I have baby fever! lol It just makes you realize how fast they do grow up. I can't believe my baby is closer to 3 than 2! But at what point do you start to give all the clothes away? When do you start to get rid of all the baby stuff? When you are sure you aren't having anymore? I can't say that we are having more kids but I can't say that we aren't either! I really don't want a middle child...my aunt's a little crazy and she is a middle child....but 4 kids just seems TOO many....I don't know! Anyway I just needed to vent a bit. I guess it's all part of growing up and the circle of life! Guess I have just been thinking alot about things lately. I did manage to clean 2 bags of garbage and 3 bags to Goodwill....no clothes all toys so it was a start!