We are back from Syracuse/Canada. It is nice to be home after 2 weeks away but we had a great time. Most of our time at the lake was spent cleaning/tossing out the many, many, many items my grandmother hoarded for 93 years. The woman should have bought stock in a plastic company. I swear she had about 1,000 baskets full of shit. I didn't get my ability to toss crap from her, that is for sure. Who would have known that a laundry room could take an entire day?? Or that she could paper the Eiffel Tower from top to bottom with copies of document from her lawyer and investment broker? It took me 2 days to sort her bills. I still can't figure out why she would have a telephone bill in the basement for one month and the next month, it would be in a file in the cabinet. Just when I thought I was done, I'd find another WHOLE box of them. OMG.

When all was said and done, every window has a new curtain rod and new curtains, there are new venetian blinds on all the sliding doors, a set of bunk beds are now in the kid's room, my room has a new comforter from IKEA on it, the garage is cleaned out, the basement is all fixed up. The place looks fabulous. Gram would be proud:)

In the middle of all of this, we invited Gram's bible study out to have their yearly picnic. It was nice to meet the women she spent time with over the past 7 years. It was very sad for them as this was the first picnic without her.