Flanagan Clan

This morning I went out early to do some grocery shopping and mail off something I sold on eBay. On my way to the post office I saw something really interesting. There’s this house off of 136th, about a half mile from our house, that has been abandoned for some time. A few months ago we started noticing that they were beginning to tear the house down by taking out the windows and things like that. We were really starting to wonder what was taking so long… maybe asbestos? Anyways, today as I was driving down 136th I saw a road sign that said “Practice Fire in Progress”. As I drove by the house there were two firetrucks and a ton of firefighters outside the house, but no fire. After I had finished all my errands, I drove past the house again, and was quite excited to see the entire house engulfed in flames and burning to the ground. If I had my camera, I would have taken a picture. Sorry! I didn’t realize that firefighters used real houses in real residental areas… I’ve seen their practice towers that they light on fire from time to time. It was a neat thing to see… I wish I could have watched more of it!

Later, this afternoon, I put away all of Sammy’s 3-6 month clothing and all of Patrick’s 24 month clothing. Since Sammy is so short, he managed to fit into most of his 3-6M clothing for far longer than Patrick did when he was that age. To be honest, I’m actually really thankful that he is short right now, because the vast majority of Patrick’s old 6-9M clothing are more for late Spring-Summertime. Now that the weather is warming down, Sammy will hopefully have no problem wearing them through the Spring and well into Summer!

You probably won’t think this too interesting, but the other really exciting thing that happened to me today was that I found a pair of Sammy’s pants that I thought I had lost for good. Sammy has a really cute little outfit that I bought him, and for the past few weeks I have been searching high and low for the pants that went to the outfit. I had almost given them up for lost until I found them while organizing baby clothes. A few weeks back I had put away some of his 3-6M clothing that he had outgrown, and I must have accidentally slipped the pants in with them. I was soooo happy to see them again. Since I don’t have any little girls to dress in frilly little dresses, I love to dress the boys up instead. Sammy doesn’t care, and Patrick doesn’t like it very much, but it makes Mommy happy (at least for now…)!

Tomorrow night Rachel and her boyfriend, Josh Fey, are coming to visit. They’ll be staying with Andrew and I for a week, and we’re very excited to see Rach and to meet Josh. Now I just need to hurry and finish cleaning the house!