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A euphemism for home inspection.  But it went well.  She seemed favorably impressed with the facilities, the zoo, the boys, and the Keeper (me).

I've been cleaning, emptying that room where you put things that you don't know what to do with, so it can be Shelby's bedroom.  The most difficult has been the closet, which I'm not through with.  I have thrown out and or given away at least a room's worth of stuff.  Because some of the stuff (furniture) that moved out of there had to be put somewhere else, which meant we had to move something to make room,  and on and on.  Mark said he felt like we were in one of those tile-moving puzzles.

I finally got a "scrapbook" put together as a slide show and printed it out on card stock and bound it, for her to take to Shelby, so he will get a (falsely clean and organized) idea of us.  It turned out pretty well.  I may try to figure out how to add the slide show to the Ostrander website.

So our first in home visit with Shelby will be next Friday, Sept.26th.  We will meet at the bowling alley and bowl with the Asperger's Young adult social group.  Then Cheeburger, Cheeburger for food, then we take Thomas back to class for an hour, and I have no idea what Shelby and I will do, then home.  If he's still comfortable, he'll stay overnight.  I'm both excited and terrified.  Mark, of course, won't be here, because he'll be rappelling off some cliff in N.Carolina as a warm up for Bridge Day.

So now, after an exciting day [ TB test, taking Mark to work so I can have the car t get to the AS support Luncheon, then back to pick up Mark, to come home for the home visit] I've moved on to the wine and relax portion of the evening.  Whoo.
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Who was it that gave me the wonderful "box of kitchen gadgets" idea? Mara G maybe? 

I put all the things from two drawers and two flower pots (tey make lovely holders for wooden spoons and such) in a box.  And told the guys that they could keep anything they used in the next month.  And that if it wasn't worth digging in the box for, they didn't really need it. 

A couple of things came out immediately e.g., spatulas and spatulas.  Both the egg turning kind and the cake mix scraping kind.  Why do those have the same name? anyone know?  And I took out a couple of things that I don't use that often, but do use, and for which there is no substitute.  Like my boiled egg slicer.  Shoot me, I like my boiled eggs sliced in dainty little circles and lightly salted and peppered.  And one of the potato/carrot peelers.  But just one of them. And a couple of large serving utensils that we only use at big holidays, but do use them then. However, said large utensils went down to the storage closet to live with their matching bowls, trays, and fancy napkins.

And I'm going to rescue one of the the three sets of measuring spoons. Probably the one that actually has all the spoons still. No one's used one in a month, but that's the kind of thing that when you do need one, there is no subtitute.

So it's been a month, and there's still LOTS of stuff in the box.  It turns out that I had 17 spatulas (batter scraping kind) and I'm now down to four, in different sizes/shapes.

I had 4 whisks.  Haven't used one this month, but I think I'll keep one.  I do use one every once in a while.

I have things left in the box that I can't quite identify.  It's kind of scary, but nice to actually be able to find what I'm looking for in a drawer now.
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I've been ill and off line a couple of days.  I've set aside this week for getting my house ready for the new year.  Thomas doesn't start school until next week.  So this week I'm de-cluttering, cleaning, and uh, taking down Christmas decorations. I hired a friend's daughter (Bethany) to help with the cleaning part.  Lord knows we need help around here. 

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