up and running......

ok, so the refrigerator is again up and chilling.....now that it has been cleansed of every old and dicey jar and bottle........as has the downstairs chest freezer...for good measure.......i am afraid to see if the last saved bottle of frozen breastmilk is still there....i couldn't bear to throw it away...and though it is well past its use-by date.....there is still some sentimental value.......but i digress from the point of this blog.....through a series of natural disasters we have just about cleared our home of almost everything superfluous.....starting with the fire.....and then the flooded storage room, and now the refrigerators/freezers........add that to our one feeble attempt at a yardsale last summer when we cleared out the cabin and the attic of the garage...and ended up carting 2 van-loads to the goodwill.......there are few places in our home that are un-considered when it comes to stay or go........and yet it still feels like we have too much stuff........maybe it is the plethora of books...which are not negotiable unless it is my idea to pitch them.....i did send several boxes of cookbooks to the goodwill last summer......and yet there are still dozens that i never peruse......what remains eternal is the notion that i might just use each and every one of those left-behind books for something important.......and novels........i did dispose of the grishams.....but there are so, so many more that i cannot part with....like simenon in english rather than french......i might want to reread those as soon as i plow through my meagre translation.....oy.......piles and piles of books....in every room, bathroom, closet.......my eldest emailed asking for books in honor of his 22nd birthday next week (the day after our 25th).....and i said yes, of course.......one can never have enough books...............