Thank You Secret Pal!!

Hi Secret Pal!! First of all, I hope you and your mother and husband are all feeling better!! Ironically, my mother went into the hospital last week from which started out as a cold and fever and turned into (or already was) some kind of infection. After a week in the hospital they still don't know where the infection was but it has gone away and she's on anit-biotics. She's 79 and also lives alone like your mother and after she was discharged yesterday we too brought her to our house until she's feeling better. I'm glad your little one hasn't gotten it!

Second, THANK YOU! It was a wonderful surprise today (especially after the past week I've had) to see the Fedex man drop off a huge box at the door!! I even got to open your package with Raven's Grandma! (Hubby was at work and I just couldn't wait that long!!). I LOVE everything!!! Where to start?!?!? I guess with January & February...

THANK YOU SO MUCH for the Home Depot gift card!! You have no idea how much I will enjoy that! And it's funny because I had just decided a few days ago that I was definitely going to work on the closet next! That was right after I threw more stuff in there that needed a temporary home.. lol I pretty much already have a good idea of what I want to do in order to maximize the storage space while hiding a bunch of the storage boxes I have in there and also organize my clothes at the same time. Here's a pic of how it looks now... the "before"... The gift card will definitely help with this!!! I'll be sure to post "after" pics when I'm done. Should keep me busy for a while too, which is good because this wait seems to go slower the more I think about it, so I need to keep busy as I have been pretty good at doing that so far and hopefully it'll continue to fly by.

I can only walk into the closet about 3 feet before hitting my head on the slope, but that is all I need and I want to set up that space so I can walk across the closet in that walking space/aisle and still have shelving on both sides. Or, I can just keep piling things in here! LOL I should have plenty of organized storage space when I am done, and at this rate, I will need the additional space for all of Raven's things I am accumulating!!

Thank you so much for thinking about my birthday! I love the beautiful candle holder and how cool is it that you got it when you were in China!!! That is going right on my desk at home (I work from home) where I can see it all day long and know that it was once in the country of my daughter! Wow!

On to March... LOVE MARCH! The journal is so cute and I am trying to write more instead of just adding what I can to the blog, so that is perfect! And the blanket is BEAUTIFUL!!!! SO SOFT!!! I love it!!! I'm not going to pack that away so I can just go and feel it from time to time! LOL

And now to April! LOL Love the fleece blanket and the little outfit is ADORABLE!!! Too cute!!! And both have little ladybugs! Very cute!! Love the green!!

I love all of it! Thank you so much! And don't worry about it being a little "delayed".. I was meant to get it today! I needed it today!! Perfect timing! Thank you!