My problem...

So I have an issue and I am having a hard time coming up with the answer.  Since my first baby entered school I have kept every piece of paper they have brought home.  I have weekly classroom updates from Mrs. Coyote's kindergarten class, I have every lunch menu sent home for the last 5 years...well technically I have 2 for every month for the last 3 years.  Every homework assignment, every picture painted, every name list for valentines, every scrap that came home I have kept in separate boxes, one for each kid for each separate year for fear of tossing something very important.

Did you know that after a while these boxes start to pile up!  I have many more years of all these papers coming home.  I had gone looking for some type of storage boxes when Sky was in 1st grade in hopes of more secure storage but now I am starting to think I need to let some of this paper go.  I could keep some of the art projects, although the schools we have attended have not been much into that kind of thing.

Of course not everything is a nice neat 81/2 by 11 sheet either, there are the odd big pictures and 3d projects...the really big stuff this last couple years I have tried to take picture of because in this small house it doesn't take long for that stuff to get ruined in the boys room and I just have not had the space to store it.

Will my boys think I am horrible if I toss out a bunch of these papers?  What should I keep and what should I toss?  I have lots of reminders sent home about various activities at school.  I can toss those correct?  Or should I scrap that stuff?  Or should I scan every sheet and save them on a hard drive?

Military action...

So the boys wanted to go as characters from their favorite tv show, Stargate SG-1.  I couldn't find any actual costumes for the show so they went with these and I am going to change out the patches and try to make some that look like SG-1 patches,

Originally Bray wanted to be Dr. Daniel Jackson and Sky wanted to be Col. Jack O'Neil...or was the other way around? 

I still think I have strange kids.  At least the farm is safe from a Goa'uld attach!

bubble bath here I come...

I am so excited, Shane almost has the bathroom done!

My new tub with jets!  Can't wait to get in with a glass of wine and couple candles lit and sit back and have a long hot bath!  Haven't been able to take a bath since we left Spokane.

I really like the new sink and vanity.  The walls are a light mint green color and I LOVE it!

It is exciting when a room is done but I am so tired of having my house tore up!  Next thing that is going to be done is the front porch I think, I hope!  When the rain hits we don't have any covered area out there and it becomes such a muddy mess!

happy yellow...

Ok, so I am starting to put my kitchen back together but things are going real slow. 

At first I was afraid of yellow, and the first yellow we chose was too bright according to Shane so he got a new color that is closer to butter.

I just want to have every cupboard organized.  Everything in its place kind of house.  no clutter.  I am starting to think that is never going to happen to me.  I just moved my desk into the kitchen and had to move 3 boxes of misc. crap that has no home in the kitchen yet.  Do I need those things?  no...but some of them were given to me and I have this obsession to hold onto everything anyone has given me.  I don't want to hurt their feelings if they ever find out I got rid of it.  This means if anyone wants to see the Christmas card they sent me in say 1996...I have it. 

Ok, I am going to commit right now to donating a box of kitchen items that I have either A. not used since I moved here 2 years ago or B. don't like...even if it was a gift.  I better be sure I have a nice bottle of wine chilled to get though this though!