I like Stuff

I really like stuff. I don’t like the way stuff looks a lot of times, but I have so many things, I have to get past that. In a perfect world, I would have little clutter with all my stuff put up properly. But for now, I have a lot of stuff…. like the half empty box of gift enclosure cards that bear “Ruth Daniels” on them or the postcard from Momma that reads “to my favorite daughter”… things that I just can’t get rid of. I also have the blankets that were made by Grandma Jackson and the boxes upon boxes upon boxes of photographs.  Poor Emmy has so many toys in her room (and the living room) that she couldn’t decide what to paly with if she was forced to make a decision. I didn’t really buy all these toys; most were hand me downs or gifts, there were lots that were mine when I was a kid, and the ones I did buy, I got at yard sales. And then the things I bought on sale… such a good sale that I bought three of them!

 

I admit… I am a hoarder.

 

It all slapped me in the face when Emmy Ruth has recently started carrying four or five things at one time and saying she wants to take “my stuff with us”. Or she says “I need my stuff”. How many times have I said, “I might need this stuff”? Momma kept things that were special of Grandma’s and now here I am doing the same thing with Grandma and Momma’s things. Good heavens, what am I doing to this child of mine? Seeing a blanket isn’t going to tell her how special they were to me.

 

So, now I have boxes of stuff in the living room that are going in a yard sale and the leftovers promptly being taken to Goodwill. My biggest problem now is keeping Emmy Ruth from taking things out of the boxes as I put them in there!!!