We had company over on Saturday night for dinner in memory of Devin. We’ve always done it on Devin’s birthday (March 6th), but this year Den was going to be out of town on his birthday so we did it a little early. It was another fantastic dinner party evening. I always come away from his party feeling upbeat and thankful for family. Also we are apparently getting better at cooking, as everyone gobbled up large amounts of all the dishes. There is just something about feeding other people that really feeds my soul.

I’m not really doing anything for Devin’s birthday this year, other than that. I haven’t really thought of anything to buy for him. Although, no – I really want to get my mother’s ring. It’s not your typical mother’s ring with three equal birthstones… it’s a ring with an aquamarine heartshaped stone that I picked out a long time ago. I still love it, so I think it’s past time to have someone make it for me. (I could buy it online, but I really feel like the stone would be too big for my very petite little fingers. I want something a little smaller, so I hope a local jeweler can make one for me.) As a bonus the ring has two very small diamonds, one on each side of the aquamarine. I think that’s why I’ve been waiting all these years… I wasn’t sure if I should get the diamonds or not. Well now those diamonds can represent my two little girls, Devin’s living siblings. (And I know diamond is April’s birthstone, not May’s. May is emerald. I don’t really want green on my ring.) So maybe I’ll go take care of that this week.

On a very happy note, because of us having company over our house looks all nice and clean! I mean, it’s not like we cleaned the windows and dusted the tops of door frames or anything, but it looks much much better than it did. I have been itching to organize everything lately. It’s quite distracting actually because I find I can’t open a cupboard without pulling everything out and going through it all. A lot of things are getting thrown out around here… like random weird old broken things stuffed in the back of cupboards. A few days ago I went through my filing cabinet to pull out all the old bills and receipts to move to a box in the basement for long-term storage and ended up culling a lot of junk paperwork I didn’t need to keep. We put together my new dresser and cleaned out a large part of the bedroom, though we still have a ways to go until I can call it clean… but it requires moving a bunch of bins and bags to the basement and I’ll just leave that for the husband to do. It’s not so much the cleaning that is getting to me – I’m not down scrubbing the baseboards or anything (yet), but it’s the de-cluttering. I will sort and re-sort and organize and label and put everything back into its perfect little spot.

So, umm, yeah… nesting much?