All week I had been waiting for Sunday night and the LOST series finale. It’s been bittersweet watching this last season knowing that the end is coming. I will not go into a lot of detail about the finale or the last season so as not to spoil it for anyone – including my husband who has only seen a few episodes from season six.

From reading tweets and Facebook updates, it seems there are quite a few who still are as confused as ever about LOST and weren’t happy with how it ended. Maybe they should have chosen one of the ‘alternate’ endings.

But as a series finale, it did answer some questions and left a few hanging. I figured they couldn’t answer everything because it seemed no one knew all of the answers. After watching the finale, it took a few hours to digest just what had happened. My first impression was I didn’t like the ending but after thinking on it, I like it better. I think you can take away from the finale that ‘it’s all good’ for our castaways.

This summer I hope to watch all of the seasons again. I do think that about around season three that the writers might started to stretch out the series since I remember when it premiered that it was supposed to be a three year TV show. So that’s my big summer plans – watch a TV show that I’ve seen every episode but want to watch again for clues.

I told my four-year-old that my hobby was rearranging furniture. I’m always trying to get the most out of our small living space. I think the statement confused her but soon she’ll learn. I usually go through this desire to completely rearrange our furniture every six months. This week I’m working on the living room and the kid’s bedroom.

We moved Rae from her toddler bed to a twin bed about a year ago. During the winter, we set up her toddler bed in our bedroom because we have no central heat and only one portable heater. Well, she didn’t want to give up her toddler bed when she started sleeping in her room again – so for a while she had a twin and a toddler bed in her very cramped room. We really want to keep the twin bed so on the rare occasion that we have company they have a place to sleep. About a year ago, I tossed our couch out. It was uncomfortable and falling apart. I did keep the cushions and some of the stuffing that I used in several crochet toys I made. Rae has never quite gotten over that I got rid of the couch. She misses it for some reason, so I decided to move the twin bed into the living room making it a make-shift daybed. This way we have a ‘couch’ and she has more space in her bedroom. This way when she does finally outgrow her toddler bed and is using the twin bed again, we already have a space reserved in the living room for a couch.

Summer is almost here. Rae has only a few weeks left of preschool and then she will be home 24/7. I know she will be bored and wanting to do some fun stuff. Her favorite thing about preschool is crafts. They make a craft almost every day. So I’ve been gathering some supplies when I find them on sale. One item that she has enjoyed in the past is foamies – you know the pre-cut pieces of foam that are in various shapes. You can get kits to make castles, ships, etc. Around the holidays you can usually find kids to make themed foamies. I picked up one pack around Halloween that you could make foamies like Frankenstein, witch, ghost, devil, etc. With a little cutting of some of the shapes, we were even able to make up our own like this one -

Foamies are cheap entertainment especially when they are on sale. She has fun putting them together and then playing with them. Hopefully I can find some new ones soon before Summer officially gets here.

One of our favorite wedding gifts we received 15 years ago was a picnic basket. We used it on almost every trip. The top finally started to unravel and even though I still use the bottom of the basket, I’ve been looking for a replacement. I found a lovely basket at a second hand store for $5.99. It needed a slight repair as one of the handles was missing its wooden holder. But being resourceful, I was able to come up with a solution.

After trying a few different ideas, I thought of using a bottle cap. I had picked up a few bottle caps a while back for crafting purposes. This one looked the best and was also red – matching the basket lining. I cut down a chopstick to hold the handle in place. Then I sanded the inside of the bottle cap slightly for a better super glue hold. Within a few minutes, the glue had set. So far no problems. We’ve made one trip just fine. And if anything should happen, I have plenty of super glue and can always find bottle caps lying around.

I love finding a good bargain and being able to fix problems for free.

We really needed another can crusher since ours has been MIA for nearly two years. We are drinking more can drinks lately. Since we are taking them to the recycling center for cash instead of just dropping them off for pickup, we really needed a crusher so they take up less room.

The neat thing about this one is that it holds up to five cans and the crushed cans drop out of the bottom. My husband re-purposed our old car tag to make a chute for the cans so that they land in the garbage can.

The multi-can crusher gets lots of attention – which is another bonus. It seems everyone wants to crush at least one can with it. That’s fine with me since it’s less work for us.