Woohoo, it’s day two of my new plan, and look what I got done!
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What you don’t know (yet) about the second picture is that the empty space there beside the cabinet used to hold three plastic bins and a pile of clutter on top of those! I also did the drawers on that desk, not just the top!
Yesterday, I scoured one side of the kitchen. Bottom cabinets emptied, cleaned and refilled. Counters cleaned, etc. Today, I continued in the kitchen, cleaning under the microwave, and doing the bottom cabinets on the other side. It’s not a lot of fun, but I do enjoy looking at the clean and organized results 🙂
I’ve also moved the two freezers, and will be going after the washer, dryer, frig and stove as well.
The heater broke last night, so we had to have the furnace guy out today. He replaced the broken breaker, and now we shall have heat. Yay heat! Heat is very good!
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My extended family will be here on Saturday for our Christmas celebration. I am so not ready! My house is a wreck. I know I always say that, but it really is true, and I am just unmotivated to deal with it. But deal with it I must. And I need to do it sooner rather than later. Okay, my house is not a wreck. It’s just messy. If we all work together, we can whip it in to shape in an hour or so.
I did start the purging that is on my goal list tonight. I started at the front door. You know, the one we never use, because all my family and friends come in through the kitchen?? That one. Is it ok to throw stuff out that I could sell on ebay just to get it out of my face?
baby baths-check
rest of the laundry washed and dried-check
scouts-check
checkbook-check
Everything else-no check. The couch is piled high, but it will be there tomorrow. I am beat, and it’s almost time to rock the baby to sleep I may or may not get the cds ordered tonight. Depends on if I can outlast the kids.
I did ok. The laundry that’s left now fits in the laundry area, and I’ll try to get a couple more loads run through tonight. The independent schoolers did school, and we maintained the work we’d done in the kitchen last night.
Oh! I didn’t tell you about that. Yes, since the new coffee pot fits on the microwave, we cleared off the entire counter where the old one had sat. Then we also did some cabinet re-arranging to get the mugs over the new coffee pot spot. Somehow we ended up with more room in the cabinets. I’m not quite sure how that happened, but I’ll live with it 🙂
Woo hoo for me! I’ve got the stacks and stacks of clothes that were piled on my dresser put away! Then I had DD#1 bring all the baskets of clean clothes and put them on my bed, so that’s the next thing I’ll deal with, after I pump. I even vac’d my room!
I don’t know how it goes at your house, but here I have discovered that if we have a messy, out-of-control environment, we also have messy, out-of-control people.The inverse is also usually true. SO, that’s what I am working on today: getting our house back into a condition conducive to peace and learning. Yes, the children are helping, just as they helped make the mess.
It’s a pun, ok? It’s late, and I’m a little tired, but the bins are done. I do need to get enough summer clothes put away so that we can get what we are wearing into the drawers, but at least the winter stuff has been given out. And not a day too soon, as it’s getting down into the 20s tonight! I was able to get it done because there was no girl scout meeting today after all. I’m showing you a picture, even though it’s embarrassing. Doesn’t it look like the laundry monster vomited all over the couch and floor in here? Ah well, it’ll get done, and I don’t like the babies to wear clothes that have been stored until I wash them.
