Four Day Weekend!
Do you get to be off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day?
How about Lee-Jackson Day?
I’m still enjoying a Friday to Monday, 4 day weekend. Yeah!
And the kiddos only get Monday, so Friday I was home on my own. Yeah! I think.
At first I didn’t know what to do with myself, but then I started cleaning. (I’ll have pictures later this week, but right now I’m having computer/picture/blog communication issues. Yeah, lots of fun.)
And I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. I sorted and purged. I took a truckload of clothes and toys and stuff I didn’t even realize we owned to the DAV thrift store. (That’s Disabled American Veterans, btw.) We bagged up dress-up clothes that no one can squeeze into, a stack of family fun from the game cabinet (to make room for new Christmas games!), a Hot Wheels track set, 2 play barns, and that crazy Zhu-Zhu tunnel-wheel thing that I’ve always hated.
I sorted a few boxes of magazines down to a few pages of recipes and crafts and we let go of a few books that we’ve outgrown.
I talked to the kids and we decided to share our play kitchen and our pink plastic preschool table to make room for a big-kids table (which is coming from our attic) and the Ladybug gave up her 3 Barbie dolls, 8 of her stuff animals, and 2 baby dolls (like 1/20th of her collection!) to make room for a “new” desk (which is coming from our garage).
Today we’ll be here dusting and vacuuming and moving our new furniture in place. We’ll be talking about hanging a blackboard and making a reading circle, re-stacking the bunk beds and repurposing a cabinet for the upstairs bathroom. We’ll be whispering about new paint and pictures for the walls and a curtain by our new reading nook.
It’s so nice to be out from under all this stuff we didn’t even realize we had!
How’s your weekend been?
We have been purging for what seems like months! We are going through the house painting (we have been here 10 years) and cleaning out as we go. Bags and bags and boxes of stuff donated to the local Christian resale shop (all proceeds go the the soup kitchen). I will be so glad when we have completed this task. Hopefully by summer when we have to be out gardening, haying, and grass cutting. I really missed your pictures today! They always make me smile! 🙂
How lovely! One of my favorite things to do is purge and clean 🙂 {crazy, I know!!} Can’t wait to see pictures!
I’m an only child and am still holding on to stuff from my childhood, so can you imagine how difficult it is for me to purge my son’s stuff??? Mentally I know it has to be done or it will overtake our house, but emotionally for some reason, I just get connected to the stuff (how much it cost, who gave it to him, etc.) I’m just overly sentimental when it comes to that stuff. If someone else would come purge for me, I think it would make things happen quicker and with less drama.
I was most amazed by the fact that I got rid of TWO truckloads of stuff now and our house is definitely cleaner, but I don’t really notice a huge difference. I don’t feel like the house is empty or we’re missing stuff or anything. The more I organized and rearrange, the more I keep wondering what all that stuff was and where in the world I had put it before??