July 24, 2008 @ 5:32 am | Filed under: Family
Last night was, as I mentioned, the first night of Comic Con, and Scott didn’t get home until after 10 p.m. Shakespeare Club didn’t happen yesterday because a number of the kids were out of town or had relatives visiting, but my gang and I had a busy afternoon nonetheless. Them: running through sprinklers. Me: plugging away at the decluttering project. More progress, woohoo! But I have decided that clothes storage, as in the handmedowns I’m saving for the next younguns in line, is the bane of my existence. Just so you know.
Around 7:30 in the evening I was folding a load of laundry while the younger four played a rowdy game of hide-and-seek. Curiously, most of the hiding took place in the room where I was folding laundry. Do the older girls not know that I always tip the littles off to where the big kids are hiding? Dinner was cleared away, evening chores finished, kids ready for bed, most of the dishes loaded (thanks largely to Jane), kitchen floor swept, and the ginormous pile of unfolded clothing that had been occupying the best hiding place of all, behind Wonderboy’s bedroom door, was now completely gone. Folded, sorted, put away. I was down to a few last items from the load fresh out of the dryer. Major accomplishment, especially with Rilla “hiding” under my feet.
Right about then the phone rang. Jane answered it and I heard her say: “Oh, no, Mom’s not busy at all!”
That’s right, just basking here in my life of leisure. Peel me a grape, somebody!
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I’ve always assumed this was how things went in your home.
Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 6:43 amI so hear you on the clothes storage woes…it’s even worse here in the northeast where we have seasons and with 6 people in an old 1000 square foot hone with minimal closets…well just say some days I would rather pull my hair out!!
Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 7:03 amWasn’t clothes storage outlawed by the Geneva Convention? No? Should be.
Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 7:23 amLissa,
I would love you to address housekeeping in regards to your children’s roles in the context of “unschooling.”
And, oh yes, I tire of keeping all those handmedowns organized. Occasionally a bit tempting to just give them all away and hit the resale shop as necessary.
Back to my couch and the box of bon-bons…
Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 9:50 amHear, hear, to the request for more ideas about Chores Without Tears.
Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 11:57 pmI’m having the sort of day where I’d rather be running tree saws, so this just made me laugh bitterly and a bit hysterically…..
Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 12:09 pmI am so done with routing around the attic to find the right bag to put clothes in. So long as it’s clearly labled I just (GASP!) stick ‘em in a new bag.
Mind you, I am VERY glad to have an attic. This is the first home in 5 to have any storage space whatsoever. Before it was all crammed under our bed
Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 2:02 pmLOL I would like my grapes peeled and cored, please!
Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 7:54 pmI call my very organized (one of my quirks) basement storage room the Basement Bargain Store because it’s all hand me downs. EXCEPT, that I totally forget that the clothes are down there. Then, when I go down for something I need, I find that the kid in question has outgrown it and it ends up at Goodwill. So, it doesn’t always pay to be organized.
Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 8:25 pmOf course Mom’s not busy! Why would anyone ever think Mom might be busy! Too funny!
I nominated you for a little blog award. Stop by and pick it up, if you’re into that kind of thing.
Posted on July 27th, 2008 at 3:29 pmRight there with you on the clothes storage . . . ugh. But I can’t yet bring myself to really REALLY purge. And the nesting! This week I finally cleaned out our guest room, which had been acting as an big messy closet for . . . well, for long enough that my 2yo, when she woke from her nap and walked in, exclaimed in wonder, “Bed! We can sleep in here!” Happy decluttering to you and all the nesters out there.
Posted on July 28th, 2008 at 10:09 pmOh Melissa,
I totally know what you have went through today. Clothing storage is a big issue around here. It seems I pack them all up, and am unpacking them and passing them down to the next one, before I know it. I always tend to lose some things, somehow as well. My closet is full of gigantic ziplock storage bags full of baby things, just in case… funny how it’s hard to get rid of those.
Good luck in your cleaning venture.
Amy
Posted on July 29th, 2008 at 1:01 pmApparently there is no posting allowed during ComicCon! Is it over yet? I am going to Bonny Glen withdrawal.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 9:31 amOops, all those new posts were hiding from me, forcing me to leave a nonsensical comment.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 9:32 amMy apologies!
Ah, Patty, you were caught by the browser curse. As soon as you left the comment, the new posts became visible to you.
Another way around that glitch is to register on the site (see link below “Leave a Reply”). Then you’ll ALWAYS see the most recent posts.
(And sorry about the glitch! It only seems to hit a few people.)
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 9:47 amBrowser has cursed me too.
Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 6:57 pm