Closet Update

There's a floor!!!!  Who knew?!?  Downstairs hall closet done.  This cleaning out thing is fun.  Maybe I'll quit my day job and become a professional organizer.  Top left on shelf - sunscreen, pool bags and hats in box, monkey backpack (aka legal child leash) and then bags - gym, feed bag for farmer's market and backpack we use when out with kids.  Shelves on floor hold winter hats and scarves which will eventually end up in side tables on either side of the bench in the entry but I haven't found what I am looking for yet.  Back of closet holds the array of suitcases, us being avid world travelers and all (not), and vacuums we have yet to part with even though we have in-house vacuum here.  And I will never EVER live anywhere without.  I don't care if I have to install it myself.

In other news, my aunt posted this on facebook yesterday and it totally made me laugh.  And weep with truth because coffee owns my a**.  I just can't quit you!!

Around the house

I took the weekend off from taking too many pictures.  I'm not going to point any fingers, but it may have been due to a small tow headed prince who was super fussy and not sleeping.  Maaaaay have been.  The good news is that I am in super-power-ranger-cleaning out phase.  And no, there is no monkey or prince want to be hiding in the belly.  If that were the case, I wouldn't be nesting.  I'd be hopping a plane for Africa.  Anyhoo, back to the task(s) at hand.  Sorry for the lack of before pictures but seeing as all my genius work is performed on a whim, this was no different.  Picture me walking by a room (usually on my way to do a different, more pressing task), stopping in my tracks, exclaiming 'I can't handle this anymore!  Too much crap!  Where did all this crap come from?  Who needs this many ______ (fill in the blank - toys, bags, shoes, diapers for newborns without there being any newborns...you get the picture).  So I have bags and bags of stuff that will be going to people who need these things.  Who don't have clothes for interviews, don't have the means to purchase toys, who need baby supplies.  I apologize for the serious rant and will get back to funny now.

The wasn't hardly set foot in formal playroom (that there is a joke.  We call it that because technically it's a super small formal dining.  The dining in the kitchen is a HUGE open space that can accommodate our 10 person table no sweat.  This dining space may tightly fit four or six.  Am I the only one this doesn't make sense to?!?)  It used to have a kids table in the middle and tons of toys on the shelves.  Moved in some chairs that weren't really working in the tv room, cleared the middle space and organized everything in baskets.  Well, everything that was left after the clear out that is.  There is still a little more to do but 100% improvement already.

 I found this a short while later.  It's amazing how much this room is used now.  They know where everything is and like having the floor to play and the chairs to sit in.  Obs.

On a separate note, this is what you don't want to happen when things get delivered.  Note to all delivery drivers out there: DO NOT open pallets with knives.  They cut things.  And then I have to deal with horrible customer service to have your stupidity remedied.  (Note note: I do not think the delivery guy was stupid.  His act was stupid.  Although common sense would have said not to use a knife.  Note of note of note: common sense does not equal brain smarts).

Weekend Glimpses, Craziness and Cake Pops

Lots happening behind the scenes over here...stay tuned, lots coming your way!   But something amazing happened over the weekend.  I found out that apparently the Monkey loves me more than a cake pop!!  That's right, she told me she loves me more than a cake pop.  That's pretty hard to beat.  Highest of all the high compliments, like ever.  Well, maybe loving me more than Frozen would be the highest, but more than a cake pop?  I'll take it.

As for right now, finally getting around to posting weekend glimpses.  There was some crafting going on, lots of Elsa braids (for those who aren't in the know, Elsa has a big braid down the side in the movie Frozen.  The Monkey is ob-sessed with Frozen and her hair being in an Elsa braid), a trip to the farmers market with all sorts of goodies being picked up, in which the prince wasn't letting those farm fresh eggs go anywhere..., music and cooking and trains leaving the station, and finally swimming.

Whew!  I'm exhausted!!  Now you know why it took me so long to get these pictures up! :)