Since there was so much that needed to be done inside the house today after all of last week’s adventures, it seemed the perfect time to ignore all the bathrooms and laundry and kitchen disaster and head out to an area of the house which most certainly needed priority attention. Not.
So I decided to tear apart the garage.
Now let me establish that our garage has long been a depository of all things extra furniture, yard equipment, trikes and bikes for ten people, plus all the trikes and bikes that have been out-grown/haven’t been grown into yet. There’s all the beach equipment from our days of living on the island. There are the packed cabinets of all nature of my power tools from back in the days when I had a quaint and colossal project of a colonial house that I was restoring back in Oklahoma. There are all the bits and pieces of all the house projects we’ve encountered along our path. There are buckets and buckets of shoes. And animal supplies. And empty aquariums.
So you see why it was so important for me to prioritize cleaning the garage today instead of tackling the more urgent matters like toilets and toy room.
I hauled and threw and tossed and swept. I kicked up dust storms like a miniature Dust Bowl. I heaved and shoved and generally moved the junk around.
And the younger kids are enchanted.
They are calling the garage the New Family Room. They asked to go sit out there after dinner.
Which gives you a clue as to the condition of the rest of the house if the garage is a haven of order and cleanliness.
Sigh.
How are there no pictures from this wonderful purging? It's spring cleaning season and sounds like you're off to a great start! Kudos to you SuperMommy!
How do you always manage to write about my life? I tackled the same project last Saturday while my husband was camping with the scouts. All the while, my kitchen counter was unaccessible….and still is.
Funny, Sister Friend. I opened my garage for the first time in weeks to take out the yard waste bags to the curb and realized, maybe clearing it out isn't such an awful undertaking as I thought. Then it began raining and quashed any ideas I had of cleaning it out.
I started spring cleaning small, only 15 bins of summer clothing down from the attic to sort. It has been sorted into boys/girls bins of things that should fit them now. Maybe friday afternoon I can try stuff on them.
I think I will just hang up the winter coats and snow pants in one of the kids closets. It's not like they ever hang up anything themselves, so there is plenty of room. š Nad the bins of boots, mittens and hats/scarves can go in the bottom of the same closet. I only have 100+ more bins in the attic to sort. I could be through them all by Christmas?
LOL! This is what my husband does. He decides he needs to chip in and clean house, and he does the garage. Then the kids are thrilled to "hang out" in there. We even have an old couch so they can listen to big brother play the drums. š