Better

I am feeling less ledge-hangy this week.

I go through this frequently, and especially when lots of things don't go exactly as I've planned them. I know, I need to chill the heck out. And I am working on it.

Getting the girls into their new room and setting up the playroom helped, but also added to my stress because then I had all that much more work to do.

The playroom was almost immediately overrun with toys. I had done nothing with the closets in each room, which tend to be a dumping ground for me. All the pictures in the rooms needed to be moved around and there was a bunch of stuff that needed to be rehomed after all the shuffling was over.

I did most of that this morning.

My mom came and got Lucy for her swimming lesson at 8 and Courtney came and picked Emily up for preschool at 845. Once they were gone, I started in on the closets. I pulled everything out, bagged up a bunch of stuff to be donated to the preschool, our church and to St Pauly Mission; tossed a bunch of things that were in need of tossing and moved all of Lucy's clothes over to the closet in her new room.

And then I moved on to Lucy's closet in her old room. And did the same thing in there. I have a bunch of crib-related things that need to get boxed up and stored downstairs until we decide if Lucy is The Last Baby.

Once the closets were in better shape I worked on moving the pictures around so that Lucy's birth record and name print were in her room on her side of the room and Emily's stuff is on her side.

I also worked on the mountain of laundry downstairs and am nearly down with all the washing. I have a fair amount of folding yet to do, but that just means I get to watch some West Wing episodes.

All of this organizing has made me feel much more relaxed about the state of the house. I need to do the same thing in the kitchen. My new cupboard is still empty and I really need to get some stuff in there. I'm hoping we'll be able to go microwave shopping soon. With my dad here, it won't be this weekend. One project at a time, I guess.