Productivity

  I love three day weekends!  We get so much done.  Ok, Big T gets so much done.  Look what he did yesterday:  

     The term, "Go put it away in the storage area," meant, "Throw it on the floor," in parent to kid translation. Everything is off the floor!  It is even vacuumed and the honey spills are washed off.  Yeah!  The stuff was so deep you couldn't see the bottom shelves.  Now things are sort-of organized and on the shelves.  I am so thrilled.
     On Saturday and yesterday I spent my time doing this:  

     Notice the floor?  Notice there are organizers in place?  I only have about fifteen more loads and then my laundry room will be clean!  It has taken me a month or so to get it to this point.  By next week you will see a pristine laundry room.  We have five or six garbage bags ready for DI.  I had no idea we were so out of control.  I figure that as soon as the laundry is taken care of and systematically kept up the rest of the house will not be such an overwhelming mountain of dread.  Remember what it used to look like?

     Big improvement, huh?  This mess did not include all the clothes all over the house.  The cleaner version does include all of the laundry.  Way to Go!  Yes, I needed the self-pat on the back today because I had to pray myself out of bed.  Maybe I will do something before the Blue and Gold banquet tonight.  Maybe I'll even sew B's patches on his brand new scout shirt.  He is so excited to be flipped upside down to have his Bobcat pinned on upside down so that he can earn it and have it turned right-side up.  I'll be sure to take pictures of his grin of glee that I and certain will appear on his face when dangling in the air by his feet.  Until then, enjoy whatever efforts you must make today to get through the day.