The very last day of November is here, and I am not certain of how much new work I am going to have moving into December. I was fortunate enough to pick up some last minute projects that carried over Wednesday, Thursday & Friday of last week, but budgets are thin, and I don’t know if any of my clients will put anything else together before the new year starts. If they don’t have any work for me, then I’m going to spend more of my time using my chainsaws to clean up at the farm, and I am going to use the time to purge our house before Christmas dumps a bunch of new “stuff & things“into our midst. With any luck all outstanding invoices will get paid in December, and I won’t have to wait until January to get my funds.
So those are my options if no more work is forthcoming. Clean, clean, clean inside the house. Tackling closets, toy boxes, drawers and junk piles. Washing windows, blinds, ceiling fans, and light fixtures. Dusting hard to reach spots, and vacuuming out the air vents. Doing another ruthless purge of all of our collected junk, broken items, busted toys, and whatnot.
I feel as though I have tried to do a good job of that sort of thing over the last year or two, so there really shouldn’t be too much of it left. Except the kids rooms which hoard stuff and it gets kinda crazy every four to six months in their bedrooms. If we could limit the stuffies to just 10-15, instead of the 200 or so each, that might go a long way towards tidying things up. Neither kid plays with dolls much any more, so we could move the dolly oriented mess into the basement. Get rid of some bean bag chairs that don’t get used by anybody, and those can sit in the basement. See both kids are afraid to be in the basement by themselves, so they don’t play down here much at all. But I’d prefer the doll houses, and toys be down here and out of the living room. Just to free up space, and declutter the main living room. Even when clean it’s a visual cacophony, and still a mess.
I don’t want the girls to grow up too fast, I just don’t want every toy directly underfoot 24/7. Maybe I can convince them to let me move it down here today!?! Make a real kids zone downstairs for them to enjoy, more so than the Lego city they have set up, and don’t really touch anymore. We will see.
Purge, clean, rearrange, and farm chores will try to keep me occupied. Once the birthday party is done I can focus on Christmas itself. Lots to do on that front still. All three stockings need stuffers. A thoughtful gift each. Niece’s & nephews, inlaws, and my parents. Ugh! It never seems to end.
Well I started with good intentions, and got side tracked by laundry, and the grocery order that came in. Did get the ok to relocate one doll house to the basement. It’s not much, but it’s a start. Positive thinking! When they go back to school tomorrow I will just move more things because they haven’t touched the lol doll cars in months, and the display case can go downstairs too. Perhaps the toy box could go downstairs too. Open up the living room floor a little bit. Since they’ve glued themselves to their tablets the physical toys have grown dusty cobwebs from disuse. They are growing up. It’s not dolly houses, it 99 nights in the first, and killing each other in Roblox mini games. Oh how sad the passage of time is.
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