Six weeks ago I wrote about the kids sharing a room permanently. We moved them in together in order to make Penelope’s room a play room. Finally, we sold the baby furniture, gave my sister-in-law back her rocking chair, and got a bookshelf to store things. Last week I moved all the toys out of the living room into the play room. Now our bookcase looks like this: It was then I realized, our kids have a lot of crap. I mean, seriously, 6 shelves? Really? They also had stuff on top of the two armoires in our bedroom, and [...]
In The Doll House
My sister-in-law got the girls a doll house for Christmas two years ago. It’s four feet tall, purple and pink with stairs, a balcony, and a working elevator. It came fully furnished in the same purple and pink motif, 2 beds, 2 sofas, a dining room table (which was blue for some reason) and chairs, a chaise lounge, two floor lamps, basically the works. The girls never really got into it. They were a little young to be into playing with dolls in that way. It would be more developmentally appropriate if they got it today. But being that it [...]
10 Tips for Getting Organized
I’ve gotten the organization bug this year. It’s time to get this house in order. The crap all over drives me nuts. It messes with my zen and puts my Feng Shui out of kilter. It makes me twitchy. When I’m twitchy, I’m also something that rhymes with twitchy. I’ve had to accept after five years, our house is not suddenly going to sprout another room or two. Five people, fifteen hundred square feet, no basement, no attic. When I look around at all the junk, I imagine our house like a cartoon, bulging and straining at the seams until [...]
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