Sunday, December 30, 2007

Cleaning house


Some people might say that I am nesting. I have an unbelievable urge to throw things out and organize our house. On Saturday Matt put together two book cases my parents got for us at Costco for all the books the girls have. He also put together the toy/bookcase we got right around the time Jordan was born. He hung our "art line" to showcase our daughter's beautiful art work . We also threw some things away in the garage, this is not an easy task as our garage is packed with junk. We probably need to spend at least four more days working in that garage.
Once we are done with the garage we need to move inside and empty drawers, closets and shelves. I want to get rid of the heavy pieces of furniture in our dining room because they collect clutter and they are just too large. Once we are done with that we need to move upstairs and re-paint the big girls room, paint the new babies room/guest room and buy some furniture. It is amazing how even though we have two beautiful cribs for the new baby to sleep in, we need to buy MORE furniture. It seems we need more stuff now than we did when Jordan was born.
We have been spending the last few days looking for and investigating children's furniture. It is amazing how expensive the furniture is and I do not even know if the quality is any good. I went to several stores and was less than thrilled with what they had. The colors were all dark and the actual size of the furniture was huge. We are looking for beds that the girls can grow up with so we do not have to re-buy beds when they get older. I might have found a bunk bed (which we can use as single beds), dresser and night stand on-line that will grow with the girls.
I have picked out the linens that I want to use in the girls room and Matt can not believe how much sheets cost. He wants to know why quilts are so expensive, especially when you have to multiply it by two. I told him to look at the bright side, at least we are able to reuse the bumper, dust ruffle, and window treatment for the new babies room.
The good news is that we have another fifteen weeks before the baby comes to get our house organized and clutter free.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes, some "might" say your house is "cluttered." Others "might" say it "differently." Did you find that grand piano you lost before the girls were born?
It is a custom to name a child after a significant event- I'll have to look up a biblical way to say 'dust bunny'!
:) DR