Spring Cleaning In January

Given the springtime weather, we've decided it's time to do some cleaning around the house.

Actually, we've realized that there really isn't that much time before things start happening around our house. The due date is 4 months from tomorrow. Also, we're likely going to have a visit from R's mom & sister at the end of the month, so we need to bring some order to the chaos... particularly the chaos in the basement. If the guest bedroom is to become the baby's room, then we will need to make more room for guests downstairs. Right now it's standing room only.

The basement was getting so bad that we could hardly walk around. After a round of renovations, two sets of complicated halloween costumes, and numerous camping trips, there were tools, gear, helmets, tents, wood and flooring all over the place.

First, we gathered all the junk into a corner. Then we realized that it was taking over that corner, so we annexed another corner. We also put together some piles to donate to Value Village. After going through all our clothes and shoes, the piles overflowed from our bed and trickled down the hallway. When we dropped it all off today, I felt a certain amount of pride that we had dropped off so much quality merchandise. The V.V. employees didn't say anything about it, but I'm sure they were wildly impressed.

With that out of the way, we can start preparing the baby's room. A lot of people have been asking us what we have planned for that room, and if we've started painting yet. Apparently, the standard practice is to doll the baby room up and make it look "fun". We just finished painting that room last year, so the baby is going to have have to settle for "grey". It's a nice grey -- with a little blue in it. I think he'll like it well enough.