Monday, 06 July 2009
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Short and Sweet...
I am tired, and my head is aching. So I am keeping this very "short and sweet".
This weekend has been nonstop work. We started first thing Saturday morning (after a sleepless night with a very feverish, fussy baby) and began our "project".
What was that "project", you ask? Well, it was taking our well established "boys" room and our office, and switching locations.
Really, it was not hard at all!
All we had to do was to dismantle the triple bunkbed, move all the (four) boys possessions out into the living room, clean the empty room, unshelve my 1,000+ books from my beautiful book case, dismantle my book case, move the bookcase into the old boys room, reassemble it, reshelve all 1,000+ books, empty the office contents into the kitchen, clean the empty office room, insert the triple bunkbed and reassemble in the appropriate place, move all the boys possessions into their new room, then go through all the office "stuff" to see what was absolutely necessary to keep and what I could possibly part with.
See, not hard at all!
The "office" is not even going to be an office at this time. 1of9 is moving into it, though she will share it with my precious books. So my office stuff must be packed up and stored, or just gotten rid of. And with minimal amount of spill over here and there, I have it down to only four totes of keeper stuff sitting in my kitchen.
As much as it hurt, I had to part with a massive amount of educational books that were worth well over $3,000. I will never be able to replace them. But, it was them or my daughter! No contest!
(I mean, really! She is cute and all, I just could not trade her for the books!)At least I was able to do the most painful partings quickly, and by tonight they are all making someone else very happy in their new homes. What is left to be rid of is just mostly obsolete books that don't mean much, but they don't take up much space either (they will be gone to Goodwill this week.
Anyways, I am going to go crash now. The LO has finally settled down. (He has been quite fussy the last two days, not feeling well, and all the upheaval has only made it worse. I owe him a day all to myself, that will be tomorrow!)
Later!
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Comments (2)
Wowzers! That's quite a project! I know how hard it is to give up books, especially treasured educational ones that you have learned so much from. I'm presuming there was no place to store them for the interim. Hope LO is feeling better!
So much had to be done. And I regret that there is no place to store anything more than what I already have stored here. We are currrenly renting a house, it is a really nice house and a perfect price, but the landlord has a quarter of the basement as well as the garage set aside for his stuff (locked up and our of our reach). We knew this when we moved in, so we don't complain, but it would really be nice if we had all that space.
But that is life.
As for the LO, he made a quick recovery. He had a short lived bug topped off with teething. Bugs gone and tooth is in. So he is a happy camper again!