More purging of toys.

We've filled both garbage cans (the ones we put out for the trash trucks to dump out) with toys not good enough to donate.  We also have a huge stash of toys for ARC (thrift store that helps developmentally disabled people) and a toddler bed (since we converted Megi's crib into a daybed).  It probably amounts to multiple thousands of dollars of toys that we've removed (or are removing) from our house all at once.

We also managed to get two rooms vacuumed for the upcoming holiday visit.  The kids' rooms need to be swept or vacuumed and they'll be clean.

We still need to clean the office and kitchen before the big day.  We also still need to finish the loft (needs vacuumed still) and clean/vacuum our bedroom, and then the house will be mostly cleaned (spring cleaning style, even)!

I haven't gotten any writing done towards my book today, but feel much better about the progress towards the house cleaning project.

That's all for this blog entry, thanks for reading!

Cleaning out the House from Toys

Today, we threw away half the kids' toys from the toy room.  OK, we threw away a quarter of them and have another quarter ready for donation.  We've reclaimed a large portion of the room for walking!

We also put away the boxes for Christmas decorations along with miscellaneous empty boxes.  We're almost ready to clean for company Christmas day.  Hooray!

I'm going to label the toy drawers for the next time they go to pick up various toys, they'll hopefully put things away in the right places.

We still have the loft to go through and throw away/donate, as well as a crap load of toys we "threw away" that are actually in bags in the basement.  Almost all of it will get thrown away or donated (the rest will be kept if it belongs with stuff that we've kept before like doll house furniture, toy cooking stuff, etc).