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This is my second attempt on this post - the first disappeared when I tried to insert a smiley, so if I appear a bit grim, it's nothing personal. It's a great day when all our children decide on something constructive to do, and go off and do it! This weekend it's been about revamping rooms. L has taken out the purple carpet she's had for about five years, and the ancient green office-style carpet that was under it and was considerably older. She has also taken out huge amounts of rubbish, which to my mind is quite an accomplishment. She wants to paint the floorboards white. The boys - especially J - have begun a huge project to redecorate their room. There is a large pile of junk waiting to go - I have been sorting through, retrieving things I think deserve better than landfill, putting paper into recycling, and occasionally finding a treasure, such as a photo of J aged about 18 months, making his way up the steps of a mobile library when we lived down in Dorset. His trademark shock of white-blond hair shows up from a distance! Then there was another from a couple of years ago, on a school trip to Germany, where he's sharing a chairlift with a girl whose name I don't know. Today he has been painting the royal blue walls white. The plan is three white walls and a navy blue one. He has taken down the curtain rail and his bed is pulled out at an odd angle, so all in all the room is a tip, half painted and strewn with debris, but it's headed in the right direction. J's idea is that once the painting is done, he will replace the old carpet with laminate flooring. Soooo... my main activity has been reshuffling the 'stuff with a lid' - and N's has been getting some of it out of the door! There is also an enormous amount of laundry, partly because the weather hasn't been kind recently, and partly because of the clear-out. Today I had to drag it in off the line in a hurry - we had woken up to snow this morning (!), but it thawed, then we had further brief showers of hard snow in the afternoon, and it wasn't worth bring in the things off the line because they didn't really get wet. Then, suddenly, there was a heavy hail shower followed by great flakes of snow falling quite fast. I probably spent a couple of hours using the warning beeper on the iron as a kind of timer - iron a few clothes, then set the iron down, put the clothes away, grab and sort another handful of stuff from the boys' room, hear the 'you have left me alone and I'm still plugged in' beep going on the iron, hurry back to do another garment... Rearranging stuff under it's lid - where does that come in the eternal perspective? I am glad some of it is gone as we couldn't take it with us! |
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Posted by Denise 