Keeping on keeping on

Time seems to be rushing past in a haze of missed opportunities and unmet deadlines.

The house is now at that awful stage where everything is everywhere and even though we’ve got rid of loads of stuff and created lots of storage space we haven’t yet put all the remaining stuff into the storage and there are several boxes which have been emptied apart from an inch or so of detritus which may or may not be important and so skulks there waiting for us to get round to looking at it properly and making decisions about its fate. Tempting though it is to just throw it all out, I have found enough treasures in amongst the dross to not want to risk losing any vital parts of complicated games… If push comes to shove, and let’s face it, it usually does, then all the boxes can be tipped into one mega Box of Doom and it can wait until I have the mental energy either to face it or to nag Bob into dealing with it 😉

We have listed things on Freecycle and now have the usual dilemma of how to choose who gets the things everyone wants and how long to wait before throwing out the potentially useful things no-one has asked about – big bag of packaging and Jiffy bags anyone? If we can complete one cot-bed jigsaw then I know someone who wants one and we certainly need the space, but we’ve got 2 in bits, it doesn’t look like enough bits for both and we need to end up with a small-size bed for A if we’re to demonstrably have enough beds for our French child as well as our 4. The fact that they hardly ever use a bed each is immaterial 😆

Friday was meant to be a catching up with normals day, with the incentive of painting the Paper of Paris masks we made the other day. It turned into a nagging and grumping day with very little achieved at all until I gave up and went out to the workshop to just get on with chores and sorting 🙁 At least that meant that the children had something to do with Big Alice on Saturday morning while I was sling demo-ing and Bob was taking things to the tip and then collecting some shelves for the workshop loft 😉 The masks look great (shame the lovely pearlised paints they used are now ruined as nobody thought to put the lids on 🙄 ) and by the time we got back Alice and the children had been for a very long walk and were eating lunch 🙂 Except A, who had fallen asleep in a carrier and woke up as we walked in, just in time for Mummy milk.
Sling morning went well again, with the same lady back again to show me how much she’d practised and to learn a new carry. She bought another sling too – I think she’s hooked already and she barely has a bump! I talked to another lady who had just come in to drop off maternity clothes to sell and ended up thinking about which colourway to go for and when she could make time to come and learn a carry, then a couple of friends who thought they both wanted pouch slings, but changed their minds first to ring slings being better and then to wraps (which they had discounted because they knew someone who had one and loved it but it was all stripy and made her look like a hippy – I tucked my Bebina rainbow under the Costa Rica Hopp and showed them the plainest ones in the catalogue 😉 ) because they looked by far the most comfortable 🙂 By now my 2 hours was well and truly up but Bob was still collecting shelves so when a family came in looking for a ring sling I was still handy and able to talk the mum through how to use it most comfortably if she was sure that was what she wanted. 5 minutes later she went out with a Lima Hopp ringsling – green because with 3 boys already and another on the way she said she was tired of blue!

Alice stayed for the afternoon too, which gave us (me!) a chance to put up most of the shelves and sort through several boxes in the loft. Possibly not the best use of time, with the house still a tip, but at least I know they’re done, there’s now lots of space in the loft and it will stay tidy because the children don’t go up there! It wasn’t half hot up there though, and today I feel lousy – not sure whether a bug or the result of too much time doing hard physical work in a hot stuffy environment. So Bob’s in charge and I’m on cola and toast, with 10 minute bursts of activity before retiring back to bed again…

3 thoughts on “Keeping on keeping on”

  1. hmm, i wonder if you fancy sorting our house now you are so skilled… great news about slings and wow to the tidying

  2. Our house seems to be semi-permanently at that awful stage. Our playroom has been a bike room for 3 months because we need to get rid of the junk in the garden and put some sort of bike storage out there. So many things that need doing are dependent on something else needing to be done and I lose track of where to start.

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