(Relevant background
info: our two youngest kiddos share a room. It’s the biggest bedroom
but our house was built in 1956, when rooms weren’t very big and closets were
the size of a phone booth.)
1)
Convince self that cleaning up is magical and exciting.
2)
Failing to convince self, look around at the
kids’ floor and decide that boring and overwhelming as cleaning it is, it must
be done.
3)
Take shelf off wall using drill so that you can…
4)
Move bunk bed so that stuff to the left of the
bunk bed is slightly easier to access.
5)
Install shelves between closet and bunk bed.
(Pat self on back for reusing shelf supports we already had and shelves that
have been in garage for over a year. Put blinders on and do not look around
garage at all the stuff there, because this will cause a minor panic, which—although
justified—does not help with the bedroom clean up.)
6)
Wonder why you didn’t install shelves in bedroom
two + years ago when you moved bunk bed in.
7)
Have allergy attack #5.
8)
Trip on stuff on the floor.
9)
Curse.
10)
Feel slightly better after cursing.
11)
Blow nose for 954th time.
12)
Hang up clothes that have been on top bunk for
weeks where a child once slept. (This takes hours.)
13)
Panic over amount of stuff still left to do.
14)
Notice that the Stuff Pile resembles size and
complexity of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Wonder whether you need climbing gear, axes and
extra oxygen to reach top of it.
15)
Organize books onto shelf. Smile at how tidy the
books look, all in harmony, shoulder to shoulder.
16)
Sweep remaining floor stuff (and there is
plenty) to one side and determine that it can wait.
17)
Sneeze.
18)
Blow nose.
19)
Panic over stuff to organize.
20)
Sweep.
21)
Repeat steps 17-20 many times.
22)
Vow that once this room gets clean (a relative
term), you will consider dealing with messy garage.
23)
Consider whether being kidnapped by aliens is
more appealing that dealing with messy garage.
24)
Shake head and lament fact that you did not
train the kids to do more cleaning when they were little. Shake head again and
remind self that feeding them seemed to take up most of the day and forgive
self for dropping the ball on cleaning.
25)
Look for lamp with genie inside so that you can
wish for instant clean up.
26)
Google origin of genie in a lamp tale instead of
cleaning.
Hi. Good. Job. :)
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