my living room has been completely rearranged; something i've wanted done since about a week after we moved in here which was also about a week before ransom was born. now that i have honest to goodness shelves in my living room, i feel like the apartment is tremendously improved. i have books on display again! books!! and it also enabled me to free up some actual closet space for things that do need to be hidden away, like, say, potty chairs. who wants those out when not being used? not i. the new layout also allows for a greater play area for all of us. ron can get down on the floor with the boys and make massive GeoTrax layouts while hester and i take a break on the couch. no one needs to be exiled to the bedroom anymore.
as far as the bedroom goes, i have my shelves/dresser cleared off about 2 days after my last post. has it stayed that way? a resounding no. is it anywhere near as bad as it was initially? again, a resounding no.
after mostly tackling that project, i moved on to the infamous corner of crap, in front of our closet.
it now looks a million times better. see all those white laundry baskets? emptied and stacked neatly in the closet for laundry sorting day. the giant stack of green boxes that contain christmas ornaments? stored in the babies room (which is where we actually store things like that). anything belonging to hester, like the blankets and towels, are now neatly inside that pink box, which is still in my but only because she's in transition from 0/3 month size to 3/6 months. the blue toy box lid is tucked inside my closet door, on the side we don't use and all those cardboard boxes have been disposed of appropriately. i could actually see my floor for a week or two. and then the mastitis kicked in and i've been out of commission with fevers, chills, and mandated rest for a couple of weeks now. i'm still not completely over it, but there's only so much sitting around and doing nothing any SAHM can be expected to do (you know, once she's decided to get up off her butt and do something).
not only did i manage to drastically improve the condition of the bedroom, i also managed to start improving my overall health. i filled that empty void left behind by the pile of crap with...*drum roll please*...a treadmill! yes, it's used, and yes i bought it on craig's list, but it's a functional treadmill and it's mine! i can now begin my daily half hour walks at night, after the kids are down for the count, and, here's hoping, lose some of the baby weight i've been accumulating steadily since...when was rimmy born? 2005? yeah, since then.
on a the crafting front, hester has gotten to wear her sweater multiple times since it's completion because june's weather has just sucked that badly. apparently, we're all being forced to live in seattle east. it's been raining or threatening to since some time in may almost non-stop. it's been so chilly, in fact, that i've had hardly any problems working on my project linus blanket for the essex county chapter. it's about halfway done i think, although it's hard to tell on this one as it starts at a corner and builds up on two sides for a while before the back and forth work begins. i'm using up some super saver i had on hand from edward's MIL. i figure i got it for free so it's only fitting to use it for charitable purposes, right? it's navy blue, red, and heather gray. it's for a teen boy i'm guessing from the colors and size i decided to make it. i also have to get some yellow and orange so i can make a duck for lori.
oh well, kiddies are beginning to awaken so i guess fun time is over on here.
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