I'm back to cleaning and purging. Organizing. Back to school season and a fresh new year bring that out in me.
Today: the bonus room and my closet. They have been the recipients of clutter while getting ready for the holidays. The movies were a mess! Why? It is just so simple. Please. Movies are like my spices: alphabetize. Then you always know where something is. The key to that is putting it BACK in the right spot. My family and I don't see eye-to-eye on that!
While I was thus practicing my abc spelling skills, a revelation came to me: WHY am I keeping movies we NEVER watch??? In my quest to change out all of our vhs to dvd's, I took a better look at what I was storing. Like The Return of Jafar. One of those Costco must haves when my kids were young. The original Aladdin is where it's at, right? And what about Fievel Goes West? Not. An American Tale is all we need for the grandkids. And The Perfect Storm. We've never watched it once since we bought the vhs version how many years ago? It's not even a choice when it comes on TNT. And we had a vhs of the Blues Brothers that had never been opened. Yes, still shrink-wrapped.
Into a box they, and others like them, went. Rosie and Lourdes were the grateful new owners. And the entertainment center shelves look much more respectable.
On to my closet. We replaced 3 burned out lightbulbs. OH! Let there be light! And I finally got started on that huge pile of mending and ironing sitting around since Halloween.
They say rain is coming for tomorrow and I am glad. After 2 weeks in Utah coming back to 75 degree weather the last week is a bit warm for me in January!
I still have my Christmas tree up and the mantle decorated. And you know what? I don't care! I'm enjoying every last bit of the lights. One can do that with an artificial tree. I think I'm converted.
FYI: Shaun and Meredith went to the beach today! SoCal January!
There was a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti today. 7.0 with several aftershocks in the 5.9 range. That itself would be a horrific earthquake. It looks and is said to be just about complete devastation in the capitol city of Port Au Prince. Matthew K. served his mission there. I know he has a tender heart for those people. I don't do earthquakes well. They scare the beejeebees out of me.
3 comments:
I love alphabetizing too. Robert organized our movies into "bonnet movies" and all others (we don't have that many). Bonnet movies are Pride and Prejudice etc.
I was about to type my comment when I read Natalie's and now I can't stop laughing. Bonnet movies..too funny. Good job on the organizing. I organize and things never get put back in their spots, and I only have one person in my house who could be the culprit. The bottles are called Dr. Brown's bottles you can get them at any store. They have this filter thing in them that is for colic/gassy babies. A friend gave them to me for a shower. I am not sure if they reduce gas more than any other bottle cause we have only used the playtex once and the Dr brown bottles. He only gets a bottle once every other day. So its hard to know.
Cherise and Natalie, the Dr. Brown bottles are wonderful and yes they do reduce the intake of air that the baby gets, which reduces the gas. My new granddaughter uses them and they have been amazing! One little tip though, when the baby gets about 6 months old start introducing the sippee cup. Anna had the sippee cup introduced to her at about 9 months and she doesn't like it, she wants good ol' Dr. Brown.
Congratulations on the birth of your boys!
Love ya!
Linda Lu
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