Busy-ness

It hardly seems like it has been an entire month at home! We’d been gone so much in the spring – which was as it should be – that certain things around here had fallen terribly behind. I’d heard a rumor somewhere that I had a dresser in my bedroom. I even remembered seeing it once, a long, long time ago! Gaelin had outgrown two different sizes of clothes and all the clothes were stuck like some sort of weird time warp in his bedroom, leaving no room for the clothes that he needed to wear now. It was the same for Ethan and Elizabeth.

So over the course of the last month I’ve been working hard on getting our bedrooms straightened up. I got our room done first and discovered that we DO have a dresser underneath all that stuff! We pulled furniture out and I cleaned the windows.

Then it was time for Gaelin’s room (I’d already cleaned the room the rest of the kids are sleeping in). I went through everything and sorted it all – all the baby clothes, all the burp clothes, everything – and got it all put away or put in a place where it can be given away. It was quite the walk down memory lane, thinking of times when the older boys had worn the clothes that I got out for Gaelin to wear right now. So now Gaelin has a drawer for his clothes, Elizabeth has a drawer for hers, and Ethan’s drawer contains summer clothes. He’s loving that, since it has been quite hot for the last two or three weeks!Â

We’re hoping to have a garage sale in just a few weeks, as soon as I finish sorting everything in the house. I know it will need to be done again next year as we continue to pare down our belongings in order to move to Africa, and then again the following year before we actually move. So I have a goal that is only a few weeks away. But the next few weeks will be busier than these have been so it will be more challenging!