I was on a roll...

I was on a roll with my blogging last week..I think it was the most blogs I've ever done in a single week. And then I stopped. But it hasn't been a full week yet since I last blogged, so I think I'm okay. [Literally the moment I started typing Adelynn started screaming from the other room and came over here to me, still crying. Of course the other two followed her- adding to her torture. So now I'm sitting here with Kynden balancing on the footstool and hanging on to my chair, Ellyanna was screaming a minute ago, because I picked up Adelynn and not her,but is now on my other side pacifying herself with milk and Adelynn is sitting in my lap. Just thought you'd like to know!]

Yesterday turned into a very busy day for me. I hadn't really planned it that way, but that's the way it turned out. My goal for yesterday was to clean out the hallway. Not too hard of a job, you say? Well, you hadn't seen my hallway. Last weekend I had gone over to my mom's house and picked up 3 twin mattresses and exchanged our extra full sized bed for her twins. I figured that it was time. Anyway, the transition that followed was huge! Since bringing home the beds, I have rearranged their room 3 times trying to figure out best how to have 3 beds in there without it looking too much like and orphanage, cleaned out their closet and re-arranged all the clothes since I ended up having to put a dresser in there, cleaned their room about 102 times, went through all of their toys, keeping only ones that they actually played with, hung new curtains, re-arranged some of their belongings, painted the stripes on the wall that had been waiting about 6 months, painted and re-hung pictures in their room..uh, what am I forgetting? Anyway, you get the idea. Because of all this transitioning, the hallway outside of their room became very full of all the stuff that was being cleaned out. But on the other hand, I get the joy of blessing 4 people with all the stuff I cleaned out! My sister got a HUGE amount of clothes, towels, toys, etc that I had saved to pass on to her as well as stuff I had just cleaned out, Allison got some outgrown clothes for Ava, my mom got one of the playpens to keep at her house and my friend Heidi who is pregnant with her first baby girl will be getting another big bunch of stuff. How fun for me! So yesterday I cleaned the hallway..what I didn't realize was that in order to feel good about the hallway being clean I also was going to have to clean the girls' room again, the bathroom, and the boys' room as well as the living room which had been trashed the previous day by the girls getting into and dumping out several board games. Oh yeah, and I also did 352 loads of laundry. Whew! I'm getting tired again just reading about it! Is anyone still reading this?

But all the work has a huge payoff for me. It felt so good to wake up to a (mostly) clean house this morning. I get to think about how fun it is for my sister today to get all that stuff for Bailey especially since she barely had anything since she had the baby before the shower! And it was so nice to be able to get the girls dressed this morning without having to search for 10 minutes to find an entire outfit. Including the socks! Did I mention that I cleaned out their sock drawer yesterday too? I took everything out and dumped it out on the floor and they about had a fit! They LOVE socks! Funny girls.

The other great thing about doing all this work is that...IT'S GOING TO STAY DONE!. Thanks to my (albeit slow) genius of the baby gates, the girls aren't even allowed in their room unless it's time to sleep or get changed. They now are only allowed in the main living areas. So I can clean things (outside of the main living areas) and they stay that way for at least an hour. Such freedom! Not only that but I also get the benefit of a day-long ab workout for every time I step over a gate. Once I get the bed frames painted and installed I'll take a pic of their room. It's pretty cute if I do say so myself. And the great thing is that I haven't even spent any money. At least not yet. We still have to buy a third bed frame and mattress since we only get to keep 2 of the three from my mom. And I have to buy about a million cans of black spray paint to paint stuff..but that's it. Okay, now I'm just rambling...I'll go now.