A very productive Sunday!

One of the good things about getting snowed in...there's only so much you can do at home and you are forced to gravitate all of the otehr projects that you have been procrastinating. The big one for me was the basement and specifically the kids toys. Their toys starting from Sean's baby years were all in the basement. More than half of which they dont even take a look at. I've been meaning to sort through them and get rid of some for a while now. So Sunday was the day for that. I made 3 piles - Keep, Throw and 'Good to sell'. All of the Mc Donald toys went to the Throw pile along with the ones with parts missing or parts with the main toy missing...yeah they are entirely different :) We had puzzles with pieces all over and to figure out if we have all the pieces, I sat through and put them together...without a their boxes i had no clue what they looked like assembled but puzzle time turned out to be quite a good break in thye midst of all the toy sorting. I put away all of the toys we can give away or do a yard sale with. Sean already proclaimed that all money from the yard sales go to him :) The basement looks so much cleaner now and it just has the toys that the kids play with now. I think this is going to be an excercise that I have to do atleast every year or maybe even every 2 years. Since they are out of the baby and toddler years they wont outgrow their toys as fast and ofcourse the toys are not that bulky either (atleast for Sean), so that's always good for space management :) I should have taken a before and after picture....what a world of difference! esp after the vaccuming and febreezing...it does need a coat of paint and i'm hoping we'll get to that sooner.

The rest of Sunday was spent on laundry. 5 loads washed folded and put away. Phew! Everyone has clothes in their closet...that is a great feeling :)

Most of the time our weekend just whiz past since those are the only 2 days to get everything done. Since we were stuck inside the house this weekend it was great to tackle a few of the projects that were on the back burner. I really wish there were more days like sunday to tackle the 'back burner' projects!