Spring has come late this year but I think it is finally here… Fresh air is flowing through the house and cleaning is easier…
Something about having the windows open makes it easier to get into the cleaning mood and makes the house Feel cleaner at the same time…
I am getting back into the decluttering mood and at a community sale for baby/kid items we sold some things at yesterday that we got when I was pregnant with Xavier and used a few times but have proved to be completely useless or cumbersome and I would never use for another baby… a playpen and portable swing being two of the useless (and quite a bit sad baby containment devices) and a 3 in 1 high chair that just took up too much space and we didn’t even use much for Colin… a few other things also made it out the door never to return…
Decluttering feels so good and it makes it so much easier to clean up also…
As for the boys at the moment…
Xavier doesn’t like going out side too much… so he often sits at the kitchen table with construction toys… making Star Wars figures, spaceships and robots and then playing out stories with them…If we do convince him to go play outside though, he stays out for long and then wants to stay out…
Colin however loves playing outside and has been spending hours playing in little corners of the yard… It surprises me at times about how imaginative he is and he makes up tons of complex stories with cars and misc toys and of course his “Woody” and “Buzz”… the Toy Story toys… At two and a half his vocabulary is pretty much equal to Xaviers… the ideas are not always as complex but his language is there…
Another thing that has come with spring is the return of yardwork… I need to get my garden ready and as the snow and ice melted in the pool this year holes formed and the liner is beyond repair… since it was installed by the old owners and was not installed well… we are not going to make the same mistake… so new liner and installation will be one of the big ticket items this year… the other is the new fence of which the cost will be split between the neighbor and us…
Anyway… Spring is here…Â and it feels great!
