The New Homemaker Newsletter for November 22, 2008
Dear Readers,
The Knitting Olympics started last night and I'm already behind! What was I thinking, knitting a whole sweater in 16 days? Oh well, it'll get finished one way or the other. I'll be chronicling my progress in Diary, so watch for it the next two weeks.
Have you had an odd winter where you are? Here it's rained even more than usual, which is saying something, and now it's warm and extremely windy. I don't know what to think, except that I'm glad people are finally starting to pay attention to global warming. I hope it's not too late.
We've started our spring cleaning early. John has quit smoking, which makes him restless, and cleaning/organizing seems to help calm him down. So we've embarked on the One Room at a Time plan and so far so good. Last month was the kitchen; we got rid of two huge boxes of stuff we don't use any more and reorganized the place. Amazingly, it's stayed fairly clean since, and we can now sit at the kitchen table for coffee in the mornings. The girls can sit there now and eat their breakfast and lunch while I do dishes and cook. It's entirely pleasant.
This month we're treating the entire upstairs (a converted attic) as one room. Our bedroom and the hallway office have gotten their first pass, and today we're starting on the hallway reorganization. Right now it's an office space that really isn't being used. We're going to cut down the built-in desk (which has room for four old-style desktop computers) to hold just one computer for the girls and the routers and modems. The remaining space will be a desperately needed play space and toy storage for the girls; all toys will be banished to the upstairs every night. The girls' room is in such a state we can't even start on it until we've got their playspace done. They've just plain run out of room.
We've got until the end of the month to chip away at this. A bunch of folks at TNH are doing the One Room at a Time plan (you choose the room); if you'd like to join them, be sure to stop by the current thread in the forum.
And somewhere in all this, I've got to figure out what to do for John for Valentine's Day! Any ideas? What are you doing for your significant other?
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