Chaos!

Our house is in chaos right now. See two things happened in late December and early Janurary:

1. We got a new couch. While I’m very excited about this new couch, our old one is in our living room (which already has its own couch), waiting for a friend to take it away, or failing that, be sold on Craigslist. There are also a few other items that we are getting rid of hanging around in that general vicinity, so the room to your right as you enter our house? Not really a room so much as a furniture dumping ground. Our tree is also still up, somewhere behind there. Cheers!

2. We started work on Ben’s Big Boy Room. Part of that was getting him a new dresser and bookshelf. See, there used to be cabinets in his room because before it was his room, it was an office,

and we needed a dresser/bookshelf arrangement bigger than the old one to hold the stuff that came out of the cabinets when they were removed (shelves are gone too!). The old bookshelves went to a friend, but the old dresser remains, still needing to make its way to Craigslist. But in any case, new dresser, new bookshelf and old dresser are currently residing in my office because they can’t be in Ben’s room because work is on-going. Ben himself is bouncing between his toddler bed in his room and the aero bed in Sissy’s room (where he stays up ’til all hours chatting with Sissy and making mischief – thank God they don’t have to share a room regularly).The room currently looks like this:

Cabinets are gone, shelves too. There is a strip of bare floor against the wall that we’re trying to cover with remnants. No word yet on whether or not this will work. Matt is making new baseboard for the pieces of wall the cabinets were covering and the wall is primed (it will be a darker green AND I don’t have to do any of the painting – yay!). Once all that (baseboard, carpet, painting) is done, we can start building his bed … and of course get his furniture out of my office.

So three rooms of our house (Ben’s room, our living room and my office) are completely unusable. This of course is pushing stuff that needs to go into these rooms into all the other rooms. And I am inundated by STUFF. Obviously, we’re getting rid of the furniture, etc. as fast as possible, but it takes time! Meanwhile, let’s just hope I don’t have a pile of stuff fall over on me. I really can’t handle it right now. 😉