........ completed and mailed 135 wedding invitations (yikes.....)......
........ cut ribbons for the little bubble things to use after the wedding (instead of bird seed) and tied ribbons on 100 of them (still have LOTS to go, but a good start!)....
....... and began REALLY cleaning Mackenzie's disgustingly dirty, cluttered room!! I had promised (threatened) that if it wasn't clean before she left for camp, we would do it for her. In some respects, I'm glad Morgan and I took over the job, because we were TOTALLY unprepared for how much of a packrat that little girl is. Every drawer, every nook and cranny were STUFFED full of papers, old art projects, little doo-dads she's created, and much, much more -- a box full of ROCKS (!!); a box full of marbles & the ring tabs off the top of soda cans (why???? I don't know!); dirty clothes stuffed in the back of a toy shelf (again, why???) Morgan and I worked in there for probably 3+ hours and have removed seven bags of trash, old broken toys and stuff that just isn't worth taking to GoodWill. Additionally, we currently have two laundry baskets full of stuff for GoodWill, and a basket that went to the basement with all the dirty clothes we found that need washed. Wow...... what a job...... and we're not finished yet....... And of course (as you can see from pictures below), when you try to organize this much stuff, first you make an even LARGER mess before it starts looking better....... sigh......
Moving stuff into the hall to get some additional working space....
A view of the disaster as we were trying to organize.....
Starting to pull stuff out of the closet to sort and organize....
Cleaning out under the loft......
A shot AFTER we found the surface of the computer table and unburied Cody's dog crate......
Hopefully, pictures will be posted tomorrow showing a HUGE improvement!! Plans before Kenzie returns from camp also include taking down the loft and converting it to a captain's bed, moving the computer table downstairs to the school room and adding bookshelves to hold the books and toys. Mighty ambitious, but I'm giving it my best shot!!
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