I spent a good part of the weekend in the kitchen going through cupboards and cleaning. I can't believe how much junk and duplicates we have. Somehow I ended up with six loaf pans and two bundt pans. I think some of them must be my mom's. She hasn't baked for years (no oven--don't ask) and so I think she brought them over for me to use at one point. I also had a couple of lids for pans and storage containers that I no longer have. I went through two junk drawers and threw most of the stuff away. I cleaned most of the cupboards and reorganized, i.e. moved stuff from one cupboard to another. I still have a bunch of work to do. I'm dreading the refrigerator. It hasn't been cleaned in a long, long time.
I threatened M that I was going to paint soon. He doesn't believe me and I don't blame him.
Goals....Schmoals! I have to have some. I'm tired--really this time--of waiting for him to help me. The other thing I'm tired of is him being so disapproving. If he doesn't like what I'm doing or, more, how I'm doing things, then he should help or do things himself. I know I'm not going to get new cupboards or a floor anytime soon. I would like to regrout and replace the vinyl baseboard thingies around the cupboards. One of the cupboard doors is hanging by one hinge. The front of the silverware draw came completely off last night. I don't know if it can be fixed. The back door between the kitchen and mud room needs to be replaced because the dogs have almost scratched through the door to the front of it...but, again, why bother as they'll just destroy the new one.
He finally moved the old dishwasher out of the back room that's been there for three months. I've asked him before, but he finally decided to do it. Maybe my plan of guilting people into things worked?!
We had a nice Easter, otherwise. S was upset that for the first year we didn't have an Easter egg hunt with plastic eggs. A asked me at 8 p.m last night when we were going to dye eggs? I did feel awful.... M and I went shopping with C for candy yesterday morning. I came home and threw their baskets together. The only thing we couldn't find was Pixie Sticks. I told the kids that the Pixies were on strike. S and A got stuffed animals. The older two wanted ITunes and Xbox cards. M caved. We finished our day with an early dinner of ham and sides. Oh, and M and I both helped S with her science fair project that is due tomorrow.
there's nothing like a stopped up drain to get me motivated to throw away old GladWare - i filled up four trash bags - two to keep and two to trash - now i hafta figure out how to get all of that back into the cabinet (even though it's only half the original amount) ... lemme know if guilt works for you - it doesn't work around here at all!
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