Now...The Westchester Fun Fest or Westchester Fest or "Go See Everyone You've Known Since You Were Four Years Old" Fest or whatever you want to call it is this weekend...so it is going to be a challenge for me to stay focused and on task to get things done. I feel somehow if I post my "To Do" list here, I'll feel more accountable and get more done.
So here goes:
* Clear out and organize the hop-in pantry
If anyone has any suggestions on long term organization for the pantry, PLEASE comment!! I need help. I'll organize it and then, 3 days later, the proverbial stuff hits the fan and things get tossed in and jumbled and it ends up looking like this picture.
As you can see, it's a good sized pantry. But it isn't a walk in, it's a hop in. The entry starts higher than Char's head, so it isn't easy to get into the back area. You have to literally clamber into the thing, so if you want to reach the back, you don't want to have anything in the middle. But that wastes a lot of space. HELP!
* Clear out and organize the kitchen cabinets, get rid of old baby bottles, etc.
Spice cabinet
Plates, glasses, cups, old unused bottles, sundae glasses...jumble!
Baking cabinet. On an awkward space-eating angle (Narrow opening, bigger in back)
Wine glasses, kids' plates and bowls, Lord knows what else???
* Paint ceiling and stone wall and floor of back stairway
* Kitchen floors (Peel-n-stick)
* Organize linen closet
* CLEAN UP THE BASEMENT - pack up baby stuff and realize, finally, that I'll never have a garage sale and just DONATE everything. Also realize that I'm not going to fit into size 10s from 5 years ago and let them go to a better place, too
Yeah, disgraceful. As I do laundry and come across stuff that's too small for Eleanor, I toss it onto that massive heaping pile. Then there's the excess blankets, sheets, old shower curtains I'll likely NEVER use again, ugly curtains, and so on. Oh, and tons of stuff on top of a gas stove. Totally safe, huh?
* Wash the windows
* Clean and organize the girls' bedroom
Tomorrow, depending on how open and unashamed I feel and just how accountable I want to be, I may take pictures of the offensive areas and do before and afters for each as I go along. MAYBE.