Mess

In preparation for (or perhaps in honor of) my new job, we've embarked upon a new organizational adventure. In particular, the part of the guest room/office space that has become the repository for all of those boxes needs to be cleaned out. I need that space to put my brand new desk for the work at home part of my gig.

The problem with organizational adventures is that while they usually turn out well, or at least you hope they do, in the short term they generate mess. Sometimes a lot of mess. Or, in the case of the current adventure, a truly gigantic amount of mess.

On the plus side, many of the kids' games are now playable for the first time in who knows who long. This makes them very happy, and makes me even happier because when they start whining about there being nothing to do besides play the computer (having used up their computer time), it's much easier to come up with multiple concrete examples of things there are to do that are not the computer. With so many games (and there are many, many games), I can usually find something they're willing to play.

On the minus side, we clearly have multiples of several games. How many Memory games does anyone need? I suspect that it's something less than the either 3 or 4 that have surfaced.

On the great big minus side is the mess. We made huge inroads into the mess during Relly Girl's afternoon nap yesterday, but then had to gate a room off from everyone because she woke up mid-mess. Most of that mess is gone now (organized even), but the guest room/office space is very, very much a work in progress. Lots of progress has been made, in no small part because LSH decided to take his day off to work on the house, but it's still spread over most of the floor. Usually that would mean that the floor would be covered for a while, LSH having an incredible tolerance for disorder, but I think my Dad is coming this week and see above re guest room. He's got to have room to walk.

And then there's the every day mess generated by 3 kids, 4 dogs, and a very messy husband, but right now, that kind of mess doesn't even rate.