Productivity

Kristopher and I have been productive today!  Friday afternoon, Kris fed Rylee some chocolate Pediasure.  However, she threw it up on the carpet and a quilt.  Our carpets are nasty from Rylee puke.  There are times when she gives no warning and just throws up.  Which means the vomit most likely goes on the carpet.  We do scrub the carpet but it needs a good shampooing.  Last night, I had a baby in my belly who must have been uncomfortable because he/she did not stop moving all night.  From 3 to 5, my whole body practically shook when I was kicked, punched, head butted.  So needless to say, I was awake.  I was thinking about that living room carpet and when we could shampoo it.  I was going to clean out the kitchen cupboards and rearrange those and maybe the same in the bathroom.  But as I thought about it, that's a job that could wait another week.  That chocolate pediasure vomit had to come out of the carpet soon.  As a mother, the #1 thing that I have learned is that chocolate stains EVERYTHING!  It would be silly to rent a shampooer and only do the living room carpet.  So I talked to Kris in the morning.  We have a space issue in our house.  We have no room for a new baby the way our house was set up.  Kris and I are hogging the big bedroom while the kids have a smaller room they share.  We decided that switching rooms was in the best interest of everyone and it would maximize space.  In our big bedroom we had our big bed, dresser, computer desk and chair, bookshelf, 2 endtables, Hope chest at the end of the bed and quilt rack and we still had plenty of room in there.  In the kids room, we had 2 cribs, dresser and hutch, piles of toys and all that baby stuff and they were squished.  So today our mission was to clean all the carpets and move the bedrooms around.  Each bedroom has double closets however, the one in the big bedroom is, well, bigger.  However, Kristopher never had a place for his work clothes.  He didn't want them taking up space in the dresser and we really didn't have the room in the dresser for them so most of the time they are stacked next to the closet door.  In the smaller room, there are these deep shelves tucked in the corner of the closet which will work perfect for his work clothes.  As of right now, the bedroom carpets have been cleaned and are dry, the furniture is all moved in our rooms and put back together.  Rylee woke a little bit ago mad because she was hot so right now, we're all taking a break.  Then Kris and I will move the living room furniture over to the entry and shampoo that carpet.  In the morning we will move the furniture back, return the shampooer, go to church and come home to put away the rest of the mess.  We still have to switch the closets over, move the kids names (we painted the letters of their names and hung them over their closets) to their room, go through some junk we boxed up, and make sure that we have a home for everything that we absolutely need.  Our "new" smaller room is definitely smaller.  All that made the move was the big bed, dresser and 1 end table (Kris made that one and has another one to build yet, our other 2 are going to Thrift shop).  The Hope chest is the only piece of furniture we are not quite sure where that will go yet.  The computer desk has been moved back out to kitchen/dining room area (it's a big room, so there is plenty of room!) while the bookshelf is staying in the big bedroom to house the kids books and a few of ours.  The kids toys will be more organized in their "new" room because there are shelves across the bottom of the closet we used to house our shoes that will now house their toys.  We had piles and piles and piles of clothes that simply didn't have a place to go so I went through those today.  I boxed up the clothes that are too big or small or out of season, made a pile of those that need to hung up (since there is more room for that now) and a boxed up the clothes that are too small.  I also organized their drawers before putting them back in the dresser.  Their "new" room is an ivory color and we still have to put trim up in there.  That's been on the to-do list for quite a while.  Eventually we'll get around to it.  Our "new" room is a color called "dipped in honey" which is a brighter yellow that we painted (it used to be blaze orange with the ABCs stenciled as a boarder) right before I got pregnant with Troy in hopes of having a baby one day.  Kris's mom made us a quilt for our wedding of yellows and blues since those were our wedding colors so the color works with our linens.  Right now, their room needs some tidying but all in all it's a nice set up.  Another baby will easily fit in there now.  Troy also got moved out of his crib and back into his big boy race car bed.  He was excited about that and even napped in there late this afternoon.  I didn't get any before shots of the rooms but I will definitely take some after photos tomorrow. I love productive days like this.  And it feels good to get rid of junk that we didn't need in the first place.