It must be Winter!

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I was downloading pictures from my camera today looking for fun stuff to blog about…and I discovered a whole lotta pictures of the kids and Bryce and I in our jammies lounging around the house! Nothing else. Just laying on the couch in jammies watching movies. That’s all! I was pleased and disgusted all at the same time. January is almost over and we have done nothing noteworthy? The more I think about it, that’s not necessarily the case…we just haven’t done much “photoworthy” but we have been busy, busy, busy. Bryce’s workload at the lab has picked up considerably over the past three or four weeks (everyone together now…”AMEN!”) and he has been putting in long hours doing all the work himself since we had to let our employee go in November. This leaves me and the kids home alot, which has been fine since my resolution of 2009 was to continue simplifying things and ridding my house of “stuff.” What I know about myself is that I really like things “just so.” I want my spaces tidy and organized, and keeping them this way greatly increases my sanity level! We have been in our house for six and a half years now, and I have learned that my obsessive organization has turned to more of an “out of sight-out of mind” mentality. I am well aware that I have become that person who’s house looks pretty nice and clean when anyone stops by for a quick visit, but if they stay long enough they are bound to open a closet or cupboard, look behind the couch or under a bed, peer into a dark corner or drawer…and I am busted! So, I have spent the majority of this new year sitting with a garbage bag and recycle bin, sorting through piles and closets and cupboards. I am making a huge dent in the junk stuff and paper piles around here and it feels good!

Another thing we have been working toward this year is putting the girls in the same room for a while. They got matching comforters from my mom this Christmas and Lexi happily proclaimed “We can get bunk beds and I will sleep on the top and Eliza will sleep on the bottom…and we will be SISTERS!!!” It was SO cute, and got me really motivated to put them together while they are excited about it. We are testing it out for the next few weeks while our good friends Justin, Jen and Maisie will be staying with us. The majority of Lexi’s clothes and things have been moved into Eliza’s room to make some space for our houseguests. So far, Eliza is still a little too excited about her “sleepovers” to go to sleep at night, and Lexi has been crashing in our bed until Lize is asleep. It is sweet to watch the subtle changes in their relationship over the past few days, just playing together in their shared space. I hope this is a good thing for them. 

I guess that explains all the pictures of movie nights in our jammies…after our long days going, going, going…we all look forward to a little together time in the evening!

 

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