Sorry for the morose twist, folks. I normally try to keep emotional, personal issues to myself, unless they’re happy. However, I wanted to post my mother-in-law’s obituary to my blog for a couple of reasons. First, it served as notice to all who read my blog that I wouldn’t be posting for a few days and the reason why. Second, for the people I’ve had to tell about this sad event, it’s been much easier for me to say “I don’t really want to talk about it right now; go here for more information.”
Thank you for all of your kind words of caring and condolences. It’s nice to know that I have such a supportive cyberfamily out there. Every new comment brings a sniff and a few tears. Fortunately (or is it unfortunately?), the world doesn’t come to a standstill for events like this one. The speed of life being what it is, I’m content to just be sucked right along with it.
There’s no shortage of things to be done in my household this month. I’m turning 30 on the 23rd (wow, really?!?) and we’re having people over, so I have a huge honey do list. Except most of them are for me! I cleared out the dining room Monday to make room so that I can paint a ton of trim. We ran out to Home Depot yesterday and bought some more paintbrushes and another canvas drop cloth. I’m not sure where the other one went, but we think it’s in the basement and I’m not wandering into the spider zone to retrieve it, knowing that I’ll have to clean it before I can use it. No time for that! So, last night I spread the drop cloth on the dining room floor and brought in all of the trim, plus the primer and paint. Let’s see, I have to paint crown moulding for the main bathroom, crown moulding, baseboard, door and window trim for the reading room and maybe a window sill for the master bedroom, if I have time.
I’ve already started to clean the house. FLYing be darned, I just don’t have time to work through that system right now, I’m in emergency mode! I normally wouldn’t be nearly as concerned, but we have friends visiting who have never seen the house (yes, we’ve been here for nearly 4 years, but they have had two children during that time, so they’re excused 🙂 ). That means I have to make EVERY room presentable, if at all possible. Hmmm… methinks Terry’s boat will have to go back under the spare bed for a little while. Which means I’ll have no excuse to not pick up the rest of the craft room. And the computer room will need to be picked up a bit, as well, despite needing to make room to setup my mom’s new computer which just arrived yesterday from Dell – a week or more ahead of schedule. And our bedroom – UGH. I don’t even want to think about that right now. Talk about the universal dumping ground. I think I may take the FlyLady approach of 15 minutes intervals in that room so I don’t get completely overwhelmed.
Yes, well, one step at a time. And lots to keep my mind occupied so it doesn’t have so much free time to wander into darker territories, eh? 15 days left to get ready! My parents arrive on the evening of the 20th. Okay now, less blogging and more painting!
Best of luck with your Emergency Mode Cleaning! Remember, they’re coming to see you, though, and not critique your housekeeping skills. 🙂