Time On My Hands

With the gang at the beach, I had the house to myself!!!  This has to be a every mother's dream at some point in her life.  It is seriously one of my favorite things.  It usually comes in 2 hour increments on Saturday mornings when David takes the kids to the gym.  Having a completely clean house for even 10 minutes is so gratifying. 

Thanks to my amazing hubby, an entire weekend to myself happens a couple times a year.  My To Do list is always 10,000 projects long of things I want to get done, but never have enough time (or energy) to accomplish them when I'm dealing with the day to day demands of little children.  I was so excited and so ready for this weekend.  The biggest challenge is figuring out where to start.  

After work on Thursday I got my hair cut, then arrived home to a quiet, empty house.  I think I squealed with delight, then headed straight for the kid's rooms.  What a perfect time to wash their sheets!  This led to cleaning out all the random toys, socks and books from under their beds, which lead to rearranging and reorganizing all the toys and books in the entire house. 

By the time I was finished our bookcases looked like this:

Isn't it beautiful?!  It made me happy to look at it all weekend. 

After my massive book and toy project I decided to paint our master bathroom.  It was the last room standing in terms of rooms to be painted in the house.  I wasn't quite sure I wanted to tackle this project as there were still 9,999 other things I wanted to do but I decided I should just get it done, and I did.  And it felt really good to get it done. 

For the record, I did have some fun too.  I met up with a friend and her baby in North Seattle, went to a bar with another friend on Saturday night (I can not remember the last time I was at a bar on a Saturday night!) and hiked up Poo Poo Point with yet another friend on Sunday morning.  It was wonderful!

And it was really lovely to have the gang back on Sunday.  While I enjoyed every minute I had to myself, I missed all the chaos and was so happy to have them back.  For all the naysayers who said my bookshelves would be in disarray after 5 minutes, they still look pretty darn good one week later!