Progress!

I'm feeling good about this challenge, so far!  Interestingly, some of the events that have been taking place around our home have lent themselves quite nicely to getting things crossed off my list.  There have been other things that, as I wrote them down, seemed so ridiculously silly to be including that I thought, "Hm, it REALLY won't be that hard, why do I keep putting it off?" 

For example, G was playing in his room the other day, and I looked at the game of Risk that we picked up at a thrift store two years ago that somehow ended up in one of his shelves in his room and that I have continually examined, thinking, "You know, that really should go with the rest of the games downstairs."  But to actually PICK IT UP (note: nothing of consequence has been on TOP of the game, so as to make it even remotely strenuous of a chore to TAKE IT OUT OF THE SHELF) has eluded me for some reason.  So, as I was rocking in the chair in his room (or gliding; it IS a glider, after all), I suddenly got angry at myself for staring at the game again, doing nothing, and decided to just move it once and for all.

5 seconds later, the game was in its rightful place.

Two years, and 5 seconds later.

Honestly.

Then I went back up, and with all of his toys already out of bins (and getting thrown out of bins), I started reorganizing them.  I consolidated his Tinker Toys from two tins to just one, found places for the other miscellaneous items floating around the shelves, and have TWO cubes in his shelf that are open.  TWO.  I just need to take the basket o' books, tuck them in one cube, get his chair from the living room to his room, and, voila, reading corner is done.

I just hope I don't take another 20 days to move that chair.

Then there was going through his clothes.  We were packing for a quick trip to the grandparents', and we actually started packing the night before instead of the morning of, so I pulled out the bins with clothes and went through them.  Voila!  Clothes have now been sorted, and all that's left are things that fit (or will once I get his two little belts made, since my child has no waistline or bum to help hold his pants up).

Sadly, I can't cross either of those things completely off my list, since I now need to put the too-small clothes in a bin in the attic, but at least I'm feeling like I'm making progress!  And the play kitchen is fixed, and all the little dishes are getting through the dishwasher in segments (as a new load is put in, I take some dishes and add them to the load).  Again, not something I can cross off, but it's getting there!

It feels so good to be getting things accomplished instead of having things sit there on lists in my mind.  So, I guess if I use the cross-off feature Diana used, my items would look like this:

* Clean the toys and dishes for the play kitchen and put in a basket/bin for better containment and access. Reattach back leg and front door to the kitchen.
*Clean out the sippy cup drawer and take defunct ones to DI (or just toss them if they're missing
parts)
*Create G's reading corner in his room (move chair, organize books).Reorganize the toy/diaper/book shelving in G's room (find a place for the one Risk game taking
space). If needed, get extra drawers to use in the shelf.
*Organize G's clothes; put all smaller clothes in storage.
*Reorganize music corner and take music back to rightful owner. Includes sleeving all printed
music and putting in binders.
*Reorganize the bins of fabric and projects. Finish any projects that don't require much effort (like fixing a seam, etc.).  [Addendum: start projects that are smallish in scale. {Lame addendum, since it doesn't necessarily lend itself to cleaning, per se, but at least I'm feeling like I just need to get projects going instead of having this lovely fabric sit there staring at me!}][Also, the sentence about finishing projects is purposefully not all cross out because I've started with them all, but still have a few left.]

Hurray for progress!