Exhausted but Happy (34w5d)

We had a very, very productive day today.

That statement alone with its two "very"s should convey one very important fact-- my mom came over. Otherwise I would say "I had a productive day." ;)

We got the entire back porch cleaned out and-- get this-- I have a dedicated crafting room now!


It's dark now and I'm achy and tired and don't feel like painstakingly peeling myself off the couch to take a picture, but picture a room used entirely for storage, such that you almost can't walk around it-- I mean, literally, like a hoarder's house-- which is now cleared out and home to two small tables, a bookshelf, a craft cabinet, my sewing machine, and a few miscellaneous items in the corner (but not many!). We can finally put the heat on back there without having to worry about all the things leaned up against the floorboard heaters! I don't have to feel embarrassed turning the lights on in there at night to look for something because the neighbors could all see the mess through the windows!

We got rid of so, so much stuff... basically the last of the leftover accumulated things from FIL's apartment. Everything else, at this point, I think we'll be keeping, so all the important things and valuable things are still here.

I have to give a lot of credit to Husband-- he carted so, so much stuff up and down stairways over the course of about six hours, and he kept us fed and happy. And my mom is amazing with organizing and just plain getting things done. Me? I'm not good at either, so I sat and sorted things/threw away things that they handed to me.

There's still a bit of clutter around-- you can't rip apart a room and spread things out across three more rooms without causing a bit of the "a hurricane just blew through here" effect-- but we can get that under control tomorrow morning. We're both pretty tired by now, so not much else is going to happen tonight.

After this, we'll have the house pretty much under control! We've had some form of one or more "storage rooms" since we moved in, and it's been even worse since FIL died and we acquired all of his thing as well. Now we just have the laundry nook upstairs with a few manageable things in it (we had to move some stuff out of the office yesterday to make it a bit more hospitable for my aunt to stay over) and that's it! So exciting.