Oh dear sorry things aren't good with DH :( that puts a downer on things.
I have finally had a restful weekend after 2 incredibly full on weeks. Didn't feel very helpful though as I spent the last two days as a hormonal wreck.
Found out that even if I can control the GD without insulin etc (looking good so far) I will still be induced at 40 weeks. Which is good as it's a bit more predictable and induction is all I know anyway (both Caglets induced too). But scarily it means we have only SEVEN weeks
seven!!!
In other news we have been creeping up the housing list at a good rate and we've agreed that it will very soon be time to hire a skip. Really don't want to be doing that once Cagletini arrives, and when we do get offered a house the turnaround has to be super fast.
DH is off work today so despite feeling like absolute death we HAVE TO achieve stuff today. He is in agreement that this will be a better use of the day than him taking the Caglets out somewhere, much as I could use the peace and quiet!
I'm feeling a bit lost as to where to start - we've got to the point now, having made a lot of (very slow) progress already, that 'general' decluttering and sorting of Bags of Random Crap seems to be very slow and doesn't make much impact. So I have a vague plan, if DH agrees (I'm the only one awake so far as I couldn't sleep past 5... again
) - I think the main focus needs to be one (or possibly both) of these:
🎯Caglets' toys:
Virtually everything is stored in our pit of a bedroom, because there's no room anywhere else. Mostly in Ikea trays and big 'really useful boxes'. They're a mess though with unlidded boxes, gaps in the tray shelving etc so need to sort that with the Caglets helping somehow.
Also there are bags of toddler toys like duplo that we had bagged up to sell before I was pregnant. They are the only things we have that are worth keeping for Cagletini (never kept any baby clothes or anything as we weren't expecting DC3!
:o) and I think, much as I'd like to spend ages sterilising them etc before storage, the most important thing to do now is just to get them boxed up in the otherwise empty attic (along with the Christmas stuff which is taking up room in our cupboard). They are clean enough for now although I need to make sure all the water has drained from the Happyland people!
🎯Caglets' books:
Definitely one of the hoarding issues I haven't got on top of yet! I have had a huge charity shop/discount store weakness for years and although I am getting much more restrained these days it's left us with a huge amount of children's books, particularly since starting home ed gave me more excuses to buy loads of non fiction. But the fact is most of it isn't getting used. I've started to make my peace with the fact that HE isn't how I thought it'd be (lots of issues around the Caglets' SN particularly DD who needs assessing for learning difficulties), we are much less structured than I'd planned at the moment, and for example there are lots of older non-fiction books that neither of them are able to really use yet. There is no need to keep them at all - we use the library much more now too (as the house is less chaotic so I can risk borrowing books!) so I don't need to keep everything Just In Case anymore.
So the plan with that is (not that I've told DH yet) to gather up every single children's book in the house. They are all over the place in various shelving, boxes and random piles. It's impossible to declutter them without them all being together to compare, so for the first time ever I'm going Kondo
and will get them all out in the living room so we can assess exactly what there is and start making decisions as a family. Also it'll free up lots of storage buckets etc.
Will be keeping pretty much all the Usborne as they are DD's favourites, and there are some picture books that they want to keep for their baby sister, but I'd say pretty much everything else is up for possible exit. I just need to keep reminding myself that apart from a couple of out of print things, everything can easily be found for free in a library. We CAN do this.
Sorry for epic waffle!