Thus Endeth the Second Day

Phew, working 9-6 makes for a long day!

Sorry I couldn't post sooner; In addition to working until nearly six, tonight was also my date out with Tobi-Wan, and then after getting kids to bed I had a little putting away and tidying up to do. So I'll try to make this quick.

Organizing Day Two -- back up two posts if you're not up to speed with us here, LOL.

Day Two Pix:

please note that the LAST pic somehow showed up first on the page, but after that they're in order top to bottom ... so think of the first pic as a preview, LOL, and then the before pix.
http://www.andfam.net/kim/OrgoDay2/OrgoDay2.html

We really finished the *kitchen* today, but still have the dining room / craft areas to do tomorrow ~ the schooly/crafty cupboards intimidate me, but it will be nice to have them done and done well.

We worked all day. We agreed to take a lunch break, but they worked while they ate. I told them that for lunch they were no longer my Organizing Helpers but my guests, but apparently they really wanted to keep working... so I finished my yogurt smoothie quick and went back to work as much as I could.

My children were a little more tired and squirrelly today, but we were still able to keep working, sorting, cleaning -- I even pitched some of my beloved spices!

By the end of the day everything (!) in the kitchen proper (except cleaning OUT the oven, which I was going to do tonight but will have to do tomorrow night) is done. Hollie said she's done houses where it's taken 4-5 days, so us finishing a pretty big kitchen in 2 days wasn't bad at all. You know me, I was afraid my kitchen was the worst evah. But apparently not. We had a bag and a half of trash, and a BIG box for good will, plus continued to fill the many boxes of things that go elsewhere.

The method was really the same as yesterday; take everything out of a zone, weed through it for different room stuff, declutter and toss stuff, and then she put it all back in. And Hollie's son put shelf paper on many of the shelves and that made them look much nicer. One very nice thing about this method was, at the end of the day, when we were wrapping it up, we just stacked all the "elsewhere" boxes up in the guest room and the kitchen was clean, and those boxes are just waiting quietly for us in the morning.

Tomorrow we're starting at 9 again but only going until 2, I think.

I need to fold laundry, but instead I'm going to bed, I can't believe it's already after 11 and it's been a very long day.

You'll be proud to hear that I did not check my email ONCE during that 9-6 window, not even a peek. And I didn't even die not checking! ;-)