Fifth Day Thursday Soup Day Friday

I didn't blog the Fifth Day, I'm sorry. All that nap skipping is catching up with me.

Thursday was the Fifth day, and I completely forgot to take pictures.

I worked on finishing up some toys and puzzles, sorting and making sure all the pieces were there and helping the children choose which to keep. Hollie and her son worked on the books in the Living Room, and all the little things that were NOT books that were crammed into the shelves. How does that happen? Hollie started by - you guessed it - taking down ALL the books.

I tried to tell her that The FlyLady had told me (well, not ME specifically, but people like me) NOT to take down all the books because it's too overwhelming. But Hollie is not overwhelmed and daunted by that, so she took them all down. She piled them up for me to go through, and I plucked a few to get rid of. We brought stray books down from upstairs, sorted out schooly books from fun books from Christian books from parenting books. We set schooly books aside for their own zone elsewhere. Hollie's son organized all the little kid books at their eye level, and bigger kid books nearby. Hollie "preorganized" all the other books back in. I like that term she used, "preorganized" ~ she left spaces and options so that, as we finish going through the house, we can work in things that were left out, or re-reorganize if what we did before doesn't make sense.

I forgot to take a picture at the end, but, since they're books lined up, they don't look a LOT different. I'll take a picture maybe on Monday when we wrap up the living room.

So what about Friday? We didn't work today. It was planned that we'd work 9-5, and we were both excited about what we could get done. But Hollie was sick and in pain all night, and had to unwillingly call it off. I did my best to encourage her to stay home and rest; I was disappointed not to keep working but would've been more upset to have her trying to work through pain! Sometimes you just have to listen to your body's signals. And I know her well enough already to know she's not a "drop everything at the first sign of not feeling well" slacker like me. :-)

So what did I do today?

I tried to catch the 'done' rooms back up to 100% -- I've found that, in keeping with my bad habits, I work until things are maybe 75% done. Like dishes washed, counters washed, but stopping short of drying dishes and putting them away. Or putting MOST things away but leaving the last few out. So I started at the door and worked my way around the kitchen and living room trying to make sure I'd at least caught up to how we'd left things.

And then, because my husband was also feeling not well (although with an unrelated ailment!) I made chicken noodle soup for dinner.

... and because the counters were clean enough to do it ...with homemade noodles!! Or dumplings, as Dale's family called them. But you can't fool me. They're noodles.

Then we watched the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and ate popcorn.
Then we sent the children to bed, and The Grand Lunar sent himself to bed.

I'll be sending myself, soon. It's been a long week.

Hopefully we'll be back on track with the Organizing on Monday, if Hollie is available. I'll keep you posted!