Sabotaged
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Homemaking on Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:45 PM
I had such high hopes for using the coming week to de-clutter.
Our weekend house-guests will be gone. My messiest kid will be away with cousins. I was going to get ahead of him for once and clean lunch boxes & uniforms and put them in storage.
The boxes of winter clothes were going to make their solemn journey from their interim resting place in the linen closet to their summer home in the top shelf of the boys’ wardrobe.
The hanging shoe bags I use to hold pens, crayons, paint brushes and other stationery supplies were going to be sorted properly after the final weeks of school mayhem. I was going to show the art supply closet who’s boss.
And many other such notions. Oh, the delight that was to be ours all summer long as the kids happily went about their summer projects knowing precisely where to find the scissors and paints and I basked in the cool refreshment of an organized home.
But then the King Arthur Flour Catalogue arrived. Followed the next day by the Williams-Sonoma catalogue, which has the cutest little molds for hand-pies. And this yummy-looking recipe. And now the motivation to organize has given way completely to the need to bake fruit pies.
I suppose I’ll still do some of those things; they have to be done. But the desire? Gone.
And Arwen, My Dear, you are not helping! (You, either, Danielle!)
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