Since it was a three day weekend, we decided to make the most of it and waste (i call it wasting–there was better things I could have done) Saturday cleaning our basement. Yes, I know it was probably something I should have done before the baby–but we tried in one corner of the basement and ran into the issue–I was pregnant and couldn’t move anything and couldn’t stand for long and was basically not in the mood to organize the basement. But, alas, the time had come to put stuff in its rightful place finally. I invited (bribed by breakfast) my parents to watch Gabe for a couple hours (which turned into 6). We started about 10 a.m., only taking a break for lunch. I actually ran upstairs a few times to calm Gabe down, but nothing more than 10 minutes. I remember growing up in our basement, just boxes and boxes of stuff. Nowadays, I think its much easier with the bins. The people who have stock on bins, must be raking in the dough. It seems like we never have enough bins. Especially when my sister is having me store all the baby clothes she is letting me borrow. The cool thing about our basement is that the prior owners built shelves on the sides of the basement which are perfect size for storing bins. After all our hard work, our bins are now in order too (i.e. one shelf is camping gear, another clothes, another gift wrapping stuff–including good size boxes to wrap gifts in. We actually have more room now that we organized. Now all we have left is to go through our books and movies. I think I have about a hundred books–by just perusing over some yesterday, i put together 6 to get rid of (give to Goodwill or save for a rummage sale). That is actually good for me–I do not like to part with books. I am hoping by next weekend to be done with that because I have a new job for us to do before Gabe starts crawling—baby-proofing the house. We don’t have a ton of time left before he starts crawling so might as well when we have a weekend free!

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