After my moaning and groaning on the blog yesterday, Brady and I decided to make an attempt to get the desk out of our room. As I said yesterday, Brady isn’t exactly capable of heaving a solid wood desk down our stairs anymore. But I figured *shrug* maybe I could? Not on my own, obviously. But rather than him doing all the heavy lifting and me more so spotting and balancing for him, we traded spots.
And guys. We GOT it!!!!! We took the drawers out, and evvvvver so slowly walked it down our three flights of stairs into our spare room. And then, of course, the thing wouldn’t fit through the door, so we had to take the desktop and the door off. Ah well. We’ll know that for next time, haha! Dekker was eager to help where he could.
We worked SO hard yesterday, and were completely bushed, so we ended the day with a HUGE treat for our family – a movie night!!
Our kids have virtually no screen time. Please don’t get me wrong, it is NOT some bug official stance against tv! Not at all! We just cut it out for a time and everyone did better than we thought, so we never really reopened that door! I carry ZERO judgement for families who watch more tv than we do!
That being said, Brady made several batches of popcorn and we hacked up some apples, and everyone sat happily and watched Encanto. Our beautiful kids were probably most excited that Brady and I were there, since we weren’t there the first they watched it this summer with grandma and auntie. Every time something funny would happen, they would look at us for our reactions. Wavy would chuckle and say “You LOVE that.”
After a HUGE day yesterday, you’d think we’d rest today. But you would be wrong. In fact, we figured that if we could move a solid wood desk down three flights of stairs, we could probably move a couple dressers around, just up and down one flight of stairs.
And we were right! We gave the girls our purple dresser that is solid and cute and a little bit narrower than their previous dresser…
And we took their bigger Ikea dresser up to our room!
In this case, everybody won!
You can see we do still have another purple dresser up there. Hopefully not for long! We have to clean it out, but if someone is in the market for a nice sturdy wooden long dresser (six drawers) painted purple and grey, you know who to call!
Nothing is perfect yet. Everything is still pretty messy. But things are getting so beautifully organized, and I am feeling the weight lift off of my body and brain and we get things to their better suited homes.
I think I’ve done all I can do for the moment! I will give myself a little rest and then it’s time to keep going! I hope the bulk of the list of craziness is wiped off before snow flies, but at least for now – for our first weekend all home from the lake – we have been productive and feeling good!
I’d like to end todays post by giving our kids a HUGE attaboy! They played lego and built forts ALL MORNING with virtually NO fighting or need to intervene. They did incredibly well while Brady and I were bustling around, working hard and not taking too many moments of pause. These kids are absolute rockstars!