Spring Break Blues

We started off our Spring Break by cleaning the garage out. It took all day Saturday, but it is done. I do have three boxes of stuff to go through, but the majority of the mess is gone. I can now open up the van door, step out and walk. I am no longer almost killing myself on the stuff in the garage. My kids found some treasures there. Some prize stuffed animals, prize drawings, and toys. They did not know what they were getting into this week.

My children were in a state of shock this morning. I told them that there was no computer games until we cleaned up the house. They were wanting to revolt right then and there. I manged to bribe the "indians" with the possibility of playing the DS. They were thrilled because I had "found" it. It has been "lost" for quite a while now.

The kids started to help me clean up the loft. We were putting the books back up on the shelves and putting trash in the trash bags. You would have thought that they had found gold. They were finding lots of different things; toys, laptops, special books, etc.. They did not like it when I said, "See what you might find when you clean up your stuff. Don't blame me anymore for "losing" your junk."

They are going to be shocked again when they learn that tomorrow is filled with the same sort of schedule. We will b working on the mountain of laundry. Wednesday is the fun day. They get to play at grandma's house. We have to do our taxes that evening. But Thursday will be more of the same, cleaning and putting stuff away.