Purge Fest

Last week, when JC was sick and I was taking down Christmas decorations, we decided to do some major rearranging in our house. I'd had a thought for a while that if we could just get another little sitting area in our dining room, our lives would be so much more functional. Since things were a mess anyway, and we really wanted the boys to stay quiet while JC was resting last week, we decided to move our loveseat from the living room into our dining room, which required us rotating the dining room table 90 degrees and moving it into one side of the room. We actually like the way the dining room table looks, and there was already a TV set up on top of our computer desk, so we were able to watch football in comfort and the boys were entertained by a movie in the living room. By removing the loveseat from our living room, we were able to totally rearrange the living room furniture, and we decided to move our computer desk into a corner of the living room. That left us with nothing for the TV to sit on in the dining room, so yesterday we were off to by a TV stand (and I LOVE the one that we purchased) and had already been planning to buy a new loveseat so that will be delivered in February. In the process of moving the computer desk and other various pieces of furniture, we've doing some MAJOR purging of junk that we no longer want/need. We even decided last night to defrost the basement freezer so that everything was getting a fresh start. Of course, the downside is that with not being able to do everything in one day, we've been living in chaos for a week, and I've also realized today that I'm not completely happy with how everything is currently arranged, so there is more unloading of shelves, moving furniture, and reloading the shelves happening today. Our goal is to have things at least somewhat arranged enough to watch the Steelers game at 4:30. Go Steelers!