i know it is summer, soccer camp is over, we took a week off, blah blah blah. i don't know why, but we are still so crazy busy. i guess, no matter what is going on, there will always be a thousand things to do. right now we are trying to empty the storage area, which has had all of our "nonessentials" for over a year while we planned and postponed our move. unfortunately, the first round of bins were put in a back room and ignored for a few weeks. but, i just can't deal with knowing that there is a mess behind a door. i wish i could, but things like junk drawers and junk closets--or in this case, junk rooms--just drive me insane. (thanks mom). yesterday, since it was raining, i pulled out a pile of dress-up cloths, blankets of varying sizes--from a king feather bed to a doll blanket, and yet another bin of stuffed animals and piled all of it in my "office" (also a depository for all of the bags and paraphenalia that we use on a regular basis), and the kids just went to town. i added music and 4 hours later the kids were still going strong.

amazing what they can come up with. granted, most of their toys migrated into the room with them, so by that point, i had a clean "storage" room, but 4 (playroom, 2 bedrooms, my office) very very very cluttered and chaotic rooms. that is when i go looking for the broom and sweep it all into one large pile in one large room.

the project continues today. i dread going to the storage area and hauling another 5 huge bins, but i really would like to get this accomplished before ava's party. which is approaching fast. she is having a fairy party. we have all sorts of decorations, etc., but the one thing we really really need is mosquito netting, and you would think that this would not be hard to find in the adirondack park where i think there are 5000 varieties of biting insects. but it is. impossible. we are going to have to drive to plattsburgh (ugh) to go to the craft store to find something equivalent. and i also have to decide if i want to make the guests fairy wings (hangers and white stockings apparently accomplish this) or if i want to just go buy them. i promised that costumes would be provided. that was when i was feeling very motivated. and carter has said that he wants a blue party, a jumpy party, and a pirate party. i am lobbying for a repeat of the blue party. that was easy.