The BIG Move

No, I'm not moving to a new house....

We live in an older home, it was built in the late 1940's.  It has a tiny tiny tiny kitchen, a large-ish living room, a small rec room in the basement, 2 bedrooms on the main floor and 2 bedrooms upstairs.  Currently, my son occupies one bedroom on the main floor and we occupy the other.  The 2 upstairs bedrooms are used for storage (as are the stairs that lead up to them.......)   One contains my great grandma's dining room set (oddly enough, we don't have a dining room, we have around "kitchen" table in the corner of our living room....) along with all of my sewing and craft supplies.  The other contains a futon, my antique makeup vanity, an old TV and all of the stuff you accumulate from being on this earth for 31 (35 for my husband) years.

Lately, I have been lusting for my sons room...I want it to be mine.  I have a desk in the living room that I use to put on my makeup (our bathroom is really tiny too), I have a couple sewing machines and a serger, I have a lot of clothes, I basically want it to be my dressing room/office/craft room.  I have broached the idea of giving him his very own "man cave" upstairs and he is all for it.  My husband is kind of worried because he does have a tendency to get out of bed and sleep walk, but I think he will be ok. I mean, he is 8?

The only thing standing in my way is.....all of the stuff on the steps and in the 2 bedrooms.  I have FINALLY decided that I am going to start to tackle the mess.  I am throwing away almost everything, I just need hubs to back up his pick-up truck below a window so I can start chucking!  The biggest hurdle is the steps.  They are closed off from the world by a door that is in my living room. So anytime I clean and don't actually feel like taking something to it's "home" (or someone is coming over for a short noticed visit), it goes on the steps, the door closes and it is never heard from or seen again.  I feel like a hoarder when I open that door.

I am trying to motivate myself by picturing the cluttered desk, my antique vanity, my craft supplies, all in a nice room that is allllllll mine.  I even go to TJ Maxx and look online at amazon and etsy at all of the cute organizing things I could get.  The only thing I'm missing is time!

Also, want to give a quick update on the dishwasher repair.  I FINALLY got a hold of someone at Service Quick, the company contracted by Samsung ( I will have a separate post on this company after I see how the service call goes).  They are sending someone out on Friday 5/16 between 1 and 5.  The repairman (or woman) will call 30 minutes prior to coming....what a vague window.  I am to the point where I do not care if they come at midnight!!  I just want my darn dishwasher to work.  My cuticles look ragged and my hands are dry constantly from having to wash dishes by hand.

I'll let you know how it goes with the clean out and the dishwasher repair.

Good Night Loves!