We’ve had a poky morning. I’m still sorting and sifting through stacks of stuff - we came home with our van literally full-to-bursting with things from my dad’s house, including a big bin of Legos, two of K’nex, two small chairs, and about six boxes of books. We were staring at the enormous mound in our living room on Saturday (I really should have taken a picture) and despairing, when I realized if we replaced the small, three-shelf kit bookcase in the playroom with a custom-built, seven-foot-tall one, we would create just about enough instant shelf space to take care of the new books.
So I spent Sunday decluttering and dusting, moving the things out of that corner, while PisecoDad made a trip to Lowe’s and came back with enough bits to build a bookcase 7 feet high and 3 1/2 feet wide. It’s big.
I couldn’t get myself to just cram it full of random books, so I’m now on my third day of sifting through books and homeschool materials to decide what goes where. I think it will be great - if I ever finish! I may even be inspired by those of you who post organizational helps, and try to post a picture and description of what went where. Maybe the public pressure of a blog goal will get me to finish this job before, say, Christmas?
JediBoy has been poky along with me. Sometimes he helps, sometimes he plays. He looked through an issue of Hidden Pictures Playground, played with pattern blocks, asked to “do” a folder full of old flashcards from when I worked at the Unit (three-part sequence, signs, emotions, sorting by category, shapes), and played his new Ratatouille Leapster game. Then he found a small bin of miscellaneous objects - I’m sure they were together for some purpose originally: a brown shoelace, a thimble, scraps of fleece, a foam disc, a round eraser, a paper clip, rubber band, several toothpicks, a Lego wheel, pom-poms, buttons, string. He put these together to make some “inventions” while I worked.
I like the thimble in the foam disc on toothpick legs.
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