It is the
end of January, and I’m close enough “on track” to be satisfied. About 95% of Christmas is neatly packed
away. I didn’t ack as organized this
year; but considering (1) it’s very difficult to see what I’m doing and (2) I
had absolutely NO help this year, I’m very pleased with my progress.
The main “goal”
for January was to get the attic clean before taking Christmas up .. and that
got done! I did have hired help for half
a day with that, but oh so worth it. Not
only did she help me go through piles of random stuff that had been just shoved
up there, but she also took away all of the bagged trash as well as a lot of items
to be donated.
Once the
last of the Christmas stuff (meaning one last tree, and a few boxes that need
to be “in front”) is properly stowed away, I’ll be able to go in and out
easily, access all of the rest of the seasonal decorations, and even have a
cleared off wrapping station OK, I don’t
exactly *need* the wrapping station .. but who knows, I *might* want to wrap a
gift at some point! LOL!
As a last
minute decision, I changed out the dining room table. Several weeks ago I had put away the
Christmas china, and used my “good” china instead. Today I removed the festive gold tableecloth,
the gold chargers, and the fancy wine
goblets. I put all of the silver pieces
on a shelf (recently emptied by culling out books). I used
a pretty vintage tablecloth with a gray background. I put the dishes back, but instead of the
wine goblets I used some thumbprint water goblets. I bunched a lot of white and silver candles
in the center; and I will go back and put the silver S&Ps back on the
table. Ta DA! J
The only
thing I planned for February is Valentine decorating and getting a mini-vacation. I think I might succeed! J
