Spring Cleaning in September

Yep, I'm spring cleaning! When we moved in here we shared a bedroom, then Keith needed a breathing machine due to his sleep apnea and the sound of it kept me awake all night. On top of that. if he woke up in the middle of the night, he liked to turn on Coast to Coast. Which was fine, except with the breathing machine being so loud he had to turn up the radio volume which, yep, you guessed it...woke me up!

Now, I'm not saying there weren't times I woke him up, because I did. If I had an asthma attack or coughing attack in the middle of the night he woke up too. So, for our sanity and the sake of our marriage I moved into the bedroom at the end of the hall. That way if he needed me - he has a heart condition - and he couldn't call he could bang on the wall and I would hear him. (It's right next to his room). This would be great except for one minor detail. The CATS!!

They have a little game called spring board and guess who's the springboard? They charge down the hall, jump up on me, turn around, spring back off and charge back the other way. Of course, this wakes me up. It's such a joy to wake up at 3 a.m. with a couple cats springing off you. So, I decided this is not working for me!

We have another bedroom across from the the main bathroom we were using for a library. I spent a couple days taking books, videos, magazines, etc off shelves and moved two of the bookcases today and moved my bed into the other room. I still have a lot of moving to do, but that's enough for today. Now the cats can charge down the hall all they want, but they won't have me to kick around anymore!

Of course, my moving kept getting interrupted by trivial things....making lunch, cooking dinner, doing dishes....sigh... so now I am done for the day and will pick up where I left off tomorrow.

The big picture is I will move my bedroom into the library, the library into my old bedroom. Then I will move the wooden table (in the kitchen) into the middle of the new library to give us a place to read, stack books, write, etc...there is a half bath in that room which makes it really nice.

Then I will move the dining room table (that's in the small area off the kitchen) into the kitchen to give me more working area for cooking and baking. Whoops! I keep telling people I don't cook! Then I'll move the loveseat under the window, in that little area, and put the coffee table and a standing lamp there for a quiet reading area where the cats and I can look out into the backyard. My queen anne chairs will then be set around the living room. It should give us more space. I'll then clean up the area around my husband's chair (he stacks things around and on top of things) and give him a space to keep it all neatly.

Keith says my energy level exhausts him! He teases me that I am slowing down though, and I am. No one can do the same things at 59 that you can at 29, 39, or even 49, but hey, I don't know many 59 year old women who can move heavy bookcases from room to room by themselves, on top of all the other stuff I moved. I just do it a little slower these days.

So, that's what I did on my Saturday. What did you do on yours?