In which I weed toys and am mad disappointed.

My kid has a lot of toys. Not, like, totally outrageously too many or anything but too many for our smallish house and too many for the level of complete non organization that reigns around here. I’m reading some Montessori book in which happy bright non whiney kids frolic peacefully with well organized thoughtful toys in a bright clean environment. Yeah, not so much over here. Shit is everywhere and I am so very tired of everything being a total fucking mess. Obviously not tired enough to CLEAN regularly…

I’m finding it difficult to get rid of anything. I have created a pile of ‘baby toys’ that I think can be separated out and either gotten rid of or stored away for a possible second baby. I have one bag of toys that I no longer want or are too gross to be played with any longer.

Toy categories:
puzzles and matching games
books
building – building blocks, alaphabet blocks, legos, bristle blocks, tinker toys
people and animals
vehicles – large and small
beads and lacing cards
tools
stuffed animals
dolls – doll clothes
structures – house, airport, train table
art supplies, paint, stamps, paper, playdoh, glue, scissors, crayons, markers
outdoor toys – balls, garden toys, sand toys, hula hoop, swords, bat
play kitchen – play food, utensils, pots and pans
misc.

These foul Montessori kids apparently put all their toys away when done AND while playing keep all their toys in one small area on a special play mat. Cleraly I need to go to IKEA to buy containers and some small mats. IKEA is always the right answer. They have hotdogs!

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In other news… I am CRUSHED. Our short sale house that we have been waiting for for like 5 months is mostly likely NOT going to happen. I feel like, for all this time I have been in a holding pattern. We didn’t make any travel plans, I didn’t bother organizing because why bother when you are moving into a new space that will have to be organized all over again. I didn’t buy a serger.

My dream of chickens and a clothes line is DASHED I say.

I’m depressed. I really loved that house. It was big, had nice light, a big yard and had a shoe store and a comic book store in sight from the living room window.

The house is not absolutely 100% gone. But it is very unlikely the seller will be able to do what the bank wants in order for the short sale to go through. Which means it would then go to foreclosure like 6 months from now and all the foreclosure vultures would pounce on it and we wouldn’t stand a chance.

OMG. Back to square one. Looking for a house in this area is CRAP.

So anyway. now that my dreams in that area are dashed maybe we should say fuck it and go to Maui for 2 weeks.

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A kid with a pail at the beach is always cute. I’m so glad we went yesterday because it is pouring rain today.

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The Lion the Witch and the Carseat. ahahahahaha. Via Free Range Kids. All these alternate kids book names are so good!

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