Dancing and Cleaning

Pinky loves to dance! Here's a video of her at a party we went to the other day. She was trying to line dance with everybody...



So all last week I purged my house! I went from room to room and threw away almost everything we owned that wasn't a piece of furniture. How liberating! It all started because Elle will be in public school this year, so I cleaned out the homeschool room. I ended up with something close to 20 bags of giveaway stuff! And more stuff that couldn't fit in bags! On Saturday, hubby and I loaded up both our SUV's FULL of crap and hauled it to Goodwill. And besides the giveaway, we had about the same amount of bags for the trash man! Our yard looked like a landfill before the garbage truck came last week! Our house is pretty much cleared out at this point, we still have a few big things that wouldn't fit in the car and the trash guy couldn't take.

So I cleared out the homeschool room, moved Pinky into it, cleaned out Elle's room, cleaned out my room, cleaned out the basement... I hate STUFF!
It's funny because I threw out ALL the toys we have! The kids cried and cried! The amount of toys I kept are so few, I can literally fit them all into ONE small box! The kids' rooms have nothing but a bed and a dresser. And guess what? They stay so CLEAN!!!!

Also the basement was FULL of toys... all gone now! The whole toy area has nothing in it but carpet and wall! Man, the way the kids carried on, you'd have thought I'd killed their best friend. But they haven't suffered one bit. They haven't been bored a single time! They've had just as much fun playing with the minuscule amount of toys I DID keep that you would never know they didn't have anything else.
I'll tell you one thing though, my house has never stayed cleaner!