Wednesday, Christmas is down!

      So believe it or not, I have actually downsized Christmas by about three bins so I am pretty proud of myself.  I just packed everything much more carefully and then I am taking some things to good will.  The front room is not put back together or cleaned, as I didn't finish until after dark  and I wanted more light through the window to see dust and dog hair.

     I worked very hard getting everything down and put away. Now I have to get these things into the garage and have  my son in law or the missionaries put them up on the high shelves.  I still have a pile of Valentines linens to iron as I took them out of storage and they are very wrinkled,but I ran out of energy.

     I deep cleaned both bathrooms and the master bedroom and guestroom. I also cleaned and dusted the dining room.  As I was cutting back my plants I pulled all of them off the shelves to clean the shelves and realized that one of my larger plants had an ant colony in it!  I don't know how that happened , but it was positively swarming with ants.  I quickly took it outside and there it will stay.  They will freeze out as they were the smaller sugar ants.  I have never had that happen before.  I am still creeped out by it.

    I put up the valentine things as the bin was on the same shelf with some of the Christmas.  Taking down Christmas is sad ,so this made it a little more cheery.

I put out my mom's 5 angels for Valentines day. She bought one of these for each of us kids.  You see the twins, my younger sister and the two younger boys.  They are made by Llardo?  I cherish these. I am honestly looking at several of the things I have of mom's and getting ready to sell them or give them away.  Just too much stuff.  One of my goals is to sell stuff on Facebook marketplace. I have a huge pile of things on the washer and dryer in the laundry room.  I hope to get them listed tomorrow.

We have tons of candy canes left from the tree, I used to take these down to the studio every year, but I guess I will figure out some other way besides eating them. Look at the rain on the window.  It has rained all day here.

Today (Wednesday) I have to get some sewing done.  I took quite a bit of sewing in on Tuesday, plus what was already there. I sewed so hard on Monday, I decided to take Tuesday off to get Christmas down.

I have a list for today to complete:

1. get garage organized so Christmas can go out there

2. clean up the garage cat box area

3. list things on Facebook market place

4. get sewing quota done

5. deep clean front room

6. vacuum all floors

7. mop all floors

8. finish cleaning kitchen

Dinner was good.  I really like corned beef and the cabbage was so good.  We have enough for lunch and dinner today. The sale adds come out today, so I still need to check to see if there is anything worth buying. I will go  out later to get a few groceries.  I am not sure if son in law is home form Olympia yet and we may end up with the kids while daughter teaches.

It will be so nice to get everything put away and the house really cleaned. The house seems so big now that all the decorations are down.  Does your house seem larger when you take done Christmas?

Do any of you put out Valentines things?  I just love the cheer as it is very dark and dreary here in the winter. 

Have a great and productive day staying positive while you are in the negative?

Kim