Resurfacing

I am so pwoud of myself. I am exhausted to the bone, but my god, my kitchen has been decluttered and reorganised. There isn't a single drawer which hasn't been touched. Not a cupboard that's been spared. I'm especially thrilled with the medicine cabinet which now has FOUR spanking new containers labelled 'Natural remedies/Herbal', 'Non-natural medication', 'Equipment' and 'Cosmetics'. I say cosmetics, but it really is five bottles of nail polish remover. Which is the exact number of times my mother has stayed with us.

I also rescued a table from Oisin's room. After years of telling myself i'll restore it it is beyond restoration. So i painted to white and then painted a picture on it of a tree with a blackbird. If i had bought it in a shop it would have cost us £50. Instead it's free and i've recycle furniture. I feel so damn virtuous.

In addition to all this, i also got nine new fileboxes and sorted out all the banking correpondence. Oh it feels good. The next thing i tackle is the living room. Each corner will not be spared. I have also decluttered the shed, planted new beds, got the trees done, sorted the garbage over and over and over again, grown my own sprouts, repotted four plants, got new plants for the door, got new doormats for the front and backdoor, repainted the mankier areas of kitchen and front hall and done five loads of laundry. It's amazing.

And all this time Ghin has stoically been beside me doing his own thing. As i declutter one side of the room, he reclutters another. I spent about a quarter of my time undoing the mess he does. But it's cool. After days of wondering what was wrong with him, it turns out that he's teething again big time. He has between five to eight teeth coming out. Premolars and molars. I did wonder what it was keeping him in such a mood.

The weather has been amazing. But i'm soooooo tired with all that cleaning. My brain has become stodge. There's a definite cleaning mode though. You just have to surrender to it, just enter it and give yourself entirely. That's the only way to clean properly, instead of constantly going, when is this going to be over??? I still have stuff to do though. The working corner still needs tweaking a bit and i've realised that the new set up in the dining means that Ghin would have lost the area he played on quite a lot. I have a weighing machine to get rid of. Kitchen scales i should say. If any one wants a second hand set of kitcehn scales plase point them in my direction. They're circa 1960. V fash. I wonder what the reaction of the boys is going to be. They'll be back tonight after their adventure to Lucca.