It's beginning to look a lot like...September???

There's something about the start of school that makes me want to get the house cleaned and organized. In the past I have had one child's room and closet to go through and toss the old, and find places for the new things. Now there are three. I know thing 1 and 2 don't have school yet, but I still feel the need to organize.

The clean drive was ignited last week after a shopping trip to Wal-Mart. I found the perfect "ammonia remover" powder to sprinkle in the cat's litter box so it can stop stinking up my bathroom. The plan completely backfired and we came downstairs the next morning to a mountain of poop on the girl's freshly laundered clothes and a huge pee stain on the couch. The cat PEED on or dry-clean only couch. I'm sure you are wondering why in the world we have a dry-clean only couch with 3 children. Easy answer. Couch was purchased BG. (BG in our house refers to "before the girls"). We got the house that is too small, the couch that is too hard to clean and a multitude of other idiotic choices before we knew they would grace our lives.

So we found the couch we want...leather. We have a leather recliner and the thing looks brand new every time you condition it. Best choice for kids. If you are looking for a sofa, chair, car, anything and you plan on having kids....spent the extra money on the leather. Barf, breast milk and blood all wipe up nicely! Couch is back-ordered until end of month so we have a little time to think about what it will look like in the room. This has spurred craziness in Casa de Insanity.
We have decided to paint three rooms...and have already started on one. Most of the walls to paint are the original builder's white complete with kiddos fingerprints, cat barf, and crayon. What a shame to cover all that history up. *sigh*

Now my house is a disaster as we try to clean up and move things around to paint and then make another mess painting, only to clean that up, etc etc. The good thing is when you paint a room you have to move things around and vacuum, clean floors, etc. And painting (to me) is very calming. That will be awesome. But do you know how impossible it is to paint with little people around? I can do 2 hours a time during naps. That's it. I don't think we will be done in time for school to start. So I will have to settle for being organized somewhere in the vicinity of 2010...