Quarantine Day 45: Spring Cleaning

Today was another lazy morning. By the time JP and I had rolled out of bed and headed downstairs the girls had been up watching tv for several hours. We had a nice breakfast together and then Juliet went off and played on her own and Naomi and Dad played several board games.

After games we did a little spring cleaning. Naomi cleaned up her room and vacuumed it then went and played some nintendo. Juliet took a tub, and watched a movie while doing so. I cleaned out Juliet's closet organizing her dresses & clothes that she will grow into someday soon. JP hung up a book shelf, measuring chart and posters on Juliet's walls. The reasoning for all this cleaning out of Juliet's room was to get to the real project: clean up and organize the attic. This has been something I've wanted to do for a while, but for some reason other things seemed to take priority. I'm hoping that we can begin to finish the little attic space over the garage during our time at home. But first I had to get all the stuff out of it! So the clothes we stored in there for Juliet, now reside in her closet. All of the holiday decorations, camping gear, & luggage are now nicely tucked away in one area so that the space we want to finish is empty! This took all day to do. By the time I was done it was dinner time!! So Juliet got out of the tub to see her new room and then we went and made dinner.

Juliet was so tired after dinner that she went upstairs at 6:30 and put herself to bed. Naomi and Dad stayed up a bit longer playing games while I had an art date with one of my girlfriends. Naomi went to bed nicely after games and reading books. JP and I stayed up way to late for a school night puttering around the house, sewing masks & breaking the sewing needle, playing video games, and doing some work to get ready for the week.

All the holiday stuff is stored in the back part of the attic now!

Cleared out attic! Time to build my Art Studio!!

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