The nesting has begun.

Last week I was asked several times when my younger sister was moving out of our house. The plan was for this to take place on December 15^th, but she’s moving into a new construction apartment and they told her that she’d have to wait until after Christmas…and now they’re saying February.  Which is no good for me.  Let me explain why. 

We have two guest rooms in our house.  One is the room she’s been occupying for the last year and a half, and the other was our office/guest room which will be turned into the nursery.  I cannot wrap my head around tearing the room that will be the nursery apart until I know that I can regain complete access to the room my sister has been calling hers.  Let me show you why, this is her room and what it looks like all.the.time.

 

I have anxiety over this room.   Wouldn’t you.  It used to be this cute little room, that now needs a complete overhaul in my opinion. First, she removed the bed skirt on the bed like 6 months ago. I don’t know why and haven’t seen it since. Let’s just hope she didn’t lose it?  second, I recently kept finding her bedroom windows open. Its rainy, snowy, and we just cleaned out our garden beds so the backs of her curtains now contain a layer of dirt, and I don’t know how the hell you clean roman shades? Anyone?

I love her, but she has to go.

So since I have no control over her bedroom at this point and I’m biding my time, I cleaned and organized other areas of the house.  Over the weekend I completed reorganized/cleaned under the bathroom sinks, the linen closet, the laundry room closet, the front hall closet, the kitchen drawers….and I made a huge dent in organizing all the books that I’m going to sell since the bookshelves in the office will be moved to the basement. Oh and we took down and stored all the Christmas stuff and did all the laundry.  The one thing I didn’t get done was moping the kitchen floor, but I’m OK with that.

My poor husband is in for it if I keep going like this.  Next up, I’m picking out new carpet for the house and need to decide what kind of flooring I’ll put in the dining room/kitchen/family room….I’d love to do hardwood but I’m not sure that’s in the budget, we’ll see.