...I thought I'd put up the summer curtains. I have no idea why I get such a kick out of changing & rearranging our house. (I'm too lazy to look for a "before" picture of our dining room. Basically the curtains were orange, the chair was in the right hand corner and the table had all its leaves and was centered.)
Since we've been slowly re-painting the girls' room, I moved ALL their toys to the basement. But the toys crept up, until the first floor was Barbie World. They were in every room. All the shoeboxes in the house were confiscated for Barbie daybeds, along with most of my dish towels for bedding. (Wish I'd taken a picture of that.)
Then I cracked. I stayed up until 1 am one night last week going nuts putting Barbie World back into the basement, vacuuming, and trying desperately to regain a bit of the order I crave.
Truth is, I love when I can overlook my desire for order and serenity so that Barbie World can coexist with our family for periods of time. I think my tolerance for it has grown, and it makes me smile to see the space beneath the dining room table transformed into a Barbie Palace (though it looks remarkably like a refugee camp.) But I do reach the breaking point, as I did last week.
Since then, there has been so much game-playing--Candyland (I should post Alan's variations for this classic board game), Memory Match, Go Fish, Old Maid, and a new favorite, "Pictureka." The girls even pulled out Twister and took turns being the spinner and the contortionist. We've also done kid-sized puzzles (totally my speed. I have no patience. Puzzles with 1,000 pieces make my eyes glaze over just thinking about them. But we can whip up a 100 piece Disney Princess in no time flat.)
It's going to be a busy rest of the week. The girls are in RVR's day camp again, Alan is teaching at a jazz camp in D.C., and I've got a lot of meetings for work. We are looking forward to being together on Saturday--maybe playing a few games in the (hopefully) still-serene, summer version of our living room.
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