Basket Case...

Three weeks after Christmas and there's still two laundry baskets full of random Christmas gifts that haven't found a home for.  It happens every year...you buy the random junk as fillers but then you realize...hmmm....waste of money?!  YEP! It's the coloring books, and little gadgets, and random things that have no set place.  They don't really belong anywhere, just hanging out in the baskets. 

So maybe I'm just a little lazy and haven't exactly rushed to put them away.  I did manage to get the Christmas decorations put away but that was mainly because my brother and sister-in-law came over for the weekend so there was the usual panic on Saturday morning to make the house look presentable.  I'd spent all last week just randomly moving decorations from box to box and chair to chair. If they didn't come over it would have been March before I got Todd to actually drag the boxes to the basement.  So thanks!!

Sidenote* He only moved them to the middle of the floor in the basement.  It still may take til March for him to actually put them away.

They showed up with their new (hideously ugly) baby Aivah!  OMG, she was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!  She cried and whined all weekend long.  She wouldn't leave the dog alone, Jeremy was rudely kicked out of his own bedroom, they ate us out of house and home.  Phew....thank goodness they are gone!!!!!!!

Ok, that was just to mess with my sister-in-law.  It was a great time, actually the first time her and I spent any amount of time together so that was really nice.  The baby is the best little girl I've ever been around. She just hangs out, and takes everything in. So calm and even with the dog trying to lick her face off she was golden.  She really does give most other babies a bad name.  Plus, added bonus, my brother-in-law is a tech GOD and fixed my modem plus hooked me up with some cool sites.

The one and only downside to having company over is the lack of laundry-doing.  I did manage to get a few loads done, but between having company and being gone for the holidays we have about three pieces of clean clothes left in the house.  So more laundry baskets...

Baskets of laundry, baskets of random gifts, baskets for towels, baskets for toys, baskets for dog stuff, baskets, baskets, everywhere!
The challenge begins now to get everything put away, I'm still seriously thinking about limiting our clothes to seven days worth.  Ok, fine...THEIR clothes.

The basement needs a good overhaul too, with the amount of Todd's junk...I mean "STUFF", you can hardly move around down there.   I just need to figure out a way to bribe him to clean up down there...and then I need to go buy more baskets.