I’ve suddenly launched back into another intense phase of nesting. It’s like my brain just turned on with all the things that need thinking about and doing while my son is completely not thinking about any of this. I know he talks to Laura through the day and they do talk about things. But I’m talking about more of the mom things like realizing he doesn’t have any kind of dresser and telling Laura we’ll rent a U-haul to move them.

The basement just needs to be embraced as it is right now. Spending time down there again cleaning under the guest bed made me realize how much I actually love my basement when it’s clean. Sometimes I neglect things so much and then wonder why it looks like things are falling apart. Or if I can’t get my new carpet to replace the carpet that is 30 years old I just give up and figure I can’t have a nice place with carpet like that.

But today showed me I can. My books are almost all narrowed down again and my school wall is back to its happy cheery self. I figured out today too that when you have a big box of dryer sheets from Sam’s it makes the entire room smell like fresh laundry. I currently have one upstairs and downstairs so I’m going to see how it works for when I leave the house and come back. I like being productive and having organized spaces.