My Kids are Gone and I'm Lazy

The post title pretty much sums up this week so far for me.

The kids are off having a blast at family camp with my mom and dad and my brother and his family.

Last week, while they were still here, and I was visioning to myself what this current week would look like, I thought, "With no kids, I'll have so much time!  I'll clean the bathrooms!  I'll vacuum!  I'll have the house so clean and tidy by the time they come home!"

Ha.

I finally unloaded the dishwasher from Monday this morning and loaded all the dishes that were piling up around the sink.  Granted, it's not like I've done much cooking this week, but there were some breakfast dishes and lunch containers hanging around.

I did also try to straighten up a little yesterday evening.

That's about been the extent of it.

Because it's like with no kids around, I'm on vacation when I'm at home.  and then it's very difficult to motivate myself to do anything at home that feels kinda like work.

So there it is.

Today, I might try to finish the job I started cleaning out our little office/den area.  And maybe I can persuade dear hubby to make a run to Salvation Army and drop a bunch of stuff off.  That would be productive.

I'll let you know how it goes.

I am in bit of a dilemmas as to where to put my keyboard.  It's really a full size electric piano.  It's currently in the little office/den, but we want to move it out of there and have that room be entirely office.  The problem is where the heck to put the thing.  There is no space for it anywhere else on the main floor.  That leave upstairs - we have a loft area that it would fit in, or in the basement...somewhere....also not tons of room there.  And I don't like to go down to the basement too, too much.  It's just so... basementy.  Maybe it's a hang-up from when we used to live in basement suites early in our married life.  I just don't like them and try to avoid basements whenever possible.

This makes life interesting as my office is in the basement.  And I expect I will be doing a lot of work down there in the coming months/years.  It is bright and cheery with a nice window.  I just need to get over myself.

Kinda got off topic there... so anyways, I guess we'll figure something out about where to put the keyboard. I'm worried it will just feel weird to have a piano upstairs by the bedrooms.  Do you think it would feel weird?   Like, who has their piano upstairs?  No one.  There's a reason for this.  And it's probably that pianos are super heavy and no one wants to drag them up an extra flight of stairs if they don't have to.

All right, well, have a great day and we'll chat soon!