reorganizing

 My son and his family are staying with us while they empty, move, and clean their over-100-yrs-old house. We have helped, and it has sold.

Both my son and his wife are do-ers. They see something that needs done, and they fix it. My husband and I are more of the wait-and-see, contemplate-options, don't-rush-anything sort.

This morning, for example, my son was blowing leaves and dust out of the garage and off the driveway and patio. No one asked him to. I don't like to do that because of my allergies, and Jer moves more slowly these days.

Yesterday we reorganized my sewing room.

It all started with a tv. There was an old tv in my sewing room, but we had cancelled DirectTv, and it couldn't receive anything. I said they could move it into the other room to connect their game console for the kids. So they moved the console it was sitting on, which, by the way, had a bunch of VCR tapes. (We no longer have a VCR player.) Anyway, so there was a gap along the wall. So my son suggested shelves for fabric.

Measuring, vacuuming, consolidating stuff in 2 small shelves, removing a small drawer unit, more vacuuming, spot remover on the carpet, moving the table that holds my serger to the other wall, more vacuuming, more measuring, more spot removing, and a fast trip to Lowe's.

My son put the shelves together in just minutes, and we began corralling my fabrics from the laundry room, from under the quilting frame, from the linen closet in the large bedroom. They are all on the shelves. They need to be refolded to fit the shelves, and organized. I did already separate 2 bags to go the local thrift store. I may go back and place contact paper (or I have an old plastic tablecloth) between the fabric and the pressboard. Hopefully pictures someday.