Post by shellie on Nov 1, 2015 20:14:55 GMT
Good Morning to all the Lovely Ladies, REMEMBER ME???
I am trying to keep things ship shape here at home while also doing what must be done at Mums. There seems to be a constant stream of things going in and out my door.
I have been keeping washing mostly up to date (although I feel I've fallen a little behind this weekend) and done all the washing from Mum's.
I have all the family archives here now (and a few non family ones). My Aunt was never married, she was a long term housekeeper for a priest who was like family to us all. My Nana's archives/photos passed to my Aunt as well as the priests and another Uncle, then my Aunt's archives/photo's passed to Mum. Now they are with me. So many documents, birth,death and marriage certificates, documents regarding their work, and well as some of my fathers (grandparents) archives that Mum had kept for us. There is a suitcase full of old photo's as well as my own childhood photo's. I have sorted the ones to go to my brother but he isn't interested in any of the archives.
Brother and his family came to Mum's on Friday to make their choices. I had a very methodical plan as to how we would go through things, but 23yo Nephew turned up also with the notion he has decided to move out of home and needed kitchen supplies. Well between trying to get Brother off the couch to sort through 1 drawer of DVD's, Sis-in-Law going room by room (as was my plan) and Nephew like a whirlwind in the kitchen it was challenging to say the least. The worst was keeping Brother focused to the task (he wanted to chat and have things bought 'to him' to look at rather than getting up and looking himself) and having to stop Nephew from claiming Waterford Chrystal Glasses for his 1st flat. He is what I can best describe as a 'slow learner', I'd probably guess his mental age at about 14-15(I don't mean to be cruel) and has been in remedial classes all his schooling, so the fact I had stored all the antiques, crystal and silverware in the pantry cupboard to be viewed by Brother and then the auctioneer, he had no concept that these where precious items and not appropriate for a 1st flat. When I did guide him to the everyday items, I had to explain a steamer saucepan set and then explain he didn't need 6 saucepans as he could wash them up after each use. S-i-L did agree with me (thank goodness) and then admitted she didn't cook with saucepans so he probably wouldn't know how to use them. Well then why take them??? Anyway I guided him to some Tuppleware (also explaining it's lifetime guarantee) and he boxed up 3 boxes to get him started. But he was into everything like a whirlwind and it was off putting. Then when it was time to get him to help me and his mother pack up the many boxes of stuff they were taking, he took HIS things to his car and left. So S-i-L couldn't fit much of what they wanted in her car as she had cleverly kept Brothers wheelchair and walker in the car. SO after spending a good 4hrs there to get them to take what they wanted, I have been left with a pile of stuff they want but couldn't take and I am guessing it will be up to me to help her carry it all out. I really don't need to be carrying heavy pot plants around and to be left if a bad back and all the rest of the stuff to deal with. When they finally left I had hoped S-i-L would do 2 trips and get it done, but NO she had an appointment she had to get to. Well why did we take me away from my family (DD21 and TNB were visiting) just to be left in the same mess as before.
I have bought much of the pantry items home, still full of food to decide what is useful and what need decluttering. (I had wanted to give Brother the option of taking food, don't want to appear greedy, but they wanted none of it). So I am also washing much of that up in stages to decide what to do with it next.
I have bagged up all Mum's clothes, but can't make myself take them from the garage to the car to the St Vinnies. I guess in a finality thing.
The back corner of my family room and DS22's old room is a disaster zone. Boxes, bags, some full, some emptied. So many decision to be made. Wanting to make sure I preserve the special items. Mum was a little crafty and had made some decorator books with pics and poems, some ceramic wear and well as crocheted rugs, coat hangers, scarfs etc. And I just want everyone to have something she made. At this stage only DD21 is terribly interested so I need to find storage for the items for DS22 and DD17. So among everything else I am trying to de-clutter some things here to make room for others. OH BOY!!!!
I am trying to keep things ship shape here at home while also doing what must be done at Mums. There seems to be a constant stream of things going in and out my door.
I have been keeping washing mostly up to date (although I feel I've fallen a little behind this weekend) and done all the washing from Mum's.
I have all the family archives here now (and a few non family ones). My Aunt was never married, she was a long term housekeeper for a priest who was like family to us all. My Nana's archives/photos passed to my Aunt as well as the priests and another Uncle, then my Aunt's archives/photo's passed to Mum. Now they are with me. So many documents, birth,death and marriage certificates, documents regarding their work, and well as some of my fathers (grandparents) archives that Mum had kept for us. There is a suitcase full of old photo's as well as my own childhood photo's. I have sorted the ones to go to my brother but he isn't interested in any of the archives.
Brother and his family came to Mum's on Friday to make their choices. I had a very methodical plan as to how we would go through things, but 23yo Nephew turned up also with the notion he has decided to move out of home and needed kitchen supplies. Well between trying to get Brother off the couch to sort through 1 drawer of DVD's, Sis-in-Law going room by room (as was my plan) and Nephew like a whirlwind in the kitchen it was challenging to say the least. The worst was keeping Brother focused to the task (he wanted to chat and have things bought 'to him' to look at rather than getting up and looking himself) and having to stop Nephew from claiming Waterford Chrystal Glasses for his 1st flat. He is what I can best describe as a 'slow learner', I'd probably guess his mental age at about 14-15(I don't mean to be cruel) and has been in remedial classes all his schooling, so the fact I had stored all the antiques, crystal and silverware in the pantry cupboard to be viewed by Brother and then the auctioneer, he had no concept that these where precious items and not appropriate for a 1st flat. When I did guide him to the everyday items, I had to explain a steamer saucepan set and then explain he didn't need 6 saucepans as he could wash them up after each use. S-i-L did agree with me (thank goodness) and then admitted she didn't cook with saucepans so he probably wouldn't know how to use them. Well then why take them??? Anyway I guided him to some Tuppleware (also explaining it's lifetime guarantee) and he boxed up 3 boxes to get him started. But he was into everything like a whirlwind and it was off putting. Then when it was time to get him to help me and his mother pack up the many boxes of stuff they were taking, he took HIS things to his car and left. So S-i-L couldn't fit much of what they wanted in her car as she had cleverly kept Brothers wheelchair and walker in the car. SO after spending a good 4hrs there to get them to take what they wanted, I have been left with a pile of stuff they want but couldn't take and I am guessing it will be up to me to help her carry it all out. I really don't need to be carrying heavy pot plants around and to be left if a bad back and all the rest of the stuff to deal with. When they finally left I had hoped S-i-L would do 2 trips and get it done, but NO she had an appointment she had to get to. Well why did we take me away from my family (DD21 and TNB were visiting) just to be left in the same mess as before.
I have bought much of the pantry items home, still full of food to decide what is useful and what need decluttering. (I had wanted to give Brother the option of taking food, don't want to appear greedy, but they wanted none of it). So I am also washing much of that up in stages to decide what to do with it next.
I have bagged up all Mum's clothes, but can't make myself take them from the garage to the car to the St Vinnies. I guess in a finality thing.
The back corner of my family room and DS22's old room is a disaster zone. Boxes, bags, some full, some emptied. So many decision to be made. Wanting to make sure I preserve the special items. Mum was a little crafty and had made some decorator books with pics and poems, some ceramic wear and well as crocheted rugs, coat hangers, scarfs etc. And I just want everyone to have something she made. At this stage only DD21 is terribly interested so I need to find storage for the items for DS22 and DD17. So among everything else I am trying to de-clutter some things here to make room for others. OH BOY!!!!
