Yesterday I took apart my living room, down to rolling up the Very Nice Rug and taking it outside and letting little children jump around on it.
The fall cleaning was long overdue, but it was initiated, in this case, by a child throwing a pinecone and breaking a storm window.
The pinecones were free, from church, but they turned out to be an expensive lesson for that child.
Anyway, having figured out the magic secret of removing the screen and the other storm window--it seems like it is a different secret for every rental we've lived in--I was able to clean the whole window, and then went on to wash the outsides of the other first-floor windows.
Returning inside, with the kids' desktop computers already disconnected to get at the window, I decided to keep going, slowly.
The children wanted the computer table moved to a different wall, and I wanted to move the toy shelf somewhere less prominent, replacing it with bookshelves that were already in the room.
I took out one end table, which used to function as a perch for little children and now only accumulates clutter.
The toy shelf went in front of a window. I put our very rustic red dollhouse on it, knowing that our cat likes to curl up in one of the upstairs rooms. Now she can watch both the family and the outside world from up there. The rest of the dollhouse is again being used for drawing and coloring supplies.
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