February 18, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

"Everything old is New again!"

More than two years ago I just could not take the chaos that had overtaken my basement. Any semblance of order that I had ever claimed was gone. Complete and total chaos had taken over. I could not stand the mess so I found numerous laundry baskets and just started scooping up the mess. I decided that I wanted to see if any of the toys that I picked up would even be missed.

I have been going to go through those baskets many times. They have taunted me from atop an empty freezer. Occasionally in the past six months J has asked what was in those baskets. He would sometimes ask me to get him something that he could see.

Well, this was the day-he was just more curious than he could stand. He got a chair and started looking through the boxes. He was like a kid in a toy store with no limit! I decided that while I did my many, many loads of laundry we could sort the mess.

Miss E hasn't seen these Barbies for more than two years. She never asked what happened to them. When I put them all in a nice little organized box and handed it to her it was like Christmas morning. "I love these Barbie's, where where they?" She has played for hours and hours.

The preschool kids were in heaven with all the additional hotwheel cars and the people for the dollhouse.

Amazing however, that for more than two years, noone even wondered where the toys had disappeared to. They will dissappear forever if they are dumped all over my house again!