Clearing out...

You would think, after our last post about the big storm that hit our area, that this would be a post about cleaning up and clearing out around our house...
But it's not...entirely.
Because of the storm, we were stuck in the house for 3 days.
This gave me a great chance to look around at all the clutter...and it made me shudder.
We had this HUGE pile of toys on our living room floor.
I thought it was good for the girls to have a bunch of toys to play with.
But in reality, they didn't play with half of them.
So, out came the garbage bags yesterday.
I started weeding through the toys, and i took out things that neither girl has ever played with, i took out things that Mady played with when she was a baby and that Em never showed any interest in, and i took out all the little toys that we seemed to accumulate over the years from party gift bags and such...and i put them all in a garbage bag.
We are taking them to the Salvation Army.
I feel bad, getting rid of a bunch of toys.
Mostly because people bought them for the girls, and because i feel like our future kids may be interest in playing with them even if our current kids aren't.
And the second i said that out loud, i felt like i should be on one of those hoarder shows on tv.
Which makes it even more evident that the toys should go.
There will be plenty of Christmas's, plenty of birthday's, and plenty of special occasions where we (and others) can buy the girls toys that they will play with.
And when a new baby comes along, we can buy them new toys to play with.
I have to go through the toys scattered in the girls rooms, and the toys that have been in the basement since we moved here (gee, if that's not a sign they can go to needy families, i don't know what is), and then off to the sal val they go!
Unless someone knows of a better place to take them, where they will benefit more kids?!
It's nice to have some of my floor back, even if it's only for 2 months before Christmas gets here!
I always feel so much better after a good clean up and declutter :)