I've just spent, over the last 3 days, about 10 hours cleaning, tidying, sorting, fixing etc in the playroom. A sign of a busy year it was. Nothing was where it should be, groups of things weren't grouped any more, and who knows where the floor was hiding. And what prompted this? The darling children who decided to try and play their brand new chinese checkers game in there, using their rules which involved throwing the pieces around. thankfully they didn't throw them all. I found most of them quite quickly, including the one on the deck. but I was down to 3 that were missing and that was the catalyst for the massive overdue clean out. In the end, i found one in the dolls bed, one in the medieval play set, and one at the bottom of the lego box, 10 hours after the initial search began.
I took out 3 boxes of toys they had grown out of, a box of broken toys, and a box of rubbish.
I'm feeling quite pleased with myself, even if i'm having to do the grumpy face around the darlings.