Walking Backwards

Why is it that no matter how much I clean or which organizational system I use, I can't seem to get ahead of the game? Can someone please instruct me how you are supposed to get things in order when you have a toddler who insists on playing Godzilla behind you? Amazingly, with all of the cleaning I have done of late, my house looks messier than it did before I started. *Sigh* It just makes me want to put my feet up on the coffee table again.


Jon moves into his new place tomorrow and will be taking quite a bit of the stuff around the house with him, so that's good. It has been getting a little cramped lately. I also am going to be able to rid myself of the ugliest coffee table on Earth. The coffee table that is impossible to dust and that Nico loves to hide things in. Even though we don't have a coffee table to replace it and I will be losing my footrest, I will be glad to see it go. I will regret losing Jon's blender. I threw mine away when he moved in because his was nicer, but now I will be left blender-less. As we don't have the money to replace it right away, I'm going to have to resort to the old-fashioned spoon technique. It is going to be odd not having Jon here all the time, but I suppose all adult relatives must move away some time or another.


Speaking of which, Travis is threatening to take flight on us as well. It seems as if one of his co-workers has offered him a roommate position and Travis wants to take it. No more suburban lifestyle to drag him down. He is still unsure if he is going to go, but I hope he doesn't. We really can't afford for him to leave right now and I don't think he is in the best financial situation to do it. There is no talking to him, though, once he has made up his mind. So right now it is just wait and see. All my little adult children are leaving me :(