If you give a mom a curtain…

a very large, flat curtain, with a bird and floral print in yellows and blues, is spread out on multiple ironing boards in kitchen

Now that our youngest is no longer sleeping on the couch, I wanted to get the living room back to some semblance of order. I put the couch back to rights and began picking up and putting away. One thing I wanted to take care of was the curtains, which were folded neatly in a pile on the coffee table, but dirty. So, I washed them. Of course, if you wash a curtain, it will need to be ironed. Getting the ironing board out from next to the dryer forced me to confront the fact that everything in that area was covered in linty dust – the vent hose had come detached at some point, and the dryer was just venting into the closet area where it lives. I obviously needed vacuum. I tried to vacuum around the dryer, but that clearly wasn’t going to work. I had to pull the dryer out. But I couldn’t do that until I took everything off the dryer. Most of the stuff on top of it was stuff that I wanted to be in the cupboard above the washing machine…so I emptied that cupboard…well, one shelf, anyway. That was all I really needed, and I hadn’t exactly planned to empty a cupboard right that minute…🤣🙃

So, I emptied and cleaned the bottom shelf in the cupboard, then repopulated it with the stuff from the top of the dryer. Then I pulled the dryer out (and all the random stuff that had accumulated next to it). Once I’d pulled the dryer out and vacuumed, I obviously had to scrub the walls and floor. The floor was a pain to clean…there was a spill of… presumably laundry soap…ever tried to clean soap? You just keep rinsing; it just keeps suddsing. Now, having done all that for the dryer, I could not not also do it for the washing machine 🙃!

In the meantime, I did, in fact, get the curtains ironed and hung. By hung, I mean they were on curtain rods in the windows in the living room. Which was all I could do with the short ladder. What I could not do with the short ladder was reach the top of the curtains so I could center and unbunch them.

So, I had to get the big ladder… While I had the big ladder in the kitchen (because the kitchen is between where the big ladder lives and the living room), I rearranged items on the shelf above the right window and hung another piece of stained glass in the left window.

Back in the living room, I used the tall ladder to adjust the curtains.

That makes it sound easy or straightforward. It was not. I had to squeeze between, walk around, and or/move furniture. I had to hoist the ladder over a chair, and open and close and reposition it multiple times. And I still couldn’t quite reach one or two of the corners, so the top ruffle isn’t as straight as I’d like 😒. They do look very nice. Probably no one I would ever notice they aren’t perfect… I take that back. My aunt might notice. 🤣

Once the curtains are even and the ruffles are straight; it’s time to put the tiebacks on. Five of the six of these were uneventful. The sixth was positioned such that there was a doll in the way of putting the pin in. In order to move that doll, I had to move another doll, which leaning on the first one. That doll had a different doll leaning on it, which was holding a toy boat… and the next thing you know I’m cleaning the organ 🤪Since I had the wood polish out for the organ anyway (the dolls were on the organ, did I forget to mention?),

I dusted and polished bookshelves, end tables, coffee table (chest), and everything on them. Of course, the tables all had glass tops, so those had to be dusted and windexed. With all that dusting, the next thing was to vacuum…

I didn’t get all that on video, because my camera battery died 😂Please enjoy what I did capture 🙃!

And with that, the living room was in even more of a semblance of order than I had originally set out to accomplish 😁! Now that all that is done, all that’s left to do is… clean the doll house, move the shirts, move the bins, and clean the bookshelf behind the bins…then it will probably be time to clean the curtains again…