17 people.
That's how many people we've had in and out of our house in the past two days.
We knew we needed to do some serious purging in our house to make room for the many pieces of equipment and supplies that we are accumulating since the SMA diagnosis. Not to mention needing to make our spaces as open as possible for Ella.
But we knew we couldn't do it alone. It would take weeks, if not months to complete. We've had a LOT of stuff piling up since we got married!
But instead it took us two days. With the help of 17 people.
We had 17 adults and children at our house to play with Ava, Henry and Ella while Michael and I basically gutted our basement. Our pastor from church organized a group of volunteers to come in shifts over the past two days.
And holy cow, did it help!
Here are some before and after pictures...
The basement "before":
The basement "after":
The storage area "before":
The storage area "after":
Our garage is now filled with TONS of stuff that we'll either be throwing away or donating to our church rummage sale - of course not ALL of it will go...some is our normal "garage" stuff :)
For those of you who don't know this about me, I am a very organized person. I LOVE to organize (when I have the time). Being in a neat and orderly house REALLY helps my sanity :) And I already feel a huge weight lifted :)
Thank you SO much to the 17 of you who came to the rescue (and those who helped to organize it)...we could never have done it without you :)
