Taxing Weekend

No, our taxes were done over a month ago. Though today is Tax Day, our taxing weekend wasn't scrambling to get forms completed and mailed, our taxing weekend was in continuing our Spring cleaning.

My sister--my bride, worked on sewing curtains for our kitchen (too match the painting/wallpapering we did back in January). The material looks perfect and when she's done I think it will all come together and she'll have her sunflower kitchen. My weekend was focused on the basement. You know, we painted that and set up a playroom for the boys back in January.
Well, this past Sunday I spent most of the day cleaning the boys, seldom used, playroom in the basement and the boys told me that they wanted their toys...upstairs. The novelty of the playroom in the basement had worn off by mid-January and they never really played down there anymore, so our little experiment is over. I've moved the living room down there and the boys playroom will be upstairs where I living room was, right off the screen porch so during the summer the toys (and boys) can move freely between their playroom and the porch for fresh air fun and excitement.
Oh well. I actually like that basement room as a living room myself, its warm in winter, cool in summer, and is quiet. (No TV noise travelling down the halls to a bedroom with a sleeping/napping child.)
The upstairs room isn't great as a playroom, but it was never good as a living room either as our furniture never fit in the room and always looked awkward (fits great downstairs!) The main issue is that it is upstairs with no doors, right off the main hallway and kitchen so, while it is much better for monitoring the boys as they play, it is also VERY visible to guests and the boys are not exactly neat freaks.
Our next step will be trying to get the boys to keep the room clean, clean up after they play and only get out one or two things at time. No, really, I am serious, we really think our boys will do this. Stop laughing. They WILL do this eventually. I'm giving them about a decade to figure it all out.
Still lots more to do, but the boys enjoyed an afternoon of waterpainting in their new playroom yesterday so it is getting more use than the old one already.