My colleague’s son was born a week or so ago. He’s already going to the Spanish embassy to get their Spanish passport. I have yet to do this for my son, who is now four months old.
It’s easy to fall into routines where the bare minimum is getting done. The house is clean-ish. Laundry is done. Son is getting his exercises and sleep and feedings in. I am working, which has been stressful for a few months, and will likely be stressful for a few more.
However, my son doesn’t have his Canadian passport. I haven’t renewed my German passport in over a decade, which I think is a step to having my son get his German passport. My son as mentioned doesn’t even have his Canadian passport, nor a Japanese passport (these two I think will be needed when we go to Canada for Christmas, and the Japanese one for when we take him to Taiwan before that). The house has been disorganized forever, and needs a new concept as there are to many things that just don’t have a place they are supposed to be.
We have rooms of stuff we should actually sort through and throw away. Old curtains that are fine but we don’t need. A table we thought would work but ultimately didn’t.
It is easiest for us to leave clothes on our second floor where the living room is, as this is where it feels natural to get dressed (maybe this is the problem!)
In words, it feels like we’re living in our early 20’s, when in fact we are in our early 40’s and there are certain routines that should’ve been put in place long ago, and now with our son, I feel the urgency there even more to give him a structure and not the semi-chaos.
So I want to spend the free time above the bare minimum mentioned above focusing first on throwing things away. This could be using the car and going to the disposal place or to a recycle shop, but just getting rid of stuff we don’t need, and reclaiming space. Then properly putting in more storage and giving things more places to live.
A filing cabinet of some sorts would also be great.
In this chaos, there is also the need to eventually move my office/games room to the first floor, so our son can have a room beside ours. He may sleep with us for months to come, but I think getting this ready would be a good idea.
So I guess:
- Throw away shit we don’t need
- Get the floor coating done (I think I mentioned this before)
- Move my room to the first floor, and give Ori a room for when he’s ready
If I could do this, I would be happy.
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