spring cleaning

For the past 3 weekends Nuno and I have been doing a spring house cleaning. It's been very intense. We've cleaned the windows, cleaned out the refrigerator, organized drawers & closests, moved every piece of furniture and cleaned & vacuumed it and under it. The finale of this blitz is this weekend in our basement. The basement is huge and seems to have turned into a catch-all since we moved. Right now it's cluttered with all the items that came with our home and decided not to use, tons of artwork and life drawing, cardboard boxes from every purchase we've made since buying the house (why do we keep boxes?) and spare pieces of furniture. Well, what doesn't get sorted into storage is headed to Habitat for Humanity or recycled.
I can't wait till all this is done. Once our house is totally clean we will be ready to focus on our Easter Brunch! More on that later...