Cleaning, Sorting, Organizing

I have a pretty big list of things to get done today.  We're having my family over for our Christmas party and even though my mom always tells me not to go to any extra trouble, I really like my house to be as good as it can be when we all get together.  One of the things on my list is to have Lauryn help me go through her toys and decide what to keep, what to donate and what can be saved for Lucas.  I've explained it to her a couple of times and for the most part she understands.  She did crack me up by telling me that there were a few toys that she'd rather donate instead of saving them for when Lucas is older.  I have a feeling, even though she loves him tons, she'd rather donate all of it instead of giving any to him.  It really needs to get done though.  I was noticing that not only does she have all sorts of toys, ones that work and ones that don't, she also saves random things like articles, ads and envelopes.  I saw an ad for cashiers nc real estate in her toy box and decided it was defnitely time to clean that out!