Getting So Much Done!

Do you get more done on a project or chore if you do it alone, or with help? For me, I used to get more done by myself, but since my health problems, of course it's easier with help. I have people who do errands for me and I had a cleaning woman who also did laundry every week, but I just can't afford that anymore, and I have enough energy to do small basic chores now. For my big things I have my awesome nephews, who are fourteen. They will do things for me without any questions or complaints that their mother wouldn't even bother to ask them to do because the dispute would be so loud.The other day they came over for about 2 hours, after we first went out for a huge breakfast, of course. They put away the patio furniture for the winter, picked up a whole bunch of gross trash on the front lawn of my townhouse and my neighbor's (There was some kind of explosion from the trash truck, I think!), broke down about 10 boxes for the recycling, brought a bunch of boxes down to the basement and organized them to find things easily when I want them. They also did what they each consider to be their specialties; Andrew vacuumed, using all the attachments to get into every nook and cranny, and Sean made up my bed with fresh sheets. He makes it all nice and tight with hospital corners, just like I taught him.Then we had time to do the big project I wanted to get to: rearranging my craft room and setting up the amazing Cricut Expressions cutting machine that I won from My Craft Corner. Great prize, right? You should check them out, they have great things every month! This is something I definitely can't do myself because of the furniture moving. As we moved things, Andrew ran around with the vacuum, chastising me for crumbs around the computer and little bits of paper and sequins all over the floor. Hey, it's a craft room, buddy!He even vacuumed all the dust mixed in with the computer cords.We had the room rearranged and the Cricut all set up and ready to go when tragedy struck! I had opened the box several weeks ago when it arrived and dug around, moving some things. Now, just as we are all set to do our first cut, something all 3 of us were excited to try, we couldn't find the blad! The most crucial part of the tool. Now I got a lecture for not being careful with things and tossing them randomly into baskets. Huh? Isn't that what they do with their own junk? I tried to think of where I would have put it to be "safe", and finally gave up and went to the Cricut website to buy one. $30.00, and they were out of stock. Just as I turned in my chair to move away from the computer, look what Sean found!It was in a Ball jar full of all sorts of detritus that had no home. Since he saved me $30.00 plus shipping, Sean has redeemed himself for losing our movie tickets 10 years ago. I think that's fair, don't you?
I will show you the rearranged craft room soon, the picture here has too much junk in front of the camera.