A few weeks after the baby was born, my neighbour blessed us with 2 huge tubs of her grown-up son’s lego. (She’ll regret it when she starts having grandchildren who’ll ask for lego later on)

There were complete boxed sets –

bases

And somewhere in the pile of loose pieces, were signs of a castle and a ship.

The tubs sat in our foyer for more than a week because it was mind boggling just trying to figure out how we would organize it and integrate these pieces with our existing lego.

Finally, we plucked up our courage and decided to tackle the tubs. Being a little on the obsessive compulsive side, MS dad and I decided to “organize” the lego into neat piles. We even googled “lego – how to organize” and came upon a very neat website.

We declared the following day “Lego day” in lieu of school.

It turned out to be 5 Lego days. That’s how long it took MS dad, myself and the 2 girls to sort through the pieces.

Some of the loose pieces, somewhat sorted out:

Our basement taken over by blocks: (Every container you see in the picture has lego pieces in them)

Part of the reason why it took so long was because MS dad was also putting together the ship and the castle, and also the boxed sets to see if we had all the pieces…which amazingly, after 15 years, had not been lost.

The castle assembled:

Lego after it’s been sorted:

(I told you we were OCD)

Now the children aren’t allowed to play with it. They’ll just mess up the blocks. haha

Just kidding.

Sort of.