Well, I was able to do more sorting once my son went to bed Saturday night, but I didn’t feel like I made all that much progress. I sorted maybe 1,500 pieces into my various buckets and then called it a night.
On Sunday we had company over in the afternoon to watch a movie in our recently completed media room. I was able to sort more pieces while watching the movie. (FYI — The Informant is a big thumbs DOWN!!)
My initial sorting piles were anything clownfish in one, anything blue (like the underwater stuff or the sky) in another, the edge pieces, and pretty much everything else in the last pile. The last pile being a compilation of the animals, the hot air balloons, and anything I didn’t know where else to put. When I sat down to start sorting on Sunday, I realized this last pile needed to be further broken down and refined, so I decided it would probably make more sense to pull out the hot air balloon stuff. Unfortunately, I made very little forward progress Sunday afternoon, but I did at least get the hodge podge bucket re-sorted.