ok... Let's get organized!!

I love organization.  I love to organize. I would REALLY LOVE if someone would do it for me!!

Yet the older I get the more various organization tools truly excite me! I know... how boring.

Seriously though... like clear plastic bins... in various sizes!

A label gun... which I do not have, but plan on purchasing.  Oh the anticipation!! Oh the gloriousness of a well labelled and organized garage... crawl space  and laundry room.

First.... to de-clutter!!

I know... some of you are saying..

"who are you and what have you done with my friend/sister/daughter/wife/mother" ok let's face it ... if you know me at all you would know or at least think I must be talking about someone else!

Nope it's me.. clutter paralyzes me. It overwhelms and frustrates me. I don't know where to start and am horribly ill equipped to deal with it.  Not that my parents didn't try to teach me.  Every once in a while, whilst still living at home, I would take absolutely every item out of my bedroom and wash  all the walls, floors, baseboards, including the closet, then put everything back.  Trying to purge as I went. I was horrible at purging though. I swear I had an emotional attachment to everything!!
This is no longer the case.  Sometimes I wonder if I haven't gotten too detached from things... or perhaps too spontaneous in my purging moments.  I sometimes regret whatever it is I decided to purge. Realizing there is not much i can do about it once it's gone and hope that whoever has it now is enjoying it.

I digress....

The purpose in de-cluttering all these hidden areas is so I actually have space to store things that are actually worth being stored.  So I can actually de-clutter the areas that people do see ... like my counters, island... etc.  What's the use in having a desk or a filing cabinet when there is nothing in it, but on it.

This is my mission.  To get organized!!

I have also realised I am a schedule person.  I was almost desperate to buy an organizational calendar this year but didn't see anything I liked.  Then realised... Oh look... I have one on the computer.
Not being computer savvy, this is new to me.  I'm going to try it.

My daily chores I immediately want to enter into said schedule are.... make coffee, empty dishwasher, reload if need be. start laundry, make breakfast, drive kids to school, come home, wash floors, vacuum and clean bathrooms. Pick up Austin, come home make lunch.  Hang with my youngest amazing son... no schedule just take it as it goes. Library visit, museum... just reading at home or playing. Getting outdoors. Pick up Dallas, help him with homework, make dinner, clean up dishes, bathe kids, read stories, hang out with the boys and my man and bed time.

Fall into a coma and wonder why I ever gave up .... various vices.   Ok ... Wine and cigarettes.

Just kidding... why? It was slowing me down.... and I'm 40 years older than my kids!! I need all the energy I can get!

I'm writing this and just started giggling because I had a married mother of 3 actually ask me once what I did at home all day.  As she had never been a stay at home mom and that's ok.  I think she thought being a stay at home mom would be boring and one would literally sit on ones butt and watch soap operas and eat chocolate.

Bwaa hahahahaha.... I don't have time for that.  Even if I MADE time for that, it would be popcorn/chips and vanilla coffee, and it wouldn't be soaps,,,, though I did watch them when I was younger. It would be movies. Classic ones... with Clark Gable or Marilyn Monroe or Carey Grant!

Again... digressing.

Somewhere in this schedule I need to make time to file my bills and keep a calendar of our expenses... Oh yes and paying them on time would be good as well.

One thing I never have to make time for is prayer.  I am constantly talking with God. He is my love, my strength, my joy.

I know I can do this because I've surrendered all this to God. He is guiding me... He is with me.

I'm excited... so starts my "Mom adventure"!