For me it has never been an easy task. I am a pack rat to the core. I am a sentimental sap, nearly everything has meaning to me. Use to be one excuse or another, I was working full time and going to school full time; I was working 60 hours a week plus trying to get pregnant; then it was I was overwhelmed with this or that. I have tried several times to get things under control over the years. Sometimes with moderate success, sometimes without any success. Once again I am on the path to get things under control. I have also come to realize that this year I am JOYFUL GIVING to my family by doing keeping house. It isn't a chore I HAVE to do. Baby steps, one day at a time. Normally some say to start in the kitchen (the dishes and counters get cleaned don't worry) but I decided to start in the bedrooms and with the laundry rooms. With Brian and Nique's help all the laundry has been done, folded and actually put away. Getting laundry washed has not been an issue for us. It's been the folding and putting away. Once upon a time I had to go buy extra laundry baskets to hold all the clean laundry. Now there are empty laundry baskets because the laundry is put away. My room has been reclaimed as my room instead of the clean laundry hamper. WOOHOO. Caleb's job is to help put the laundry from the washer to the dry. it was cute the other day when he says, "wow, I wore that last night." It's a wonderful feeling as a mom and wife when Brian comes home with his PT gear and looks around the laundry room and doesn't want to just put it down on the ground so he puts it directly in the washer rather than create a new pile. I don't think in 17 years of marriage he has ever had that happen to him. God is really working on me, through my Bible study time and medication I am becoming the wife He truly wants me to be.
The next rooms to be tackled will be the living room and dining room with the school supplies.
Philippians 4:19 And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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I know how difficult this can be as I suffer alongside you, as you very well know. I hope one of these days I'll be able to get where you are. I was for a moment in time but lost it as life took over. I'll get back to it though, in time I know it. Congrats on geting what you have done done! :)
Hey Baby Steps baby steps and one day at a time. We have both been up and down this mountain before. We pick each other up when we fall down. You can do it. Love you just as you are my friend and true soul mate.
I like it. :)
I can't stand laundry pile up - so I'm always on top of it (sorry). Clay actually teases me and says he could wear the same pair of underwear every other day, because everytime he takes them off, puts them in the laundry basket - there they are again the next time he opens his drawer (the next day). I have been starting to get lazy about putting them away though. The pile never gets bigger than what can fit on top of the washer or dryer - but I really need to just put them away and stop piling them up! Good for you - getting organized!
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