My Girl

 My oldest (living) daughter made a confession the other day to me....she finds cleaning and organizing calming! I don't know where she came from!! LOL I hate cleaning and organizing! It's truly stressful and overwhelming to me! I have a craft room, which for the last year I have half jokingly called my crap room. The goal of the room is to hold our homeschool supplies/books, and eventually craft in there. I am not a naturally crafty person, but oh so want to be! I enjoy card making, and have successfully made them. I have goals to make scrapbooks of my children, and one day quilt. The immediate goal is to have the room functional again. It was until about a year ago, and honestly I'm not sure what happened, but the kids started tossing things in there, probably in a moment of freaking out clean up before company came (is my guess!!) So my daughter, E and I started working on cleaning and organizing. We worked off and on for a few hours and it's about 1/2-3/4 the way done. We will finish it tomorrow, or E will. I have a bible study with my friend after church and then a leadership meeting at 4 at church. I'm not even sure if I'll be coming home between them. If so, then I'll work on the room, but if not, then E will be at it on her own. 
Once we are done with that room tomorrow, on Monday after she finishes school she's going to start on her old shared room with her sister, so now her sister's room, which is HORRIFIC!! E said that she does not want O in there, she has a plan on how to get the room cleaned and organized. The other night, E and I went to the store and bought totes and storage bins, etc so she can start on that room, then once she's done with that (she thinks it will be a Monday-Friday job, which since she will not be working on it until late afternoon and evening), her taking 5 days seems realistic. I told her I could come and help her and she said, "no, I really prefer to just do it on my own". She's crazy. Once she's finished with O's room, then she wants to organize the boys room. Again, we have totes and storage bins, but I'll probably needs to get a few more storage bins. Once she's done with the boys room, she's moving down to the playroom. I have a label maker on its way for the totes (I had to order the label maker, since none of the stores locally had any, since clearly EVERYONE is labeling everything!). My 17 year old son JT is going to clean the family room. It will be so nice to have everything done. 

I'm hoping that before Christmas my husband will not be working so late (it's harvest season, so he is working late nights!), and can get his area of the basement all cleaned and organized. We have new shelving to go down there. He had TONS of Army stuff down there, so once he gets through that, the basement will look great, then we will start tackling the garage. We have flooring to go up to the attic, where what we keep in the garage will go to, but hopefully  most of what's in the garage will just GO. 

So hopefully this time next year, we will have a cleaned up house, organized, and downsized! 

Pray for us!