Sorry Loves

Hello my faithful reader . . . s

I am sorry the last few and the next few posts are so - dull. I want it all recorded and I need it all for my letter to conference, but it is a little bit of a me fest in a way I'm not so comfy with and I am guessing isn't so fun to read. I learned today that the average length of these documents is 8 pages. Mine is looking closer to 15 at the moment. Edit edit edit. 

So today I was actually thinking about something else. I am in the process of purging our house. The only real place that I am practicing any restraint in is the kids toys, and let me tell you, it's hard. I really don't like how cluttered their playroom is. There is no blank wall space. Every floor edge had something sitting on it. I so want to go through it and just get rid of stuff. The Duplo already went to Grandpa C's and Gramma M and Grandpa H are getting the little people stuff. They just have so much and I feel over whelmed by it all. That is why I am asking fro IKEA gift cards for them for Christmas. They don't need more toys, they need smarter storage. Uniform and easy to keep clean and organized. 

It's not just their play room that's getting cleaned up and thrown away / donated. The whole house is experiencing it. The wrath of the cleaner. Art drawers have been cleaned out, all nine. The closets hold what I want and nothing more. I have been feeling like our house is bloated, heavy and overstuffed with stuff. I'm excited when I see my dresser drawers with space in them and only clothes I wear. I want to be able to find things without digging through other things. I want things in our house to have a place. Where do you put your stuff when you come in from outside? Your purse, computer bag, your lunch bag and the kids school bags and so on. These simple little things are the things that end up as clutter. things belch out of the bag and voila you can't walk across the room without stepping on or over something.

It's not that I want a shiny house that looks staged, it's that I want things to have a place so that it doesn't take me four days and I still am not finished cleaning the house. Plus with me going back to school full time next year I really would like to train the family to pitch in and tidy as they go. I think I should be able to train them in a year don't you.

Okay fell asleep for a sec.

Night. Be