Zoning Out

I'm ready to do some major cleaning out in this house! I decided the best way for me to go about this major cleaning adventure is to break the house down into zones. So, I came up with ten zones for our house. The zones were determined by the placement of these spots in my home. I am being really brutal and tough with junk in these zones. I have tackled zone 1, 2, and part of 3 already and I am feeling good about the bags of items that are already at the Goodwill, as well as, the things that made it to the trash!!!

The best part of my plan? No pressure!!! I don’t have unrealistic time frames for completing these zones. And, I think that in itself is motivating me more. I like this plan.

I did go out of the zones and collected all (but one) of my fake trees and I am getting rid of them. I have some really nice trees that I spent quite a bit of money on and I hate to just donate them. So, they may be for sale on facebook or craigslist, soon.

Oh, and John made a funny comment the other day. When he got home, he said it looked like we were moving!!! Ha Ha. I told you, I’m being brutal with this purging of junk idea.

Donate

Just wanted to let others in the area know about a terrific place to donate items...At Teen Challenge. They accept larger furniture and even made the long trek out to our home to pick up the heavy dining room table and a rocking chair. So, great to purge, have someone pick it up, and help a good cause.

09.19.07

Lots happening around these parts. So, blogging has taken a back seat. Perhaps I can come up with some interesting things to say one day soon! For now, just some tidbits of life around here.

• Busy helping plan the Fall Festival at Lily's school. This is one of those activities that is so fun to attend, but not nearly as much fun to plan. Looking forward to the day after...the 30th. Then I might be able to go back to a relatively normal way of living...less meetings more time to think about the holidays and family.





• Changes for John with work. This seems to trickle down and effect everyone. Keeping positive about it all is making it better.





• Lily has her pirate day on Friday at school and she asked me to create a pirate/skull embroidery on a shirt for her. I was pleased she asked me. Here she is in a trial run of her pirate outfit.
  



• Fall is coming soon and I am so eager for its arrival!!!



• Shelly is enjoying preschool and doing well in the mornings at drop off. Thankful for that.



• I took two large outdoor trash bags full of John's clothes to Goodwill along with several comforter sets that we no longer use and a printer that stopped working years ago. Feels oh so good to purge!!!



• Tomorrow I am dropping off over 100 pieces of clothing at the consignment sale at Shelly's school...another oh so good feeling!

Shelly wearing a crazy wig and using a shoelace as a belt!

Lily working on her homework...she is a hard working student!

Off to organize and clean a few rooms!!!