Decluttering

It's been a week with no school. I have successfully picked up and cleaned most of the house, minus the office of course. I'm hoping that this coming weekend we will get to that. I'm not going to hold my breathe though. The kids did an awesome job helping me clean out their drawers of things that don't fit them, as well as putting all their laundry away. All the beds in the house have had the bedding changed, now to wash all the old bedding. This morning when I got up, I did dishes and picked up the kitchen, then it was laundry time. Today will be load after load of washing, drying and folding. Thankfully it's just Jon and I's stuff and the bedding. I did a load of the kids clothes over the weekend. It's a good feeling when Julie says to me, "Mom I wore that yesterday, did you wash it already?" Yes, yes I did Julie.

Since the lady that was helping me clean was doing a mediocre job and hasn't called or showed up in over a month, she's fired. I'll clean the house myself from now on till school starts. Once school starts again I may find someone else that can come twice a month at least to help with the floors, since that seems to be the hardest thing to find the time for.

Everything here in the Moses house is good. The older kids are staying busy, and loving it. Jon is enjoying his job, and I'm enjoying having the time to pick up and not have everything be cluttered. Eventually I will get to the closets, even though the thought of that makes me shudder just a little. They aren't terrible, but there are a few that I don't look forward to having to deal with. Sadly the time will come where I have to. I'm thinking for the office closet that time will come when the air conditioner needs to be put in upstairs, because currently that unit is in the office closet. I hope to have the house organized completely by the time I go back to school, this will make maintaining it easier, especially since I don't have a cleaning lady anymore.

As things continue to stay busy around here with the kids after school activities. I look forward to Tyler's first soccer tournament. He's gotten so good at the game this year. I contribute that to his awesome dedicated coaches. He's gained a lot of confidence in himself in the last 3 months or so, and it's nice to finally see him not so angry at life. I also look forward to Julie's recital. She's worked so hard, and is very good at it. I hope to see her continue with it during the school year next year. We will see though, both kids this summer want to try something new and attend summer camp.

It's been a great year so far. I don't expect the second half will be anything less then that.