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It is just all so strange. Last night Brad, instead of huffing and puffing about the mess, APOLIGIZED for not helping me clean up the kitchen after dinner. What is THAT about?

I told him last night how I've really been feeling about all of this. How scared I was about the possibilty of the deployment and how happy I am about his decision to try and get out of the Army. He just grinned and "yeah, I know."

I need to update about the girls. I'm letting all these funny and lovely things they do and say just slip away. ( Read more... )

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I'm thinking of trying Flylady again. I tried it before and the e-mails just annoyed me. I never read them. But I did pick up some really useful little tips for helping me jumpstart when I get overwhelmed. The three that stick out are putting on your shoes, setting the timer for 15 minutes of work and then 15 minutes of break, and shining the sink. I don't really want to do the e-mails, but I would love to try making a control journal and starting bedtime and morning routines. And I did really like the hot spot reminders. (If none of this makes sense to you, check out flylady.net).

I think I'm thinking about flylady again because I'm feeling really energized for some reason. Tonight I tackled the "chest of doom". It is this chest of drawers I put in the kitchen/dining area of our house to hold craft supplies and school stuff. It worked very well for a little while and then it exploded. It became a catch-all, junk chest (not just a junk drawer, an entire chest), a place to put anything and everything that didn't have a specific location assigned to it. Well, no longer. It is cleaned out and organized with a place for everything and everything in its place. Of course, I'm well aware that it won't stay that way, but at least I feel like I accomplished something.

Now on to the next challenge. Tally ho!


Okay, maybe not tonight. I think I need to sleep a little bit to be ready for the weekend. Brad and I have decided to tackle one room at a time to get ready for the next step of our lives by organizing and getting rid of stuff. We've already done the playroom and we did the living room today/tonight. I'm slowly moving toward the kitchen since I tackled the "chest of doom", so I guess the kitchen is tomorrow. This includes several more "junk" drawers. I hope we don't have to get into the storage area between the kitchen and laundry room just yet. That is a very daunting task. It is not dirty, just overwhelmed with clutter. Have I said that we have way too much stuff before? Well, we do.