One more area down....

I continued cleaning again tonight.  Got the breakfast nook cleaned and disinfected.  floor in the kitchen mostly swept and moped.  Looks so much better!  I need to declutter alot around the island but I see the light at the end of the tunnel. 
I need to clean out the pantry and reorganize.  I also have the appliance storage area to do.  I wish I had more cabinets.
Can you ever have enough cabinets?
I did get my craft area reorganized the other day.  The boys took over another load to the garage and I probably could take over four more wheel barrels full.  So I hope to have another productive weekend.  Since it will probably rain I might be able to get a lot done.  The spare bedroom will be next before I ever think about my bedroom.  Now you know.  They say that writing it down is the first step.  It is helpful to go back and see what I have said I would do and if I did it- so far so good.
Cute thing Bella said yesterday-my allergies have been bothering me and my eye was red.  I was talking to her about it and she looked at me and said- "Mom, you got crack eye!".  I think she was referring to the bloodshot look and not the drugs....she comes up with some wild stuff.  Lately she has been covering Haden up and dramatically proclaiming he has "itchy foot eyetis".  She must have seen this on a cartoon or something but I have yet to see it....and the adventure continues.

Sunday- not a day of rest.

Been one heck of a busy day and weekend.  I am finally sitting down and watching "I Survived". There is a 16 yr old girl that was savagely rapped by two men in this episode.  So amazing how some people have something like that happen and come out so strong.  Others are consumed by the tragedy and die even though they stay alive.  Gives life perspective.  I have had my share of happenings in my life.   I hope the way they have defined me has given me strength and not weakness.
Movement on the homefront- got about 2/3 of what I wanted to accomplish done.  Bella now has her own toddler bed and will probably won't be in it long.  She is growing so fast. 
I am thinking of organizing a Glendale yard sale -kinda like the Comeback one they have every year. Wish I had a team like Clean House that would come and do the yard sale part.  I couldn't handle them coming into my house to clean it out- too stressful- but they could help with the yard sale.  I hate pricing stuff. It's my stuff and it is worth something to me but not what people will pay for used leftovers. 
I should sleep well tonight.

Saturday- Yippie?

Thank you Lord Jesus for making me Coffee- nuff said.  Well, the diaper assembly line is done for a little while and the kids are fighting over books.  The plan for the day is to finish cleaning the kitchen nook and the hutch in the "dining room" or Bella's room. I almost have the furnature to the point that I can move it around.  I spent some time with my Mom on Wednesday and a milestone happened- I got the courage to ask if I could give her back the hutch and she said she didn't have a place to put it and I could sell it at my Traderbakers booth.  Talking about shocked!  I didn't argue. I have an issue about getting rid of anything she gives me because in the past she would come back say 3 years after she gave me something and ask if I had used it or where it was.  And my Mom is the queen of kitchen small appliances, constantly giving my sister and I duplicate items that she probably purchased off of QVC or HSN.  Some of them are great but after awhile anyone only has so much room to store them all.  Like pressure cookers.  She has given me 4- one of them an electric one.  Mind you I haven't used one in 4 years and I don't can.  So far I have identified two to get rid of and sold the electric one in the booth for far too little but it is gone.
 I also need to rearrange my cutting area.  Stuff is really stacked in the living room around my end of the couch and is scarry at times.  The "Gistapo" are coming and would frown on this.  More on that later.  I will take picture of before and after.  Gotta record the history of of it all.

Why and what is the reason for this insanity....???

I was thinking as I was making coffee this morning what the reason was for doing this blog... I think it is just to get out thoughts. I don't know that I really have a need for others to see what I am thinking but I don't have a paranoia for it either. God knows I have paranoia for other things like rats and people seeing my mess at my house. I am trying the desensitizing strategy of one - and it's not the rats. I over-analysed and think my fear of visitors is inherited from my mother. Have you realized that you become your parents no matter how hard you try not to? I slowly look more like my mother each day- in my opinion. My children have noted that we don't go anywhere and do anything....Is that a bad thing? It has always been comfortable to me. I do work everday so it itsn't like I am a hermit like my mother. I deal well with the public often and have social skills (I think). Where is the critical balance? Am I traumitizing my children for life because we don't "visit"? I guess time will tell....I don't know if that is something I want to change about myself. I do know that I want to change my hoarding tendancies. Yes, Hello, my name is Samantha and I am a hoarder. I have said it before and will chant that mantra until the day I die- not with pride but for self improvement. I have an addictive personality - also inherited.... first addiction is food as was evident with my huge body of 5 years ago (anniversary of my surgury is next month) and now it seems I trade obsessions. But just so it is known... I am working on me. I am seriously considering getting my BA in Business Admin. or Management. I am looking at Western Governors U- online program. More to come on that later. Some my think that confirms my insanity- working full time with five kids to take care of but I think I could do it in a year and half. Onward and it's Wednesday and I love the sunshine.

And what day is it?

I guess it is Tuesday and a beautiful one at that. I have begun cleaning out my house recently and am trying very hard to rid myself of stuff I have accumulated over the years of my life. Maybe writting about it will help-- I am trying to look at thing with the idea of how does it make me feel to see it piled up? Not - will I need this at sometime in the future. Because, the reality is that if I needed it in the future, chances are that I couldn't find it anyway. Wish me well. Yesterday I went through my wall-o-yarn and got 2 boxes to give away, three boxes to sell in my flea market booth, and three boxes to sell in the yardsale. I will succeed. Hardest is the things I really need to keep for my tiles. I need storage and it is there behind the junk too....just have to dig out the closet.