During the month of December, as usual, any extra moments were spent going shopping or wrapping presents, and also many trips out of town for our company/business.    At the end of the holiday's, I felt as if my house was in a bit of unorganized chaos. My dh was off two weeks from work, and we just took it easy the week  after Christmas.   Last week, the week of New Years, I was tempted to have no school and just get the house under control and everything else that had been let go.  For various reasons, I didn't do that.

However, this week, I knew, for sanity's sake, that the most important thing to accomlish would be to get all the things hanging out there undone, done.
We had our Bible class, our history class, (both family reading classes) and English (independent writing).

I've made a new goal for the year, 2007.  It's the paperwork in my life that's my very loose end. I had no order, no filing system, nothing.  My checkbook was way behind in recording the checks, and my bank statements needed to be filed and put away.  I did it, the first step in reaching my 2007 goal, setting up a filing system. I got my checkbook up to date, and organized my used checkbooks and my bank statements.

We haven't taken down our two Christmas trees, yet, but we did get a lot of the misc. holiday stuff put into boxes. Still to be put in the basement, but now in the demolished kitchen. My big crumbling kitchen that sits vacant right now, has been hosting all my Christmas wrapping paper, and now my Christmas boxes of things that will be taken to the basement.  It's starting to be a holding tank of anything I'm not sure what to do with, but I'll deal with that problem at another time.

The rest of the week is a bit of a blur. I'm not sure why, I am sure I accomplished a lot, I just don't remember everything (or almost anything) at this particular moment.

I do remember, though, this week just seemed so overwhelming, as in, there's so much to do, where do I start? And even after I'd worked several days, it seemed as if so much more to go. I kept  remembering a blog I'd read, I couldn't tell you who's it was, but there was this blogger that went and took a vacation at her sister-in-law's (SIL), and her SIL amazed her because she had so much to do but never came unglued about it all. She finally asked her SIL, "How do you do it?" Her SIL  didn't think she was doing anything exceptionally amazing, but being pressed to answer the question, she said, " Well, I just do one thing at a time."  That's what I kept thinking about this week, this blogger's SIL that said, "Just one thing at a time".  It may seem overwhelming, but just do the most important thing for the moment. 

Today, we cleaned the house. I didn't get it perfect, but it looks pretty good. It's my desire to honor the Sabbath, so it's Friday night, and this is a resting point in our week. It's like the period at the end of the sentence. The pause in the phrase of music.  It's time for me to just sit and rest, enjoy my family, read a book.  I try to not do that one more load of laundry. Clean that one more messy spot. Next week starts another week. No, it's not perfect, not everything is "done", but it's ok. We'll start again next week.