Ever since I got pregnant, I have been stressing over my home and schedule.  I tried so hard to get everything in order before my ds came home...decluttered our room, sorted out old toys and rearranged the girls' room, reorganized the kitchen, and such.  However, when I came home from the hospital, I found that my home was still just as cluttered and hard to care for.  So, now that I have very little time...how will I get it under control?

My main desire is to have a little simplicity...a little less "stuff" and a lot more family happiness.  I want to feel like we aren't trying to keep up with the neighbors, that we aren't looking like the "world"(and that we can get through the livingroom without tripping :-p).  How do you do this when you don't know where to start? 

The funny thing is, the more time I take to snuggle my little baby and try to reconnect with my girls, the more I realize it is a heart thing.  I need to get God back in the center of my life and days.  I am so very aware that I am not taking time to sit with the Lord and pray over my family/day everyday...and yet that is more important than whether I have my livingroom pristine and my kids room clean.  Those things are good too, but if God is absent from our home, then it is all in vain! 

Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the Lord  keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

From Psalm 127

As I write this, the light bulb goes on and I realize that even if I need to wake up a little earlier, I need to make time for the Lord.  I can not ignore Him, just because my baby woke up too many times last night or because the dishes need to be done.  That can wait...He can't.  He must be first and last in my day...I need to bring my husband, children and day(and all that we will do in it) to him daily!