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Apr. 19, 2006

Spring cleaning

At the present time, life is full of hours of spring cleaning, organizing, throwing away, giving away, and putting away 16 years worth of accumulated STUFF! Our pending move to Colorado and entrance into military life will provide a fresh start to our lives in more ways than one. To sum me up, I'm a disorganized organizer . I'm not a packrat because I throw lots of stuff away, but it seems like what's left just reproduces in the meantime! I have enough homeschool curriculum to teach 20 kids, all different learning methods, and we have more clothes than we could ever wear! God has blessed us abundantly. I am truly thankful, but I have to battle the task of organizing all of the blessings.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Tonight we moved our oldest daughter (15) into the room with the younger girls because her room was constantly a PIG STY! She's a wonderful, godly young lady, but she's a slob, and I don't know how else to teach her orderliness. So, we've minimized her stuff to her bed (clothes remain in the old room). Now I can attack her stuff and throw away or organize it as I feel necessary. This will be fun---NOT! Depending on room sizes, all of the girls will probably share a room in Colorado. I feel that it teaches many good character qualities: tolerance, helpfulness, unconditional love just to name a few. After I'm a SAHM once again, I hope to be more diligent on monitoring their cleaning. For now, it's easier just to close the door .

Tomorrow, we battle another monster load (really 6) of laundry and continue the neverending job of cleaning out the garage. Just a question...are cars really supposed to fit in there?

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Apr. 20, 2006 - Cars prefer the open air, anyway :)

Posted by mamaclsn

I've never had a garage that could fit a car! I suppose you accumulate stuff to fit the space you have, at least that's how it is for us.

Apr. 23, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by hskubes

I had to laugh at your comment about having enough curriculum to teach 20 different children in all different teaching methods... that's me, too! After homeschooling the past seven years, I have accumulated lots of materials.
I also had to chuckle when you said you moved your oldest in with your younger girls. I mentioned that exact thing to my daughter (13)! Since then, her 'piggy' habits have improved some... but we are still monitoring her closely. When we move we will likely live in base housing and the girls will share a room then. I agree that it has tremendous possibilities to produce very good character traits.
I hope your spring cleaning goes well.

~ Christina
www.homeschoolblogger.com/hskubes

Apr. 23, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by newfrontiersacademy

Hope your spring cleaning is going well. I need to do that myself, but I will do it next month.

Apr. 23, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

Good Luck with the spring cleaning. I am going to be doing that at the beginning of next month. My kids hate it when mommy cleans their rooms. That means they are losing lots of stuff. To give you hope, I was a total slob when I lived at home but what my mom taught me must have gotten through because I am almost a nut about keeping my house clean. Keep me posted on the move. Can't wait to meet all of you! Tanya

Apr. 27, 2006 - Is that what garages are for, cars?

Posted by helff

You should see my garage! I am a compulsive garage saler and a pack rat which leads to way too much stuff! I don't think I could possibly fit one more box into our garage, let alone a car!!

Hope your move goes well-can't wait to meet your family!

Angie Helff

Apr. 27, 2006 - Thanks for the confidence Boost!!

Posted by mlpinky

I will think of you as you work on your weight loss journey. I, too, have 52 lbs to lose to reach my goal weight. It seems like a lot, but I'm looking at reaching each 10lbs to make it easier. It's really not too hard with WW pts symtem.
My oldest is a slob too. I'm trying to reward cleanliness with stickers and allowance money. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I do believe that having too much stuff is part of the problem. I really need to weed it out too.
Blessings, mlpinky

Apr. 28, 2006 - Cleaning

Posted by Anonymous

Have you ever checked out Flylady.com? Her 20 minute battles was invaluable to me! She says you can do anything for 20 minutes. You can actually clean a whole room... true - and I don't mean an empty one either. I had to quit "her" because of the tremendous amount of emails -- she reminds you to do stuff all day long and I am not on the computer all day long -- when I'd get on in the evening there were 40 emails from her! Once I got the basic plan down I am flying on my own :>) but she has a good plan to get you started on a lifestyle of getting clean and staying clean. Right now I have a shiny sink to prove it's true.
Be Blessed,
Miss Meg

May. 2, 2006 - Hi there

Posted by ByHisGraceInColorado

I just had the sweetest comment from your daughter, and so I wanted to pop over here and see who her mom was and say hi---then I saw you were moving to our lovely state this year! That is great! Hope to get to know you a bit.

You have a lovely family!

Congrats on your husbands graduation!! Let me know if you need any info about Colorado, ok?
Nancy

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