My needs: Prioritizing better use of my time. I have a full-time job that I do at home, plus attempting to school the boys and well, my house has suffered. See original post here and the only update here. When the house is like this, working is difficult (mentally because it's so cluttered) and making sure I have the next days school plans in place usually never happens. I wanted to find Joshua's MUS book for him to use over the weekend and didn't find it until yesterday - Monday. That's just one example!!

Reducing the clutter is the first big step in getting our house ready to sell. While we do enjoy the roominess of this house and the location (isn't location everything to a realtor?), our goal is to for me to only work part-time and eventual not at all. I've reviewed the list of items I thought we should do before putting it on the market, and well, some of them simply aren't that important. Getting the clutter out and slapping some paint on some of the walls, and then hopefully our realtor will bring out that For Sale sign. Then the fun really begins!!

Praise: I've recently decided to not take two medications prescribed by my doctor. One was with her knowledge, the other wasn't. Depending on results from blood work, I may end up back on the one she doesn't know I stopped. But my praise is this ~ since being off of these two medications, I haven't been as tired as I have that last year. Rarely am I taking an afternoon nap. Rarely am I feeling the need to "escape" to the bed. And I am sleeping better at night. So overall this is a MAJOR PRAISE for me as I am starting to feel like ME ME ME again.