Ok, I am not really one to do spring cleaning. I try to keep up through out the year, but there are times things just gotta go and a big overhaul is in order! I LOVE flylady's system during the summer, but during the school year it is too overwhelming. The kids all have chores that rotate monthly, but right now, there are lots of areas that need MY attention!

So today I began to take over my home and give some things a new home. First, I tackled the master closet - got rid of a big ole bag of clothes (mostly his - mine were purged just a few months ago!) Sheesh, the man still has more clothes than I do - how did this happen? There is something terribly wrong in the universe - me thinks I need some shopping money to bring our closet into proper balance . Not really, I don't even wear all the clothes I kept, though I am sure my friends would appreciate it if I did, they are surely getting tired of my "uniform" of comfy shorts or jeans and a tshirt!!

The quest continued into the bathroom, boy oh boy! We have four cats, one inside only (and he is not too partial to the litter box- even though it is clean ) and three in and out cats. We have open shelving in the bathroom and the litterbox is on the floor below the shelves. Until today the linens were on the last 2 shelves and occasionally the cats would knock a pillow case or blanket off the shelf and it would land in front of or *shudder* IN their box. NO MORE! I have divided up the sheets and given each bedroom the sheets needed for the beds in that room - which has freed up 2 shelves! Now all of our bathroom items are easy to access and organized neatly. Even the drawers! It feels sooo good!

My next mission is to reorganize our school books, everything is so cluttered and we are only in week 5! We have too many books - is that possible? Let me rephrase, we have too many books to keep all of them available in our 1300sqft house! I am going to let the kids pick 5-6 of their favorites to keep on the open shelves and redo where we keep our school books. Would you like before and after pics? Of course you would, I am off to take my before pics and get to work....