I’m super tired right now. I really need to write my posts earlier, especially on Monday’s when I have my art class. I’m just feeling bad. I don’t want to say it, but I feel like I’m catching a cold. If saying it makes it so, I’ll take it back – lol! My son has an awful cough and runny nose and now his ear is bugging him. Poor little man! He barely got over that nasty flu-bug and bam! he’s sick again. I think that the clutter and dust in our house doesn’t help. I have a mile long to-do list and I rarely reach the bottom or finish even half of it! There’s just so so much that needs to be done and I just can’t manage. It’s so so frustrating!! Especially when my inability to function 100% affects my kids health. It fills me with guilt. I need one of those tv declutter makeover things. Just come in, with a big group, and get it done!! I know that’s not about to happen and, to tell you the truth, I don’t want it to happen that way anyway. I’ve been reading the book called, “The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up,  The Japanese Art Of Decluttering And Organizing”, by Marie Kondo. It’s really readable and clear. There’s something about it that appeals to me or speaks to me. I don’t really know how to put it. It also is realistic, in the amount of time it should take to declutter an entire house. Not like some of those, “one weekend and your house is completely clutter-free and organized!!!” Those people haven’t been in my house – lol!! There is no way that we can just clear out years of built-up “stuff” in a couple days. And, I don’t want to do it that fast (well, with my health that’s never going to happen, regardless!!) What I mean is, I need to actually go through things. My hubby seems to think that we can just get a dumpster and clear everything out. However, I know that’s super unrealistic and it wouldn’t feel good to do that. I need to go through things piece by piece, bag by bag, and get it done. Don’t get me wrong, I sometimes get thr urge to just toss everything out at random, but I know, deep down, that that would leave me feeling empty and upset. I am willing to get rid of a lot of things, I just need to be the one deciding what to do with my own stuff! So the goal is to finish reading the book and then go through my stuff following her directions. With a realistic understanding that it’s not going to be done overnight and, despite the criticism I feel I get regarding this issue, but with the intention of going through it all and ending with a home I can love. Just to repeat, in-case someone misheard me, ending with a home that I can love!! No apologies. I’ve run out of the energy to apologize about the way I live. I have to go one day at a time, and that’s the best I can do right now!!

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“Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!!