Crystal over at Biblical Womanhood has started a “Spring Cleaning for Normal People” challenge. She’s taking it at a nice pace – a week to do each assignment. Frankly that is a great pace for me right now. We’ve got so much on our plate right now, but I am desperate to get this place into better shape.
Well today I made some real progress. I wish that I had taken some pictures. I promise to take some before and after pictures for the upcoming challenges.
Today, I worked on decluttering the surfaces in the main section of my home (not the bedrooms or the office). This included:
- Recycling many of the magazines and catalogs in my overflowing bathroom reading basket
- Putting the end of the Christmas decorations up in the attic
- Cleaning off my desk in the family room
- Putting the stray medicine bottles (that littered our notch in the kitchen) back into the medicine chest
- Dead-heading the plants/flowers that are in my bay windows
- Putting books back on the appropriate shelves
- Packing up unloved knick-knacks
- Hanging pictures (I just got a beautiful print of “The Angelus” by Millet)
It’s amazing what a difference it made. My plan is to continue the process in the bedrooms and the office. Boy, oh boy, the office is a mess. Those pictures will be worth looking at when I conquer that disaster. 
