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 [...]]]>

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.