The journey to a clean and organized home continues

Today is Day 9 of my FlyLady baby steps.  The sink is still shining and the clutter is starting to leave the house.  Over the weekend I cleared out a closet in the kitchen that has been bothering me for months.  Ok, maybe for a year or longer as more and more stuff that didn't have a home found a temporary residence in the closet.  I also cleaned out a corner in the kitchen that had become a landing area for more clutter.  Yay me!  Sure feels good to look at these areas now.  I just hope my husband and son will also work to keep these spaces from becoming re-cluttered.

This is what cleaning used to mean to me.  LOL!

Imperfectly yours,
  Traci

Housework...Ugh

This is the attitude I'm trying to change.  :)

Imperfectly yours,
  Traci

Still taking my baby steps

I've made it through day 4 of the FlyLady system and my sink is still shining and now I've got post-it notes up in my bathroom and kitchen that remind me (and some to my family) to:

• get dressed to the shoes
• put out a hot spot
• put dirty dishes in the dishwasher
• put clean dishes away
• put away things you take out
• clean up a mess you make
• keep the sink shining/wipe it out

I have to admit, it does feel good doing a little bit at a time to make our house a home again...as opposed to the junkyard it currently feels like.  I do smile when I walk by the sink and see it shining back at me and it's nice to start seeing some of our kitchen countertops again.  But, I do feel some apprehension when I think of adding more items to the morning and evening routines.  Guess I just need to focus on what's in front of me now.  Yeah, that's a helluva lot easier to say than do for me.

Today I'm also starting Simply 101's week long decluttering class "Help! I don't know where to begin!". Should be interesting!

Oh yeah, I also signed up for the free 12 week shape up challenge at IdealShape.com.  Have to work on making myself healthier and more fit too.  The challenge starts April 1.

Ready for another imperfect day!

Imperfectly yours,
 Traci

Well, here I am...

So, for a year or so I've been doing a fabulous job of pinning all sorts of cleaning, decluttering, and organizing ideas on Pinterest.  However, I've also done a fabulous job of doing nothing with the information contained within those pins.  I've reached my breaking point and it' time to do something, so on Sunday, I started doing the FlyLady's system to have a decluttered and (easy to keep) clean home.   Right now we live in CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome), as FlyLady likes to call it. 

So here I am on Day 3.  So far, I'm keeping up with the system using her Baby Steps.  I've tried her system in the past and didn't keep up with it long enough to see the results.  Mostly due to the fact that I didn't follow the instructions of the system.  Instead of taking baby steps, I went in whole hog and tried to get to the beautiful point that the folks who have been doing the system for long enough to not be living in CHAOS.  The house didn't get in this pig sty condition in one weekend, it surely won't come out of it within a weekend.  But I can make progress little by little with a little bit of effort each day, I can slowly make a difference.

Imperfectly yours,
  Traci