Day 23

Apparently today is "Anti-procrastination Day" so before I began my control journal, I went into the master and did a fifteen minute declutter.  I have had the kids' school year memory books on my floor by the bed for the better part of a year (I'm guessing). Since I tidied out the closet yesterday and found that nifty fabric box, I discovered I had a place to put all four of the binders and then placed it up on the top shelf of the closet. And since they are now in said nifty box, there will be a place to put momentos if I run out plastic inserts or whatever I need to put new things in - everything in one place.

I also tidied up a small pile of my own school books and took them to the bookshelf and filed the papers that I'd brought into my room from the kitchen during a declutter there.  Voila.  Fifteen minutes and my side of the bedroom floor is actually passable (and I forgot to take a before picture - but I highly doubt you think it was already tidy if you've been reading this the whole time).

Again, this was done in the AM and I'm totally giving that credit.  Plus my apparent acceptance that fifteen minutes is good enough - I don't feel that way all the time, certainly, but I also want to put my control journal together and decided to do fifteen minutes only so that I could get started on that.  This post is going to take longer to complete (not that it will be noticeable) because I'm going to start it now.

Heading to FlyLady's site. Woohoo! And twenty minutes later I have had a lightbulb moment.  While entering in the home blessing (what some of us may remember as Saturday chores) I realized that Fridays would work better for me.  Then, as I was writing down the home blessing to-do list, I realized MY KIDS CAN HELP!  So I will change the sheets, and mop the kitchen and bathroom floors and each of the three older ones can take turns with vacuuming, dusting and mirrors because they're home at 12:30 every Friday! Super!! Sometimes I hate how easy this whole planning ahead thing seems.

FlyLady only publishes one month's worth of zones at a time, so I will have to check back to get September.  Still, I can look at my new journal and see which zone we are in.  It's not like there's fifty-two zones either; we will be back to each one and that is what will make the true difference.  I am not optimistic about getting into my own dresser this week (was going to say drawers... hope you see the humour), but at the same time I think I've danced around them all I can with only two sessions so maybe I will.  I am going to continue with the control journal and write again tomorrow.  Happy organizing!