Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Setting Things Straight

I fear I may have misled some of you who know me solely from the great and wonderful world of blogging. When I say my house is a mess and I feel as though I am drowning, it is my own somewhat exaggerated way of coping. You may even step into my house someday and say, "Woman, what is your problem?! Your house is lived in, what do you expect?" The thing is, my house is lived in 24/7, so nothing we clean stays neat for longer than 10 minutes. Rewind the clock 25 years and you would have found the rim of my toilet bowl sparkling, dustless furniture, and a lintless carpet. "For everything a place and everything in its place." Few items were ever lost, I knew where everything was, only my toddler son's face was dirty, the house was spotless. (See # 15) Enter 6 more children, several pets, a decision to homeschool, and my husband's homebased business. I have fought valiently to preserve my sanity. I have thrown, tossed, bagged and burned. I have endeavored to keep clutter from overtaking necessity and found it is a never ending battle. Sometimes I get tired. Yesterday the knot in the end of my rope came untied and the beads were crashing to the ground. Today is another day, the storm clouds are rolling in from the west bringing some much needed rain, and I plan to attack my dresser drawers which are in dire need of relief. Maybe I'll finally be able to put all my clothes away!

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  1. You should take a little vacation. Hop on a plane and come see me and your friends...

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  2. Okay! messyage received. :)
    But Martha, you don't have seven kids at home now, I know two are married, and one is in Minasoota.
    Oh, duh!! Hannah, Nate, Ben, James, then Troy and the two girls. Oh, and grandson. Two dogs and three cats. Hummm. Well, there ya are!

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  3. Annie, I will give that some serious consideration. Are you and your mom going to Nova Scotia?

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  4. I can so relate to yesterday's and today's posts. Yes, "it is a never ending battle," but we just keep plugging away at it! It must be the time of year... I cleaned out my sock drawer yesterday, and another drawer just this morning! Eventually, I MUST tackle the computer room/office.

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  5. We are both trying to accomplish some of the same things this week like putting clean clothes away. I have heaps of clean clothes toppling over everwhere! Yikes!

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  6. Mom is going up the 5th of May...and staying till the 13th or so. She told me to plan to go up there July or August...so right now the plan is July or August...(she's trying not to overwhelm gramanita with us all being there at once) you are always welcome to come stay with us...we'd be more than glad to have you!

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  7. I can sympathize somewhat, but not totally since I only have 2 kids here and you have so many more. It still gets messy though, and I still feel the need to clean out.

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  8. Annie, you are a sweetheart!

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  9. I am glad you feel better today ;-)

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  10. Would you like the house fairy to come for a visit??? ;)

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  11. Shelly, you make me laugh!

    But then again, if I knew she was coming...

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