Operation: Clear the Clutter

After putting things like house projects on the back burner for months on end, I'm beginning to get antsy when I look around yet again. I think we're going to finally do what we should have done five years ago and hire people to clean the house. But before we do that, the first order of business is to clear out the clutter. It's hard to believe the amount of crap we have in this house for just 2.5 people. Especially considering we moved from a 1300 square foot condo. Our crap has multiplied. It's burying us.

Today I was given the gift of having a large portion of the day to be home alone. Dylan took Gavin to my parents' house so he and my dad could watch the Masters and my mom could get her much needed Gavin snuggles. And here I am. It's glorious, and I've decided we're doing this all the time from now on. So, I began the de-cluttering process. I have a feeling it will be a work in progress. It's all about the way you view things. If it's not pretty nor useful, then off it goes. I am bad about making up stupid excuses to keep things, so our house will have to get a run-through two or three times before it'll truly be ready for professional cleaners.

But it's not just that. I was looking around the family room and all the things that must go once Gavin begins to crawl, which will probably happen in the next couple of weeks (longer if we're lucky). And then it made me totally re-do all of our walls and everything in the family room and parts of the kitchen in my head. So I've been gathering a bunch of ideas on Houzz and my mental picture of everything is starting to come together. Re-decorating is so much fun, but for some reason I cannot stand the part that involves actually hanging things on the wall. Often because it requires tools or hardware that are unfamiliar to me, and I just want to do everything by myself. Anyhow, I'll keep you abreast of my progress. I know the suspense will be eating at you until then. Okay, gotta go. I've got magazines that need to be recycling and a desk which needs clearing.