Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The Great Purge

I am enjoying the feeling of utter exaustion from last week only because of the great accomplishment. We finally purged the house.

We have had a month of busyness with painting the house, selling the truck, wrecking the car, buying the Envoy, and the normal demands of life. However, it was finally time to use my new-found clarity and sanity reclaimation for the betterment of my home.

We purged the house of all the trash, all the unnecessary things in storage, and ALL of the things I had collected to "borrow" from friends and family. The result? After three-and-a-half years of living in my beautiful home, it looks decluttered and organized (DISCLAIMER: I didn't claim that the laundry was done or that I have found the secret in a bottle to an immaculate house with two toddlers...I just said organized).

With several days until trash day, we have to become creative with the trash of days to come. I have purged so much trash!!! But, it feels like a great weight was lifted just in time for company to arrive. It was well worth the five nights of late nights and week of long days to accomplish the seemingly out of reach goal of taking the house back from the mes