Decluttering.............

Matthew and I have been trying to take control of the house this year. LOL As in decluttering what we don't want, need, and don't love and make room for the things that we do love and add to the peace of the house. This started with the biggest project in the house.....the sunroom. Before starting on the sunroom, me and my big mouth, decided we should clean out a HUGE closet upstairs and just pile it all in that one room and clean it all out at once. That was January..........it is now March.........and the sunroom, is still no cleaned out completely. We have made progress, and it is looking better. We took 25 boxes of stuff to the Thrift Shop by the time we had cleaned out just part of that room. We probably have 5 more to donate and several to store.

This weekend, I am hoping to get some more progress done on the decluttering of the home. Matthew has already told me there is no way he is working on that room this weekend. He just can't make himself do it. LOL And I have to agree with him. I have a few other projects I want done first. One being the living room. We are cleaning off the shelves (book shelves built into the wall) of Noah's toys and moving them to the closet of the toy/tv room where he likes to play. We will keep some puzzles and his library of books in the living room. But I am taking back the living room for adults. LOL So far I have a box of books to be donated to the Thrift store and the bookshelves look SO MUCH better.

The other project for this weekend was to clean out the toys in Noah's room. His birthday is coming up in April, and it is time for cleaning out the old and making room for the new. Some toys are being saved back for Joshua to grow into. Some toys that Noah never plays with are going to be donated to the Thrift Shop. I thought it would take FOREVER to get this done. Nope.....I was ruthless, and it took me a total of 20 minutes! I have a large black lawn and leaf bag of toys for the Thrift Shop (all are in good shape and none with missing pieces or broken), and a box of toys that are soon to be Joshua's when he grows into them. The room looks bigger somehow. LOL And it looks like a "big boys" room more now than a toddler/little boys room. Makes me a little sad. My boy will be 5 in April......so I better get used to it!!!

Well, as always.....I sit down to blog and Little Bit, AKA Baby Joshua, who is now 5 months old, stops giggling at the TV from the comfort of his Bumbo seat and starts crying for my attention. Oh it's ok.....I don't mind. I love being a mom. But don't get to sit still very often while doing it. LOL