Saturday

I spent the day cleaning out the den-- it's 10:38 pm and I feel great! I've gotten four bags of stuff to donate, plus 1 full garbage bag and one large plastic bag of stuff for a family friend having a baby... And maybe 3 bags of garbage cleaned out today.

I've posted up a ton of stuff on Ebay and Facebook and things are slowly being claimed and ready for new homes. It feels so good to rid us of extra "stuff" I can't wait to reorganize the den and really make it look fantastic.

I just cannot wait until summer to get things moving.

Today was definitely a difficult day with the girls-- both of them needing lots of attention and correcting. It's exhausting sometimes. When I get in a mind set to get something done it's difficult to step away from it and deal with the day to day stuff.

Last weekend I spent most of Saturday cleaning out our master closet- cleaned out almost 4 bags of clothing and such from there as well.

Tonight I really went after the overflooding of toys. The girls barely play with any of them anymore... so I took out all the baby toys, the bits and pieces, paper scraps, games that don't get touched, etc... and just got rid of them.. all the plastic things that are loved for 5 seconds and then pushed away, probably because they don't even know they are there.

We have a good size barbie collection, shop kins, Clara's cars and trucks and lots of coloring stuff, oh and you can't forget the Play Doh collection...

Besides that and the collection of babies and baby accessories, there isn't much else left. Things are being donated and we aren't buying anymore.

Speaking of not buying anymore.. I've cancelled most of my sub boxes in preparation of the summer and in prep for the new business I've gotten myself into.

Step Two

I'm excited. I'm excited because it's almost summer. I'm excited because I want to declutter my life. The girls are older and the amount of stuff they have has grown over the past 5 years... and it's time to trim it down. We don't need the endless amount of Little People Playsets or the Doc McStuffins Clinic that no one really plays with.

We don't need the outgrown shoes or the Thirty One bags I don't even look at anymore. It's time to donate, sell and just move on.

With life changing and big decisions being made, it's time to go into the next part of our life with a clean slate. Rid ourselves of things we've been holding onto for years, for really no reason. I don't need a pile of fabric, I'm never going to do anything with it.

I can always rebuild craft supplies and shoe collections. I need the space, I need the declutter.

I need to clean up and out!

Here's to a great reorganizing summer!

The First Step

It's only May of this month, and yet I feel like I am changing into a totally different person. I feel like I'm making changes for the better- figuring out who I am and what I want.

I always want to write, I want to put my thoughts on paper or screen I guess. It's time to stand up and let the world know who I am.

I want to be a good person and I try my best to be kind to everyone I come in contact with. Some days are more trying than others and some people are more difficult to connect to than others. Some people are just so full of negativity and they are just oozing unhappiness. Those are the people I want to stay away from. I don't need the toxic people in my life. For too long I marinated in the unhappiness.

Now it's time for me to push all the meaningless, tiny, pointless negativity and see through to the bright and sunny good things. Instead of focusing on the pouring rain all day, take a moment to relish in watching the rain while I read a Kindle book. Take a page from my kids and jump in puddles instead of getting upset the bottoms of my pants are wet.

I am almost 30 years old, why does turning 30 make me so nervous? What does 30 change? I can still love silly leggings and coloring in dirty word coloring books. I'll still love organizing my closets and eating spaghetti Os.

I have some things on the horizon that I want to achieve. It's time to be a good person, move past the anger and rage and unhappiness-- I'm going to shine for who I am.. and if that means throwing on my awesome new road map Lularoe Leggings and gray Irma tomorrow.. I'm going to do it!!

So basically this is documentation of my journey to find the happy me. And along the way I'll talk about my family, my sample sized addiction, what I get in the mail and my obsession with Lularoe.