One Step Closer...Hopefully

    One thing that I cannot say about myself at the moment is that I'm organized.  It's been a while since I've been able to say such a thing.  And I don't like it.  Before I got married, I thought myself very organized.  I would clean my room, organize, then reorganize my closet until I thought it was the most functional.  I don't know that my husband would ever believe it.  Because, I have turned into a pile-maker.  The mail, is always in one giant pile.  Our office is...piles of....lots of stuff.  The laundry...sometimes piles of clean clothes, sometimes not.  But, I know where everything is, most of the time.  But, I am tired of sifting through the piles to find something.  I came to this realization, I think, last August.  And that's when it started.  I started in our back closet.  De-junked it and put things in containers and boxes.  Moved through the upstairs and had it pretty well done.  I don't always do so well at keeping it up, but I feel better about it than I did before.  I think we did the playroom right after Christmas, which was awesome.  But then, it was time for the office.  I'm still on it.  I've been reading websites, blogs, books, everything, to see what people say about organizing and decluttering your life.  This, I feel has become quite necessary this year.  Two kids really threw me off last year and I just felt it reeling out of control.   Then Phil got called to be the ward clerk, then I got called to be the relief society secretary. So, organization has become really important to me recently and I've got to get a handle on it.
    I realized that I have too much, stuff, and it's everywhere.  So, I've gone through and cleaned out our filing systems, thrown a whole bunch of stuff out, and you'd never know it.  So, I'm putting my 'stuff' in one binder.  And I'm calling it my 'command center.'  It's going to be where I keep track of losing weight, projects that I want to finish, educational stuff I do with the kids, a bill payment schedule and tracker, a to-do list, goals, things to do for my calling, and everything and anything else that I try to keep track of, but all in ONE place!  I'm excited about it.  Still consolidating everything, but I think it's coming along nicely.

And so I've decided to make a 'Family Command Center'.  This is where the laminated weekly menu and grocery list is, a cleaning schedule, our family calendar, a Family Home Evening Schedule, a Babysitters Central folder, and it's still being worked on.  Eventually it will also have our family emergency plan and a few other things in it.  Hopefully this will help.  It's making me feel a little more organized, and loving it!