Purging Process

Last night, I got one step closer to a simple home. I spent about an hour cleaning out the downstairs medicine cabinet, organizing Isa's craft stuff, and beginning to clean the foyer closet. I also rewrote our to do list for this weekend. If we do it all, I'm going to be uber stoked! If we do the entire list, I do believe our main floor will be done. Done. Done. Entirely done and down to bare minimum for us.

Recently, since beginning this project, I have seen awesome improvements in our living room, dining room, and kitchen (the 3 rooms we have really tackled thus far). The kids, through strict adult supervision, are really doing well at putting toys away when they are done playing with them. I am "training" my hubby to clean up his mess as he prepares food, to take out the trash when it's full (not overflowing), and to pick up as he goes along. We also have began (like two nights ago) to keep the sink empty by rinsing and loading the dishwasher as we go. Teamwork has really proven to make it nice so that it's not dedicating all of our time to cleaning, but able to spend 30 minutes cleaning as a family then having all night to spend together (instead of how it was before of mom cleaning all night and not getting to spend any time with the family, but dad and kids being lazy and not doing anything)...okay, well maybe it's a winning situation for me, but I think that everyone else agrees that it's not too horrible.

I'm really hoping that this can be something to stick to us.

And, by eliminating all the "stuff" around us, we are not only able to have more freetime, but we have less distractions. Stupid, meaningless distractions. We kept what is important to us. That's all. More time for friends. More time for reading. More time for board games. More time to talk and communicate. More time to grow our family as a family of God.

I'm so excited!