Cleaning with a Mess
Our house has been in a constant state of disarray, and I have been in a fairly constant state of frenzy. Even as I write this very delayed blog -- my mind is racing through all the things I hope to accomplish tonight. The task that brought this post to the forefront is moving four of the bookshelves scattered through our house to our new home office. I need to clean off the shelves to move them and there is no reason to put them all back if there are some I can do without. A quick glance around the living room and the mess is easy to see: paintings that were sealed awaiting a new home on a wall, totes of movies to be donated, overflowing bookshelves, and the ever-present baskets of clean laundry - waiting for closet space. A small house and an abundance of blessings means organization is a high priority. The thing is I have always found organizing to be a messy task. Whenever I need to organize something I make a "clean" mess. This is a mess of piles and don...