Let the organizing begin!

I made all of the trips mentioned in the previous email, so I am now ready to find a spot for everything and put everything in its spot. When I called my husband to let him know how much I was about to spend, he rightfully asked, "what are you buying?". My response of storage did not seem to justify the hundreds of dolllars I was about to spend. Being the wonderful man he is, he simply said, if this is what you need to make this happen, go for it. So now, I have everything I need for phase one of organization implementation!!!!

My husband asked me to wait until Feb 3 to install portions of my storage solution. Bear in mind that we are traveling on Feb 11th. That would basically leave no weekends to fill the storage solution before travelling. He thought that this would be okay. I agreed to wait (we have friends coming to town that weekend who are good with hammers and levels). I felt very stressed and stalled about his decision to wait. My friend Jennifer happened to call in the midst of my stress, she simply stated, "Kelly, you cannot wait that long". I said you are right! I called him back and told him that he would have to get help this weekend to make it happen. He got help and it will be installed this weekend! Gotta love those friends who see clearly in your chaous.

On the way to a basketball game yesterday, my 7 year old daughter asked me if I was stressed. (She was going to be dancing at halftime.) I said yes. We had just received word that our visa date was scheduled for Feb 14th, and it was time to start thinking about traveling. Thoughts of high priced tickets swirled around in my head. Anyway, my 6 year old son asked me to explain what stress was. I tried several different methods. He kept saying that I wasn't making sense and that what I was saying did not make sense. After contemplation, I had to agree with him, he was absolutely correct. Stress is a false emotion, created and felt for no rational reason. He does not have ANY iota of an idea of what stress is. After I thought some more about it, I decided to work towards eliminating the feeling of stress from my life. Stress is a condition created by unnessessary judgement. Its funny how that word judgement has sooo many consequences. We learn not to judge people, what about circumstances, tasks, bank account balances, debt ratio. Who am I to judge any of those things? I give them false value, in and of themselves, they really are completely meaningless.

Okay....I'm off to do some more organizing. This was a nice break!

Did I mention how hard it is to spend money for things that you need when plane tickets have not been purchased yet? ooohhhhhhhh wait, the phone is ringing, its the travel agent. Let's get those tickets started! Gotta go!!!

Court Date successful, the first time!

Well, we made it through court the very first time. I feel blessed and fortunate. So after months of waiting for it to happen...here we are and my house is not prepared. I didn't want to do anything too soon, therefore I did nothing. Not very logical. I heard all of the warnings from everyone, but I did not head them. So, we have a four bedroom house and it will be filled with our 5 children. You know what that means. Processes, processes, processes.....in other words a trip to Lowes and The Container Store. Decisions to be made, where should everyone sleep, fighting over the cool beds versus just the normal bunk bed.

Stress, stress, stresss.

A trip to the gym is needed to relieve this tension. I'm an everydayer now. I don't know what I would do without that daily delight.

My kids are completely oblivious to my stress, they just play Wii and go on as usual. They are not looking forward to going through all of the clothes, out with the old. At what point in life do the easy tasks become things that we judge as difficult. I continue to marvel each day about what I can learn from my children. Most things are just things that need to be done. Without judgement, it is so much easier.

So, in that light. I am going to go walk the dog, goto the gym, goto lowes to pickup, then to the container store to pickup, then home to rearrange beds and move dressers and put in all my new storage systems. Just simple things on the to do list. I am thankful for the internet and the ability to not have to do the actual shopping with three kids in tow. Thank you God for helpful people, blessings and the internet.

I am fortunate, blessed and prosperous.