A Half Hour a Day

Well, for someone who loves organization, I’m a terrible organizer.  I tend to let things pile up until the task becomes so overwhelming that I don’t know where to begin, so things just pile up more.  Paperwork is my nemesis.  Receipts, school papers, junkmail…it’s incredible how these things pile up into mountains. 

I’ve attempted over the years to organize.  I hate having piles all over the house, so I bought a basket to capture all the various paperwork.  Well, then the basket looked like this.

So I bought another set of baskets, this time to sort each child’s paperwork as it came in, figuring I would be able to keep up with it then.  Well, now that set of baskets looks like this.

So here I am on this rainy, cold day:

with not only full baskets, but piles that look like this.

You will not see me again today…while the nap happens, the decluttering must happen.  I’ve made a pot of coffee, I have my Lord of the Rings Trilogy cued up, and I’m tackling my nemesis. 

*taking*a*deep*breath*

I will win.