A Light at the End of the Tunnel

I'm so excited! Ever since we moved into our home last April, we haven't even unpacked completely - the garage is full of boxes, and thing basically sit where they were sat. It's hard to clean and organize around things this way, and I've been here long enough that I've lost my perspective and I feel overwhelmed. Enter my friend, Bazie. She's my aide, and she comes for 2 hours every week day to help with some things I cannot do. So I finally got up the gumption to ask her to abandon those things and just help me with ideas for one room at a time. I was so grateful when she said yes! She suggested we go through and make a list of what we want to do in each room. This is something I've done before, but I don't have the ideas that truly inspire me to do the work. Bazie was a fount of ideas! We are going to start on some things tomorrow, and it will help me have the oomph to clean what I can, as we're decorating (I always told my girls, "We're not cleaning - we're making it pretty." That was sooo much more motivating! Also, when she can, Haley (my youngest daughter) is coming down here for a day to help me clean. I'm so excited for that, because all of my daughters are MASTER cleaners! Yay! I will be sure and take before and after pictures, so that you can see the changes. And I plan on incorporating all of your good ideas, too, so don't be surprised if you see that I've put them to good use. :) Update on Resolutions: I've really been trying to keep them, because I picked simple ones that I truly wanted to follow. I must say, the "experiment" method I was inspired to think of has been a major influence in any success I've experienced. I've been better about blood sugar testing, although I could improve on it still, and we've had several family home evenings (would have been more, but there were unforseen circumstances - need to have a backup plan). I haven't done so well on writing regular snail-mail letters. Still want to. I'll have to check what the other one was - how's that for goal keeping? I can't even remember what it was! Anyway, that's my progress thus far. Wish me luck on the house, 'cause I'll need it! PS The other resolution was to create glorious windowboxes for our porch railings - and I've been researching that, so I'm fine on that front. Naturally, I picked most of my resolutions from things I enjoy doing (tee hee).