I’ve started working upstairs. I have the hallway almost completely cleared and ready to start switching two bedrooms. Then start decluttering and packing the bedrooms so that things can be moved easier. I can’t wait to have this project done and organized to see how lovely the two rooms will be. I will eventually get pictures posted of the journey to getting the house decluttered, organized, some areas remodeled and cleaned.

A few weeks ago my child, me and my husband all came down with like a cold/cough. It started with my child, then a couple days later, I started getting a sore throat and runny nose and then coughing. A day or two later, my husband came down with the same thing, but he was worse than the rest of us. We all had a doctor’s appointment and the doctor said that he needed to be checked out at the hospital. The hospital kept him for a few days and that was a bit rough because our child could not go up and see him because of the regulations for the pandemic. Which, by the way, gets me, because the hospital would allow me to let my child sit in the waiting area of the emergency room or the main lobby of the hospital, by herself at the age of 11 while I sit my husband in the emergency room or in his room a few floors up. They have lost their minds. I don’t know how long I would be with my husband, a couple of hours at least; and to leave her alone that long in a public place?! They have another thing coming.

Anyway, back to the original point. As my husband was in the hospital my daughter still had school to do and there was house work that still needed to be done. This is while I am still sick and coughing. However, I didn’t get much done around the house. I spent most of my time trying to get through helping my daughter with her school work and then getting better with my coughing.

Since I have started decluttering, when we become ill or life just happens, something interrupts our daily life, I have noticed that the house does not throw up and get out of control like it has in the past. It’s a lot more manageable when we are able to get back on track. It has taken me a very long time to get just to this hopeful point in my life. Literally about most of my life, if not all of my life. This has taken me only a little over a year to get to this point of seeing the light at the end of the messy, cluttered, only a path through the house, tunnel. It is a wonderful feeling.

When my husband came home from the hospital it has been easier not to have a victim mentality of “No one is helping me” and “I have to take care of everyone myself and the house”. That is a rough road to travel and I have traveled it for a very, very long time, about 13 almost 14 years.

Once I found out that I clean and organize differently than others and I have my own way and style of doing things, that has taken a huge load off my mind and paralysis has eased quite a bit. It comes up ever so often, but not as much as it used to. I have always been the type of I can do anything that anyone else can do I just do it differently or it might take me longer than others. That has been true in decluttering and organizing my house, but with the training I have, I am pleased with the results that I have accomplished and I would love to help others that are going through the same things I have. That is what Uncluttered Lanes is all about. With that, everyone have a great day.