Kerry from Home Sweet Organized Home left a comment yesterday about how I work and I just loved it.  It’s based on the adorable kid’s book If you Give a Moose a Muffin… “If you give Marian a morning, she’s going to go to the attic. When she goes to the attic she’s going to find a rug.  Finding the rug will remind her that she needs one in her bedroom.  When the rug goes in the bedroom, she is reminded that the room needed a little something . . . “ And that’s exactly how I work. So, if you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been rearranging the furniture in my family room to give myself a bit of a fresh start.  Since I moved the table out of the kitchen, that brought the kitchen into the shuffling.  I also removed the shutter that’s been leaning against the side of the

It was one of those days when I woke up ready to get things done.  I cleaned out the coat closet before I took the boys to school and didn’t eat a bite until my “late brunch” at 1:30 pm.  I wasn’t joking around.  (That’s not normal for me, by the way.  I’m a big fan of breakfast.) I’ve been wanting to clean out the attic space under the eaves in the guest room for weeks, so I started on that once the boys were at school.  Well, I cleaned out the built-in bench “cubbie” in the home office first, but then I started upstairs.  I actually had to clean up the guest room as well, since it had become a dumping ground for the window unit air conditioners and cast-off furniture, pillows and rugs.  I had a big pile of trash out on the curb, some things set aside