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I had a sort of “break through” yesterday while sitting on the can.  I was thinking about the housework and wondering how in the hell should we start to get it all in order. So I asked myself “where do I start?!” and a little voice answered “calm down. just start at the beginning.”

Yes!! The Beginning!!

But what’s the “beginning”? Could it mean we should clean house from top to bottom? Could it mean we should start with the dirtiest thing first, in our case the floor? Could it mean we should start with the biggest problem area first? I thought about it but I couldn’t decide.

I finally just decided to think of whatever made more sense to me and just go with it. So I decided that The Beginning meant to deal with the big items first. Big meaning physically big - like furniture. Like bicycles in the middle of the living room. Like the huge couch by the front door, and so on.

So, today I folded up Jada’s tent. It’s been up since before she was two years old. My god it’s been a long time and it was in the foyer too. Then I took all the ornaments off the christmas tree and I asked Dennis to take it out tonight. So there went two large things that were taking up a lot of space in this very cluttered house.

It’s a start.