How?

How do you start when the mess is so great that you can't face it? This is how Stranger and I have been feeling about our basement and garage this last year.

Last spring before our gutters were on and before the yard was graded all the rain water and mud ran into our basement. Not only that but it was full of trash that the builders left us to clean up. Aren't they so thoughtful? I have a feeling that they don't have any better manners in their own homes so I'll forgive them.

Stranger and Victor have recently spent several days cleaning out the mess and it is now clean, clean, clean! Do you have any idea how excited I am that we can now move all the junk from the garage down there? I'll tell you. I'm excited!

(Don't even talk to me about just getting rid of all the junk. That's a whole different project!)

But first of all we got started with the guest room slash junk room. (Is it sad when you have containers for containers? What else am I going to do with all those lids I never use?)

Victor carried all the heavy boxes down stairs and I got to do my organizing thing. Have I told you lately how nice it is to have a big strong nine year old around the house? It's nice.

What do you do with a clean room after you've vacuumed up all the spiders?

Fill it up again of course.

Now instead of a junk room we have the beginnings of a play room for the girls. It's a little roomier than their walk-in closet that I have yet to finish.

But that's my point anyway. We just keep working on things a little bit at a time and hopefully our house will be finished before it's time to redo all of it again.

How are your organizing projects going this week?