Home from the holidays

It is now January and with the craziness of the holidays over, I can now turn my attention to organization – one of my favorite hobbies. As much as I like organization, I do have a tendency towards pack-rattery (but much less than my husband thankfully!) so I have adopted a new mantra (borrowed a bit from my friend Amy) – “If I don’t love it, it goes”.  The only caveat to that is that it needs to be eminently useful – in other words, not something that I will save for 5 years that ‘might’ be useful in that time.  So far I have divested my closet of almost 2/3 of the contents, the linen closet, parts of my office and I am about to tackle the kitchen….(who really needs 6 sets of salt and pepper shakers!!) 

I don’t start school again till January 26^th so I have a bit of time to get some things accomplished besides the daily maintenance of laundry, dishes, etc.   While in Colorado over Christmas I went through some of my old stuff at my Dad’s house and brought back with me the majority of pictures from growing up.  I so far have put about 600 pictures in albums and still have about 2/3 to go.  I have been putting them in new albums so that they will be preserved a bit better than the crumbling ones from which they originated.  I haven’t seen some of these pictures in 20 years and it has been very fun to take a memory stroll and share with Reeves some of my childhood.  I hope to start posting some select treasures - all the good, bad and ugly here, for all to share in the comedy. Stay tuned…..