I am Beyond .....

.... tired.
I have worked almost non-stop around the house since we got back from Dallas.  The need to purge and organize hits me about twice a year or so ..... and when it hits, I follow the hit.

We got back from Dallas on Thursday afternoon.  It was a great trip, except for the illness of Son #3, but thankfully it appeared to be only a 24 hour bug.
It was so great to spend the week with V, one of my oldest and best friends, who also happens to be a sorority sister.
We had a blast with her kids and Six Flags was awesome!!

Thursday night I had dinner with yet another sorority sister who was in town visiting a friend of hers.  It was so nice to see P (DM) and to spend a couple of hours with her and her friends and her daughter.
They've been college hunting and had visited the big B in Waco where Daughters 2 and 3 went.

Then Friday came and the spring cleaning demon took over my body.  I started in my closets and purged and purged and purged.  And then re-organized.  It was sweaty
work but I was glad when it was done.

After the closets I hit the study, which was a wreck because I had emptied out my office at work and just dumped everything in there.  And then closed the door.

Well, I hit it and I hit it hard.  Purged and purged and purged some more.  I spent about 5 hours in there and still didn't finish.  But by 9:00 or so I was spent.  So
I saved the rest for the next day.

Saturday dawned bright and beautiful.  I drank a up of coffee, read up on the news and then went back into the study.  I spent literally the entire day in there, purging some more and then re-organizing everything.  I had re-organized it somewhat after Jim died, to turn it into my study.  It was his totally when he was alive.  His cave.  He loved spending time in there ..... without company, most of the time.  He always told me
it was a lot of work to keep up with our family corporation ..... because it really required
the same amount of work sometimes to run a family of 8 and all of their bills, cars, tuitions,
etc.  It makes me tired to just think about it.

So I finally left the study, all spic and span and totally organized to my approval .... at 6:00 p.m.  I spent the rest of the night enjoying a glass of wine and watching that movie about the morning news show with Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton.  It was cute.
It was only 9:30 when it was over so I searched for another movie that I hadn't seen before .... when I really should have gone to bed.
I watched "The Edge" with Anthony Hopkins and a much younger, thinner Alec Baldwin.  Oh .... and with a humongous, evil, man-stalking, man eating Kodiak bear. He came into the movie when Alec, Anthony and a not-so-lucky bear-snack man survived a plane crash in the wilderness of Alaska.
I really needed to go to bed, but once the bear came into the picture (literally) it became very much like a train wreck.  I didn't want to watch but I couldn't stop myself.
I made sure all of my teddy bears were tucked away into cabinets and nowhere in sight.

Went to church today and had a great study/discussion in our Sunday School class.  We
always have great discussion.  It's a great group of people.  Then went to an even
better worship service where I just let go and praised God for .... pretty much everything.  It was wonderful.

I came home, changed clothes and then hit the kitchen.  Went through every drawer and every cabinet and purged, purged, purged.  I finally got rid of the bread machine that I haven't used in at least 5 years, give or take.
Then I re-organized the drawers and cabinets .... I have many more than I realized.

After that I hit the dining room cabinets and did the same thing in there.  I think I got rid of at least 15 flower vases.  Seriously.  Who in the heck needs 25 - 30 vases???  I had no idea I had that many because I know I purged some a few years ago.  I still have way too many, but they're of varying sizes, shapes and colors so I wanted
to keep a variety.  I'll still never use them all.  Especially since I don't have a husband who brings them home all of the time.  Like I used to.

After the dining room I approached the bar area and all of the drawers and cabinets there.  More purging, more organizing.  I had intended to do my master bathroom next, but by this time it was 6:00 and I was too pooped to do anything but fall into a recliner.

This is where I need to pause and tell my 3 children who live not-too-far-away that they'd
better come home and go through all of this stuff before I donate it.  So, D #2, D #3 and S #1 ..... if I were you I'd find some time on a weekend soon and get down here.  You won't be disappointed.  First come, gets the bread machine!
:)

Both boys asked me why I was clearing everything out .... I wonder if they're afraid I'll hit their bedrooms tomorrow when they go back to school?!  :)
I told them it's just something I do a few times a year, when the mood strikes and it had struck.  I called it spring cleaning.

Now I'm sitting here with my computer, watching the second Wall Street movie with Son #3.  Oh, and enjoying another (not another TODAY) glass of wine.  Hopefully I'll be asleep around 10:00 because 6:30 comes very early in the a.m.
I've had such a difficult time going to sleep early enough and then am having to drag myself out of bed around 8:00 ..... or later.  I hate that.  I want to start my day earlier.  So that's what I'm going to work on this week.
Well, that and the wonderful offer I received a week or so ago.

God is good .... even in the purging and organizing and sweating work of keeping a home.
As I purged I thanked Him for our home and for all of the wonderful things that I had once needed and used (with a household of 8).  Things that I no longer have the need for with only 3 people in the house.  Hopefully someone else will get much use out of most of that stuff.

I hope you all had a great weekend and a good spring break, if you had it last week.  If you are now approaching your week off .... enjoy.  Every moment.
And say, "I love you." as often as you can.

Happy Sunday, Peeps.
:)