A Day With Purpose (or 60)

I read people's facebook statuses all the time that go something like this: 'Productive Day. Cleaned all the closets, washed, folded, and put away all laundry, scrubbed bathrooms, painted bedroom, vacuumed car, polished hardwood, ahhh, what to do tomorrow?'

I get a wild idea and tell myself that I could do all that in a day too if I wanted.

Then I laugh so hard that I wet myself.

I'm not an organized person by nature. I'm more, shall we say, creative. I fly by the seat of my pants in most situations and would rather paint a room than do a load of laundry. Colors and decorating makes me giddy, but organizing a room makes me nauseas.

But it's spring. I have new life, new energy. And for however long it lasts, I want to be purposeful with how I use it. Once June arrives, we will be at the pool daily, swim team in the early morning and playing in the afternoon. Swim meets are at night several times a week, and who wants to clean when the garden is calling anyway?

I have April and I have May.

It's time to be purposeful, intentional.

60 days full of purpose, of a plan. For the non-scheduler, the non-planner, this is going to be a challenge. I tend to be, um, a little, tiny bit...lazy...let's call it relaxed. But for the next two months, I have a (I shudder to say the word) plan.

I think I vomited a little just writing that, but I'm sticking to it, daggone it.

My house, room by room, needs to be cleaned, cleared, dusted, organized. The closets, the laundry room, the garage...oh, the garage. Things need to be thrown away, donated, burned.

I have clothes and toys by the caseful that I've hung onto in the hopes of having another child. Yeah, clearly that ain't happenin'. I've held onto items that I wanted to ebay, to craigslist. Those items sit and take up an entire closet in a house that has a total of four closets. Jon and I don't have a closet, but ebay stuff does? No more!

The bonfire has already been started with crap from the shed. Looks like I better stock up on marshmallows over the next 60 days. It's going to be quite smoky around here for a while.

Intentional with my time. Hmmm, what a concept.