I went to a ladies’ meeting recently, and the featured speaker was a gifted gal who helps folks organize, based on their temperament.  That line piqued my interest and I made a point to be there.

 This is my daily battle.  A messy table.  And countertops.  And any other available horizontal surface!  At times we’ve had to eat on ‘t.v.’ trays because all my books, papers, files, reminders, sticky notes, coupons, curriculum, teacher guides, recipes, napkins scrawled with spontaneous thoughts, yada, yada, yada is strewn about both the kitchen and dining room tables.  This is how I produce massive amounts of work - spread out everywhere.  I tend to operate like this everywhere I go.  The last church I shared at, laughed and joked about my ‘Target bag full of stuff’ that I carried everywhere I went (along with my briefcase and purse!).  Some of you can’t relate to this way of operating because you are neat nicks.  I used to wish I could be just like you when I grew up - but now that I’m enlightened, I just praise God for diversity!  The professional organizer set me free as she explained that no, I wasn’t a disorganized slob…I was simply the temperament type who happened to need some private ‘crazy space’ to spread out.  That’s how I organize - if I stuff it in a drawer or file box - chances are I’ll forget it!

Imagine my glee at finding this amazing 3-tiered rolling solid metal shelving at Costco for about $39.00.  (Gregory spied it out–talk about an orderly guy.) As you can see below, I load it up from top to bottom - sort of a high-rise of useful stuff - and then I roll it out of sight into a cubby closet, shut the door and voila! Surfaces clean and ready for living life.  Perhaps this idea, or at least its concept, will help you to function more effectively at your house.

and I’ve missed hangin’ out here on the blog!  Before I knew it, several days had flown by while I’d been re-sharpening my nutrition skills and reminding myself of what I already knew, but sort of forgot, or got lazy or busy or just shifted into auto-pilot.  You know how life just takes over sometimes…but it’s time to change our ways, shift gears and adjust things in the kitchen.  So I’ve been planning meals and menus, shopping for the right ingredients and generally ‘upping our nutrition game’ here on the home front.  I’ll be sharing more with you along the way, and handing you some helpful tools that I trust will encourage you, too, as you endeavor to build healthy lives at home…