I tend to be a messy person when it comes to my home. Its not layers of dirt and bugs messy, but it is cluttered and messy enough that most the time you would have to spend at least 20 minutes straightening a room before it’s ready to be vacuumed or wiped down. I would really really like for it to be clean, or at least straight enough that I didn’t have to tell people to watch their step when they come for an unannounced or sudden visit.
The last few weeks I’ve been making some progress. And I’ve even taken some before and after pictures of the areas I’ve been working on. The before pictures are pretty embarrassing. At some point though I’m gonna post them. I posted them on a forum that I am a part of online with some other ladies and found out as bad as my before pictures look, I was not alone. A few other women admitted their homes also often resembled mine. I don’t ever expect my home to look like a show home, and as long as we have little ones in the house I expect a few toys will be out of their box and there will always be some cleaning in the house somewhere that needs done.
I do think it is completely realistic for me to have our home reasonably straightened and organized. And when I have learned to manage this task better I’m going to post those before and after pictures. Some of you are going to be in shock that I could keep my home so messy and may even look down on me. But some of you are going to say, “If she can do it, I can too!” I’ve been devoting time in cleaning, reading about cleaning and organizing, and even praying and memorizing Bible verses to help me with this task. I am confident that God can help me and I will be able to overcome my problem of extreme messiness.