Queen of Notebooks

My husband has called me "the queen of notebooks" because to me there is something promising about a blank notebook. All of that lovely blank paper waiting for me to fill it gives me a little thrill. I could write anything in there! I am a sucker for a good notebook. I especially like the smaller ones that fit in my purse. I do buy a lot of notebooks, and I currently have about twenty that are in various stages of being filled up.

My notebooks contain my dreams. My dreams of finally being organized again, of all those wonderful homeschooling plans I want to implement, of healthy menu plans for my family, of cleaning routines that will make keeping house more routine and easier, of places I want to go and things I want to see, books I want to read, music I want to play.

The problem is that I am WAY better at planning than I am at implementing my plans. This is one of the things about myself that I do not like, and I want to change. It is sad to think of all of my little notebooks full of unrealized dreams. I am going to give my little notebooks the dignity they deserve. One at a time, I am going to actually DO what I have planned to do in each of my little notebooks. And I am starting with one of the ones I dread the most but need the most - organizing my home.

So wish me luck, keep me in your prayers, and please post your best cleaning and organizing tips, because I need all the help I can get.