This weekend was a busy one for us. We started out by making plans for what we wanted to get done, but then had to change all of those plans due to an accounting error on my part. The error was minor, however, and just the result of my forgetting to deposit some checks I got, but it will be rectified by 6:00 p.m. and we'll be back to normal.
The change in plans was a blessing for us as it allowed MM and I to clean out and declutter our office. We share the guest bedroom and it was getting over-cluttered due to my businesses and general dumping of stuff. It's the one room of the house that could have qualified for an episode of hoarders. Our space is clean now and we're able to both work in peace.
It's amazing what a clean space can do for your work ethic, mind, and soul. I was able to actually sit at my desk and do my devotional yesterday afternoon. Hallelujah! That's been a long time coming. Of course, there's much more organizing to do, but at least my space is workable now. I should have taken before and after photos, but the before was far too embarrassing and the after far too anticlimactic if you don't know what to look for.
Bunny is peacefully sleeping in our master bedroom next to the office. I want so badly to get her napping and sleeping in her own room because I do see that MM and I really need our bed back, but I don't know if I'm strong enough. I tried this morning to get her to lay down and go to sleep in her crib, but her crying and intermittent "Mama"s were too much for me to take. I picked her up, and snuggled her to sleep in our bed....again. I will find the path to getting her in her own room, I just don't know how. That's one area where I struggle with feeling like a failure as a mother, but I know we will work through that in time.
And finally, the countdown has really begun. My last official day of work is THIS FRIDAY. For all intents and purposes, I will be retired come Monday morning. I am terrified, but excited. I look at it as a great adventure and the start of a beautiful growth in our family. MM is understandably nervous at the finances (well, who wouldn't be), but he's also ecstatic that we're realizing our goal of my being a stay-at-home wife and mother. God rocks. He made it happen.
In closing, I want to leave you with the verse that I wrote down from my devotional that is hanging from my freshly decluttered bulletin board right about my desk; "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it" -Proverbs 4:23, NIV. I'm going to do my best to live that verse today, and every day.
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Keep this in mind...she won't go to college still sleeping in your bed. She'll get there eventually mama!:-)
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