The mess is still driving me crazy!!

So today at my mother's group we had a speaker called Valerie Childs who is the serene, calm, reassuring voice and face of New Way Life and Health Coaching here on Vancouver Island. She spoke a little about the type of reading I have been doing regarding "mindfulness" - in order to reduce anxiety and stress in our lives. She asked us to focus on a problem we might be encountering at the moment and then to come up with some answers that might solve our problems. We were to recognise only the things that we could control in our lives and not to try and change the things that we infact have no control over. I.e to look inward not outwards!

So with this under my bulging belt I decided to make a start on the ever growing state of my house! Mess has followed me my whole life - I have always lived like a bit of a pig I'm afraid. It started with my own small bedroom when I was growing up - followed me to college (the cleaning ladies would hijack my room once a month as I would refuse to let them in due to complete shame), she then came a knocking at the door of my first flat with my husband and so on and so on. The problem with this way of living is that it really does affect my day to day and is beginning to affect my wee boy. I am forever being hit on the head by something or other when I open a cupboard, or spend far too many hours looking for the scissors I just put down in my studio or tripping, stepping, bumping into things that just should not be there. My wee boy is lucky enough to have a playroom, but since Christmas I haven't tidied in there and his floor was covered with all manner of broken and bashed toys as he surfed over the top to reach a new one. SO today I thought enough is enough - WE are going to tidy and you are not going to live like the pig that is your dear mother. SO we tidied and organised together whistling while we worked - and ta daaaaaaa - we had one clean, organised playroom and the boy can learn to play in his room without breaking an arm. See how he enjoys that clean floor........









































So one room down and soooo much more to do.....