Last night I realised September is fast approaching and along with that for our family comes a never ending parade of birthdays, celebrations, end of year events and of course Christmas.
Richard calls September grasshopper month. It's his birthday and father's day and the footy finals - so that means for him a whole heap of celebrating and collecting his reward for working hard - he says. We are also celebrating my grandfather's 80th this September.
This year it's even more meaningful as halfway through it will mark one year since diagnosis. Time for me has been passing in a blur- days meld into one another with a seemingless endless rounds of doctors and procedures and waiting waiting waiting. For the next few months I am just healing. Very little Dr intervention. Hallelujah. The September onwards will be vastly different from the worry of last year and with the decluttering of my schedule, I want to find a new norm around home as well.
Things have been left slide and I have lost track of routines. I often find it's the little things that make the biggest difference. We can spend 15 minutes hunting for a pair of scissors. Drives me nuts. I know we have 500 pairs. So with great frustration I wander the house and gather all the pairs of scissors and place them in a jar. It takes 5 minutes. The next time we need scissors they are easily found and I think why didn't I do that before? The third drawer in the kitchen is jam packed with lunch wraps and brown paper bags and garbage bags so crammed in that it takes forever to open the drawer and then close it - and I can never find the baking paper. To sort it would take probably 10 minutes tops.
In light of that I'm introducing {September Sort It}
It's the perfect time of year - not too hot not too cold - to get it sorted.
I'm writing a list of 30 must do things.
Some take 5 minutes some will take longer.
By the end of September they will all be done and we will zoom into the next few months more sorted. I love the thought of it.
I have started my list ( 25 things and counting) but I want to refine it a bit.
Image from © Lime Lane Photography
Thank you to Kellie for her free image for my little graphic - I'll just convert that over or actually have a handy little helper covert it for me so you can share it on your blog if you like.
Here is my start ...
1. Wind cotton to spools
- I have this great big tangled mess of cottons - I have teh spools I just need to sit and do
2. Set up insert bag for my bags
- Margie gave me this cool insert bag that you put all your stuff in then when you change handbags you just lift it out and pop it into the handbag - simple and clever - have I used it ? Nope - so at the moment my card wallet with all my loyalty cards is somewhere - safe. Not be used for loyalties.
3. Donate magazines
- Enough said.
4. Move cookbooks to the expediate in the family room
- Currently our cookbooks reside in the bookcase in the bedroom, in the girls rooms, in the lounge room and under the table in a basket in the family room. I am constantly looking in 5 different spots for one book. Silly when there is space for them all to be together in the family room
5. Book Apple store workshops
- When I first converted to Apple I completed a whole heap of workshops but haven't for ages. I now have Lion and Icloud and I know I am not using it to potential. Must book some workshops.
By the end of the week I will finalise my list then it will be time to start. Some days I might do more than one thing. I'll document it somehow even if it's just crossing it off the list - or snapping it for instagram or if it's really fun or monumental then I'll blog it.
So what say you ? Want to join me in September get it sorted? I'd love to have some company.
