This year has flown by..and other things..

Wow! It's Christmas time! Where in the world did this year go!
With the birth of our 3rd child 7 months ago, I guess things just started happening extremely fast.. Lets see. There was her Birth. Then the kids starting school. They both played soccer, so every single saturday was spent at the ball fields! Then as soon as they finished soccer, Cheerleading and Basketball started up!
This is what I've waited my entire life for! Ball field mom! :) But wow, with a new baby, its a lot HARDER than I ever thought it was.
Thankfully, I have a Baby K'tan to wear her with! If I didnt have that. I'd probably be miserable! I have seriously gotten my moneys worth with that!!!!!


Amongst other things!

I realised something pretty important yesterday....
I get so upset when I walk into my childrens bedrooms and I see that it looks like WWIII has broken out! Clothes, Toys, Games, Coloring books, etc...E V E R Y W H E R E !!!!!!

Then I walk into their closet and WOW!!!! What in the heck has happened? Its even worse, but in a smaller space!! I get so upset when I see this.
So I either make them clean it, or wait till they are at school and I clean it!

So yesterday, I cleaned my oldest childs closet and bedroom! Its spotless. Doesnt even look like a child lives in that room anymore!! I can't tell you how many scraps of paper that I threw away, broken toys, crayons. etc!

I found socks that Have been missing for MONTHS!!! After it was all said and done, and I was exhausted.. THe room looks GREAT!
Then I come into my own room, to put some clothes away and my closet actually looks WORSE than my kids closets! :(

I have SOOO MANY CLOTHES! and embarassing as it sounds. I still have some stuff packed in containers that are labled "After Baby"!
I have come to a decision that I have, without a doubt. HAVE TO GET RID OF SOME OF THESE CLOTHES!!!! I will donate, instead of selling them. Because, pretty much all my clothes are good quality and most are name brand! They are all in pretty decent, if not "like new" condition. So I will donate them to various places!
In doing this. I am also, going to quit stuffing clothes into my dresser drawer, but be more like a friend of mine that HANGS all our her clothes up. (with the exception of certain items).

I feel that cleaning out my closet, will be a lot like Cleaning up my body/heart/soul! Not that My body/heart/soul is dirty of anything...but its a lot in the same. It takes time. It can't be done all in one day, and it takes prayer!
Decluttering is good for the mind.body.spirit.soul! and I intend to declutter like crazy! Of course, this will have to wait until after Christmas, as there is just way to much going on at the moment, but I will get it done.

this is not a new years resolutions, as those never work out. Instead its a promise to myself.my family. my house!

A clean house/with as least amount of clutter as possible is also a healthy house.

I vow to hang up more of my clothes (and my husbands and kids) so that we are no longer the wrinkled family....TO leave as little as possible to cram into dresser drawers (Ok, lets face it) when your closet is overflowing and you can't close your drawers, YOU'VE GOT TOO MANY CLOTHES.. -I definately fall into this!

Am I the only one?

It seems after my 2nd child was born 6 years ago, and more intensified now that the 3rd one is here, but my emotions are NUTS!

I mean, I know its normal to get teary eyed at somethings but seriously, a commercial on tv... Maybe its just the mom in me.

Get this,
Taking the kids to school, yesterday morning, The song "Mary did you know?" came on. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas music, and I've heard this song a million times!(Its one of my faves) but I got serious chills listening to it!
Can you imagine, Mary...Sitting there holding baby Jesus, and kissing him on the fore head, and in the song it says "When you kissed your little baby, you kissed the face of God!" How Amazing is that!
"The son that you delivered, would soon deliver you...Mary did you know?"

I mean, SERIOUS CHILLS!
Then the other night, while watching my 7 year old son, practice for his Christmas Choir Special at church, (I help with the 5th and 6th graders, who were are in it too) I look up to see my little boy, in the balcony and he looks down at me, and sees me and grins really big and waves, as they are singing and I got all teary eyed!
I actually had to stop myself from crying right there at Practice but I was filled with such joy that all these YOUNG PEOPLE are choosing to sing and praise My GOD!
Its awesome watching each of them and how different they are now, compared to what they were in August when Choir started. The excitement of Christmas is filling each of them with such joy. Maybe its because school will be out soon, or because presents will soon be opened...Either way, Each of their faces lit up as they were singing some of these songs and I was there to witness such talent that they have..
and I get teary eyed!

Watching a commercial on TV, sometimes I'll just nearly start crying. If it has ANYTHING at all to do with Children/parents/grandparents it'll do it to me!

They can be the sappiest ones ever. Watching a movie will do it to me now.

Growing up, My brothers and I use to laugh at my mom when this would happen to her and I was so happy that I didnt get all emotional at every single movie like my mom did, but now....Its me its happening to.