Clean your way to peace? Ohm.

While you’re waiting for your new child to come home, there are times when your mind just can’t shut down – at least mine doesn’t. I check email 50 times a day to see if anyone is sending me new information and just generally drive myself crazy. I spend time mulling over things I can’t change (like getting a government to hurry up for ME!) and since I can’t change them, it becomes time to change my “stinking thinking”.

Maybe you all are familiar with SHE’s and BO’s. A “SHE” is a side-tracked home executive and a “BO” is a “Born Organizer”. I’m a SHE, through and through. I have ADD and house cleaning doesn’t usually rank at the top of my list of to do items. I do like a clean house, but there are so many other things that seem so much more important! I tell you this so you’ll appreciate the irony in it.

So, one of those activities that can get your mind of your interminable wait, that is engaging, yet relatively mind-numbing is house cleaning! Deep-cleaning your house is something that is rewarding on many levels. It’s visually appealing, it’s comforting to throw out stuff (at least it is for me! My husband, the pack rat, makes me clean out his stuff – it took him 20 years to throw out technical textbooks that were outdated the year they were written). I do believe, though, that decluttering and cleaning is good for the soul – even for a “messie” like me.

When you have deep-cleaned your house (or even one room), you will likely have a good pile of “give-away” stuff. Have a great garage sale – use the proceeds to help fund your adoption. That makes it a win-win solution for everyone! Or, go ahead and donate to your local thrift shop. Or, take some with you as donations for folks in Africa – but don’t keep it around too long or you might be tempted to reclaim it!

So, clean your way to a peaceful heart and peaceful home – and then totally enjoy that “pitter-patter” and not-so-clean home when yhour child comes home.

Here are some of my favorite websites for home organization (oh, and if there is a book on organizing, I’m sure I’ve read it – they’re all on a bookshelf somewhere – and not together, either . . . Just not a born organizer.)

Fly Lady

Messies Anonymous

Sidetracked Home Executives

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