Yesterday we decided to refinish our front door. While we were at Lowe's buying supplies, we priced new front doors. While it would be nice to pick out a new door that was more to our style and liking, our current door is turning out pretty well. Dh is doing a good job. We also bought a closet shelf/rod for DD's closet. It works well, and now DD can reach all of her own clothes in her closet. It also looks more organized, with clothes hanging and sweaters folded up, and shoes all lined up on the bottom. I hope it will help her feel less cluttered where her closet is concerned. Sometimes I think we need to help her develop systems that make it easy to clean up and stay less cluttered. If something is easy to put away, we're more likely to do it, right?

Actually, decluttering and finding ways to clean quickly are a couple of things I've been working on over the past several months. I am surrounded by too much stuff, and it gets to be overwhelming sometimes. Our neighbors across the street are having a garage sale next weekend, so I have been gathering up things to put out as well. Slowly I am decluttering my own possessions, but there are still areas of the house that seem to become messy too easily, too quickly. It's not a matter of needing more space - it's a matter of needing a place for everything, and to not have so many *things* in the first place!!