Great Household Reorganization Project of 2012!

Nesting urges are kicking in, I guess, but also just the frustrations of trying to keep the house tidy and clean when there is too much stuff floating around without homes. Peg Bracken advice to the random housekeeper is to "act immediately on whatever housewifely impulses come your way," so here we go.

Aims:

• Declutter/purge
• Assign everything homes
• Address inadequacies in our furnishings (need more seating in living room, like, yesterday)
• Better prepared environment for the kiddos
• Finally unpack and hang our pictures and artwork

Starting in the master bedroom because it needs the least work and will give me a quick and easy feeling of accomplishment and productivity. The main tasks here are to sort through my clothes and tidy the closets, add some decorations and a crucifix, as well as give it a decent cleaning. I also think I want to move the chest with the linens into the guest room and bring the kids' clothes dresser in here, in which case I need to sort through their clothes and do the big seasonal switch. If I get super-ambitious, maybe even add a Montessori-style self-care corner?