Fall Homemaking

In my last post, I shared how I was falling short in some areas. Homemaking has taken a BIG hit. Seems like  that is always the way. When life slaps us, we tend to do only the necessities, and leave everything else to the wayside. Once I started to do some Fall decorating, I realized just how lax I had become.

Ok, maybe not THAT lax.....more like..... 

 As I began to pull out the decorations, I saw areas that had been neglected. Like the formal dining room. Yes....laundry on the dining room table. It is clean, but does NOT belong there. Never in the 13 years that I have lived here have I used that formal room as part of the laundry room, until the last several months. 

 If you look in that far back corner, you will see baskets stacked on each other...all laundry. 

The desk in the eating area and the shelf above it, were in a terrible state!

Remember that hermit crab Zach won?? His home has been on that shelf for the last month! And look at the junk!

Even the little scarecrow didn't hide the mess.....toothpaste and old mail still glared back at me!

Baby steps....which is code for "the clothes are off the table, but the baskets are still in the dining room".

I did spend some time on that desk and shelf today and it looks MUCH better.

 I didn't have a before pic of the desk, but it was covered in junk mail, and dust! Some other fall touches around my house.....

 Hoping to make strides each day to getting things back to a system of homemaking that keeps me from falling short!