Chaos

I cannot live in chaos...I thought I could, but I can't.  Well I could if it only lasted a few days...but this has been a while.  I LOVE where we will be when it is done, but it is overwhelming to me to keep living in our house with stuff all over.

When Jared and I first got married, everything had a place and you used it and then put it back.  Next we started slowly leaving a few things out here and there...now...everything is everywhere and I can't stand it!

I really like everything to be in it's place and put away...my hubby, however, is not this way.  This creates a serious problem because it creates a couple different situation:
1. Me picking up everything - which makes me feel like he is being rude (even though I know it's not intentional - just the way he is)
2. Me asking him constantly to pick up things - which makes me feel like a nag - not good
3. Me just living with it - which eventually leads me to anxiety, laziness, grumpy, unhappy, feeling blue

Now I will give a disclaimer - Jared is great at cleaning if he is asked to or if he gets on a role...which happens maybe once every 2-3 months - it just doesn't bother him like it does me.

We are trying to start a couple new things to remedy this problem.  Every night we have 10 minutes where we pick up the house - it's amazing what this does - probably one of my favorite things we have started doing.  Also we have a cleaning schedule of what needs to get done weekly, monthly, etc.

Our trim and doors are now all up and just need to be painted one final time - so as soon as that is done we can stop using that as an excuse for why our house is out of control!

Pictures - Brief Update

Wow ok, so again I wrote about 20 blog posts in my mind over the past month but they never managed to make it onto the acutal blog.  Ok quick life update:

•  the new trim is going up as we speak - so far I LOVE it!  
• Jared has left again for another week of work in October but it was amazing and nothing broke while he was gone! YAY! 
• Duke and Tenely went trick o treating last week for halloween (Tenely was a chick and Duke a Turtle)
• My work continues to be busy which is AWESOME
• Tenley is now 5 months and eats cereal and veggies.  She is much more purposeful in her movements and talks to herself a lot.
• We took Tenley and Duke to Robinette's for donuts!

Other then those things life has just been busy as normal.  We keep waiting for it to slow down but it hasn't yet.  We are very much looking forward to the holidays.  Jared is going to run in the Detroit Turkey Trot with his brothers on Thanksgiving so that will be fun.  And the only reason some of you check this blog...pictures...here they come:

At Robinette's having fun with Dad

Shopping with Mom

Robinette's with Duke

Her First Toy Catalog....she LOVED it!

5 Months!

Halloween

Bath Time

Cereal...Yumm

My Family