15-minute Decluttering

I just decluttered the cupboards in the bathroom and our medicine basket. Very very old stuff was found. Lots of those smelly bath bombs and hand lotion that you get as gifts and never ever use.

Can we all make a pact never to gift these things to other people - we all know they end up in the back of the bathroom cupboard.

On a mission to try and declutter some stuff from the house in preparation for moving house with a baby.

So I am trying the 15-minute declutter every day theory.

Tomorrow is the mail shelf which is full of paid or unpaid bills - really I don't know.....

Sorry for the absence.....

My world at the moment is completely consumed with myself.
I am consumed by......

• Working out easier ways to walk without weeing myself
• Trying to roll over in bed
• How I am going to bend over to pick up the many things that are lying on my floor
• Elevating my extremely puffy feet
• Attending midwife appointments, baby classes, capsule fittings
• Trying to make or buy everyone's birthday presents for April & May
• Getting baby clothes washed and dried in a part of the world where it has been raining for 2 weeks solid
• Freezing meals
• Making sure I have enough chocolate and ice in the house to last me through each day
• Feeling everything that my body does and every move that Paddy makes and thinking "am I in labour?"

You know normal first baby 3 week from delivering jitters.

I realise I haven't shared with you my chemical free house that I pledged to achieve in February and happily did. And told you about my March one small change which I am working on. These things take a distant second to the every important things on the list.

I can't believe I have become so involved in myself in such a short time.... I will be back with a more positive chat but for now it is 3:30am and I have been up for hours so we might have to leave the positive chat for another day xoxo

My first day as a housewife

I finished work on Friday and am now officially on maternity leave. I should feel good. I should feel free. I should feel relieved of pressure.

Instead I feel a bit slack. I feel like I am not contributing. I feel bad that I just sent my husband to work. I feel like I need to clean the entire house to prove that I actually did something today.

I need your help to clear this craziness and reassure me that it is ok. That I am nearly 36 weeks pregnant and need to rest. That being at home doesn't equal being lazy.

I think today is about taking a step back and letting all of these emotions pass over me. I think tomorrow maybe I might be able to reconcile this one.

But for now I have set myself the enormous task of getting through the even more enormous pile of washing and doing all of this on a rainy day.
That's enough for today I think.....