My home is a bit of a scene at the moment. My aunt and cousin came from Chicago yesterday for an 11th hour maternity leave visit and helping session. They are both wonderfully lovely, beautiful, highly competent individuals and my expectations for this visit are equally spectacular. In anticipation of the visit, I’ve compiled a list of about 1000 ways they can transform my life in their two day visit. After yesterday, I now have a list of 2000 beginning with putting my home back together again.

For almost any activity, one can find an expert to support their method or approach to a task. Having just watched “Sharon the Hoarder” and Oprah’s team of experts the previous day, we chose the comprehensive organizational strategy of take everything out of the closets and make 4 piles approach–Keep, Donate to Goodwill, Donate to my pregnant friend (in lieu of Sell), and Trash. That Sharon had a huge lawn for sorting, 100 helpers and Oprah’s show behind her did not deter us. It should have.

Of course my home is in disarray at the moment. Bags of things to be donated along with piles and boxes of random stuff that I hauled out of the back of the closet, baby’s diaper leaked so lots of new laundry, hungry kids, Saturday activities, grumpy husband…glad I had that moment of peace yesterday. Gotta go. Diane