{Day 19} Make Home a Haven--Week 3

So it's week three of the Making Your Home a Haven Challenge and we've hit a major speedbump in the peace and tranquility of our household.  Wee-one accepted gummy candy at church Sunday so we're dealing with the fall-out from the resultant pyroclastic cloud this week.  To the point that I'm debating whether or not to struggle with him at Cub Scouts this week.

Anyway, the prompt for this week of the challenge is to

List a few of the spots in your home that make you visually stressed because of all the clutter.Now go buy something for that spot – like a basket to put it all in! Work on cleaning up clutter – throw things away and encourage the children and your hubby to do the same in their bedrooms or offices or work areas this week. While you’re at it – clean up some clutter in your spiritual life. What gets in the way of your peace spiritually?

My list you ask?  Besides the entirety of our home and property???  ;) 

We have a few perpetual spots right now, some because it's the nature of the beast, some because we haven't determined what to do with the stuff that has been uprooted from the rearranging of life and living.  The "beast" spots are the mantle, the hearth, and the crap-counter.  The uprooted collections are two plant tables that harbor mish-mosh plastic boxes we no longer use; the decrepit glider with a bag of borrowed baby clothes, the borrowed infant seat and spare base, and an empty storage box; the pile of boxes that are not housed in the 5x5 expedit; and the box of my childhood stuffies stacked with a bag for donation.

I intend to tackle the hearth--it will likely take all week due to how I have to do in bits and stages.  There are two purchases I need to start researching for it.  One is a hearth rug to protect the floor beyond the hearth, the other is a receptacle for the newspaper pile that is nicer than the U-Haul box that they currently reside in.

As for the spiritual aspect, stay tuned for a new category here in the next few weeks.  But to answer the question posed--what gets in the way of your peace spiritually--I'd have to say sugar.

http://womenlivingwell.org/category/homemaking/making-your-home-a-haven-challenge/