If you’ve ever heard me present or have one of my CD’s on organizing or time management you’ve heard me say that many people become disorganized due to life’s situations, such as someone becoming ill, people moving in or out or being on travel. Well this past two weeks I’ve had two out of three happen; hubbie was hospitalized for almost a week and home on disability and now my daughter and three children started moving in yesterday. Talk about chaos and change! 

I think I’m handling it all pretty well. The medical supplies – a lot! Two big boxes of gauzes, tape, wrap, saline, IV stand and even antibiotic bags in the frig. (had to make a space for those). This will be our life for at least the next 6 weeks. I created a little “nook” in the dressing room for the boxes and in the bathroom I have a bin holding the items I need daily to cleanse and dress my hubbie’s big toe. You see he has a diabetic ulcer and we are aggressively working at saving his toe (ouch…don’t want to lose the toe!) through IV antibiotics so he has two tubes inserted into his chest, one for the antibiotics and one to draw blood. This is prone to infection so we need to keep a close watch on it! 

Now in walks my beautiful daughter whom has finally decided to dissolve her marriage and needs a place to live and my three beautiful grandchildren (11, 9 and 4). So we’ve cleared out my teaching and healing rooms (use to be the rec room in the basement) and we started setting up “house” last night. We decided we could only fit one bed, two dressers, armoire, couch, TV and a shoe rack in this area. I also had screens to create privacy when needed. 

The toy box has made its way into my living room and we have another box trunk we want the kids to put their shoes and book bags into. We just don’t know where to locate this at this moment. The house is filling up! She also has a water cooler jug thingy and we’ll put that by the recycling center in the kitchen later today. 

Then the outdoor stuff starts to come over: bikes, scooters, picnic table, grill, fire pit, gym set and sand box. Much of my stuff from the rooms has made its way into my office…I can barely walk around in here; however later today I’ll get all that rearranged and give everything a new home. It will be a little tight yet livable. 

Oh and I almost forgot the two parrots and a kitten are also coming to stay…our dog Brunno will love this! When you life gets turned upside down, pour a glass of wine and toast to a new life and new beginnings – that’s all we can do. And look at the good….. 

I now have two to three assistant cooks and cleaners! And this weekend I’ll be teaching the two oldest grandchildren how to do some of my “simple” computer work. Click here, click there! I have company on my walks with Brunno and Brunno has a lot more “lovings and scratches”. I have more hugs and kisses in the morning and evening! 

We are blessed! We are alive! And those piles, bags and boxes will get dealt with over time and life will never be right side up until we all settle in, adjust our chore board and learn to live with all the new until the next “roller coaster” ride comes to town!