Spring cleaning...

I couldn't take it any longer... Saturday I HAD to clean out our pantry! I was gross! It needed a good wipe down, clean out, sorting and organizing! Badly! I wish my niece were here, she is the pantry organizing queen and I needed someone like that around. It has been such a painful process. Not exciting and revitalizing like I thought at all.

The teenager took everything out for me... no before shots, it was really that bad!!

I didn't think I was going to fall into my "Type A" personality over the unload, but when he got done and every surface in my kitchen and dining room was completely cluttered. I became type A woman again! Uggg! I hate it when that happens.

It wouldn't have been a huge problem if I would have been able to get it all done in one day. But that didn't happen... I went into type A overdrive and decided since everything was out of the panty, it might be the only time ever I had to paint the inside of it.

Again, not a big deal except, that took me all afternoon Saturday, I was at church meetings from 9am - 530pm on Sunday... so nothing got done and I wasn't able to finish painting until Monday.

Then it needed time to dry. So for 4 days my kitchen was out of commission. That has been rough.

Now everything I want to go back in the pantry is back in there and sort of orderly (I hate big ol' deep shelves)... and my kitchen and dining room is still a disaster area. I am not sure what to do with some "stuff" that came out, that doesn't belong back in there. So it is like I just opened a big ol' can of worms and it's growing amd I can't get it done and over with! Eeeeekkkkk! It hasn't been the good clean nice refreshing new feeling I had hoped for when I started.

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The good news is... my spices are in alphbetical order now... that is cool! And there is no grody syrup or soy sauce dripped on the shelves anymore, or dog food and cereal spilt on the floor amongst grubby boxes of misc jars I kept meaning to unload. That part is really good!

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I thought pushing myself to finish a project that had been on my mind for a long time would be a good thing. I thought just making time to do it was a good way to push myself. But sometimes it is better to wait for a good opportunity for these things and plan them out.

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Bottom line, it is done... kind of. And even though my strong silent mysterious man never understood why I would paint the inside of a "closet"... I am glad I did.