. . . of my ability to manage paperwork.
Not kidding. Not being cute or flippant. Totally mean it, have totally prayed for it, and promised God that if He came through, I would not forget where my help came from nor fail to give credit.
Because yeah, it’s that desperate. I am no star pupil in the housekeeping department, but the other kinds of messes I can more or less manage, if only spasmodically. Papers have me stumped. Totally blown away.
And yes, I am an accountant. I love love accounting theory. Give me some sordid out-of-balance problem, and I am all over it like a little financial P.I. Tell my you need xyz report from some bizarre, disobedient accounting software, and I will find a way to give you your data. I even — sit down for this — *enjoy* doing my taxes. In fact my tax file looks pretty good.
–> It’s all the other papers that are killing me.
So anyway, that’s what I’m praying for these days. And working on from my end. So far God has helped me move a few little rolling-hills at the foot of the mountain, which I take to be a good start. But I had to post here as part of the bargain. So that if one day I’m this super amazing organized lady with beautiful files and a shiny desk-top, you can remind me that it was through no talent of my own that I got to be that way.
Ah, we have the paperwork thing going on at our house. Mountains and mountains of it, on nearly every horizontal surface! Crazy!
One thing we just did that I am so dorkily thrilled about: we had an unused corner of our kitchen (blocked by garage door opening on one side, bathroom door on the other side; truly unusable space) and we installed those wall-mounted vertical letter bins on each corner, along with a double hook. So now each kid has a place for his backpack, jacket (eventually) and homework/paperwork. Forms and papers I need to sign are left out and the whole shebang is ready to go in the morning! It hasn’t solved everything, but it’s going to help a lot!
Hey Steph!
That is very cool.
I think my number one killer item is memorabilia. Just want to own a little Fitz family museum. Not realistic. But very time-intensive to sort through, and really we don’t have a resolution on what to do with it all, so it’s hard to know how to tackle.
And then of course all the junk I can’t be bothered with. That’s our other problem. Too busy doing other more interesting things.
Good to hear from you. Yay paperwork success.
Jen.