Good idea, Eliza! I've been meaning to invite a friend over for lunch, and I know if I do I'll be racing around picking up and vacuuming before she gets here. There is always the disclaimer that "my house is a work in progress," but it doesn't need to be a dusty work zone.

I'm making time for reading for an hour or so in the evening, but now I need to back it up a bit because I'm going to bed a bit later than I want. I created a reading zone that I also want to refine. It's a comfortable chair and lamp setup, but I need to move the chair and lamp to a more logical looking place. Right now it's smack in the middle of the front room.

I have wrapped and bagged a few mugs to take to work today, and there are a couple of others that my daughter needs to claim if she still wants them. I've been looking at some types of china online and will keep an eye out at estate sales so I can replace my much-dissipated Corelle set. They may be hard to break, but when they do, they shatter, and over time we've lost several pieces. I can move to a grownup set of china now, if I can find a nice looking set at a moderate price. If I bring in a new set I'll take out the old ones, make it an even exchange.   

I have to do my income taxes. The file and the blank forms are now on my dining room table where I need to make myself sit down and do the work. Something I should do now so I'm not up against the last-minute deadline in a few weeks. This is the first year in many I haven't had to fill out the FAFSA forms (for kids going to college).

Today is the first day of spring, calendar-wise, and it is a lovely sunny day here in Texas. My heavy-lifting declutter work will wait till the weekend. How does spring look for the rest of you? Sounds like Eliza had a great plan to get a jump on it. Charmion, have you conquered the dust?

SRS