It’s amazing how quickly insomnia kicks in for me when I’m pregnant. Some women sleep like a baby. This baby resembles more of a newborn – up every two hours, or days and nights switched. As you can see, it isn’t even 5am yet. I have been up since three.

The liberating thought occurred to me after subscribing to FlyLady.net — I really do have too much clutter in my life, and it’s making me frustrated and angry. Tonight for the first time in nearly a month, I cleaned my sink and kitchen counter and actually threw away a lot of clutter. It felt great. I plan to do this with each room. Clutter, by the way, has an interesting etymology. Go ahead. Click the link.

The thought also occurred to me that while there are volumes about organization, there are little organizers that really meet the needs of the modern woman. Flylady has a nice one, but it isn’t pretty. So, as I create an organizer for myself, I will consider the rest of Christian women along with it. It will contain encouraging verses, a place for a brief journal/devotion entry (schedule it in!), prayer requests and praises, then organizing cues and time slots and it will be customizable, and a weekly menu plan with shopping list — each day with a box for the menu. I envision the beginning to have an overall goals worksheet for each room and then each daily page with a corresponding number or color to allow a person to write in the need for that zone. It will also include cues for spending time with children and teaching them God’s word. All the things that are areas of frustration for me (because of clutter), and that I know are also frustrating to other women.

There. The thought has been written down. In summary: There is room in the market for a Life Organizer for Christian Women — broken down by yearly goals, monthly goals, weekly goals, and daily goals. It needs to be pretty enough to sit in view. And, it needs to have a journaling feel to it – daily spaces like, “Today I am entrusting the following things to the Lord___________” and “Today, I am rejoicing in the Lord because ____________”

I’m yawning.

An anecdote: Yesterday morning, while I was yawning, Thomas said to me, “Mom, if you’re tired, we can go to grandma’s house and you can lay down on her bed.” What a sweetie pie!

Good night…er…. good morning?