Martha Stewart to the Rescue

My sister, Lizann, flew out from NYC to help us all get through my 3rd chemo round. She arrived on Thursday, April 30, expecting to bask in the Colorado sunshine, drink smoothies and hop from football practice to soccer practice.

Instead, we mostly had to bundle up with every Soccer Mom blanket and coat as we shivered through drizzly games -- one in Fort Collins on Saturday and another in Colorado Springs on Sunday.

In between games, Lizann transformed herself into my personal Martha Stewart, tackling three key uncluttering projects:

1. 1. Bathroom transformation: discarding 47 pounds of half used lotions, cosmetics and various other treasures that had accumulated in the bathroom cabinets, drawers and every other possible storage surface. Thanks to her totally unattached, ruthless (some might say cruel) attitude about purging all but the most valuable items from our bathroom, we now have a bathroom that could be featured on one of those home makeover shows.
2. Magazine destacking: stacks and stacks of magazines sorted, tossed, recycled and removed forever...to make room for the dozen new ones that knock at our door each week.
3. Winter/summer clothes and shoes closet rotation: always a task but easier with Lizann's NYC apartment "it's got to be incredibly special to store" perspective.

All this was actually fun, though my 25% energy level the week after chemo made it pretty tiring -- but energizing too to have these projects out of the way. Perfect prep for the summer ahead.