OCD--yes that is me

I know I drive my family crazy with my obsessive compulsiveness and I see those characteristics I have passed on to my daughter. The older she gets the more she becomes more like her mother with those OCD tendencies. Bless her heart, what have I done to that child.

Some things drive me crazy, one being everything must be in its place all the time. Everything has a home, if not then it better get a home quickly or it is out of here. I cannot stand clutter and the last two years I have not been able to stay on top of things the way I need too with a baby in the house. I stood all I could stand and in the last few weeks I decided to do something about it, that being I made a list of everything that needed to be done then I got busy going from room to room cleaning every drawer and closet and anything that was sitting still. The job is almost complete. The garbage man may quit his job after I get finished. There have been many bags and piles of shredded paper and junk for him to pick up every Thursday. I am close to being finished. The major task to finish now is my office which looks like a war zone because that is where everything went until I had time to go through and throw it away. Where did all this stuff come from? We have only been living here two years. Oh my goodness, the things you collect when you have a baby in the house.

I know God made me the way He did, OCD and all but He also convicts when the things of the world begin crowding my heart. I really believe that is what I was allowing to happen and God began convicting me to clean out and de-clutter. That is what I am doing and it has felt so good and freeing to do that.