Getting Organized

Mom is helping me get organized. The paperwork was getting unmanageable, piles of bills to be sorted and filed, receipts for gas & meals from our trips to Virginia, papers from the insurance company, medical monographs for information and notes of things to ask Dr. DaSilva. All of it in a big pile of "To be Filed."

We put together a binder, organized by date, pages for each trip with mileage and receipts stapled to the page. Bills and Explanation of Benefits all together, so now I can see if the insurance has paid, and what is still owed. Now I can FIND stuff!

It's a full-time job, keeping all of this straight. How do people do this and still manage to work, raise families, keep things semi-normal? I am so lucky that all I have to do is concentrate on getting well! I don't think I could do this and handle anything else right now, it's so overwhelming. Yet, so many women go through this alone, or do it and manage to keep all the balls juggling in the air at the same time. I just shake my head in admiration.

Mom has also been helping me get items organized and ready to sell on eBay, light things that are easy to package and mail. She catalogs them and alphabetizes them, and each morning I type up a master list with her additions. We work well in coordination with each other, if not actually "together."

Today, I feel the need to get festive for Christmas. We will trek off to the grocery for baking supplies (I've misplaced my powdered sugar) and bake cookies for friends. With carols playing in the background, 3 Netflix movies waiting to be watched, and the smell of holiday spices baking--that should be just about right!