I want to clean the house!!!!!!!

For about maybe 2 weeks now, I have been meaning to clean the house, hmm.... by clean I mean declutter. Well now that our yaya is with us here in Qatar, our house is always clean and everything is in order, and the good thing is that she knows where everything is around the house. Even if the girls make a mess several times a day, Yaya Josie would always have everything back in order in no time. Exactly the reason why I made sure that when the girls moved back to Qatar, we bring our every reliable yaya with us. So what am trying to say right now? What I meant is that from the few months that the two girls have gone back to Qatar, we have accumulated a lot of stuff from toys to outgrown shoes and clothes to storybooks and activity books and what nots. And so, with the size of our house, we can barely cramp ourselves in the first floor of the villa we are staying in, even if most of our other stuff had already been put in boxes and were stored at a storage area in the ground floor. Haaay.... 
Thing is, when the girls first arrived back, I promised them that I will open the balikbayan boxes full of toys which they had left when they had relocated to the Philippines. Those of you who lives in Qatar would know how generous people are in giving gifts! And so, with our house rule that they can only open 1 toy at a time, they have accumulated lots of unopened boxes of toys which I have stored in balikbayan boxes. Actually some of these toys I have already recycled by also giving away as gifts or pasalubongs to our relatives in the Philippines. The good thing about regulating the opening of toys, is that they always have something new to open whenever they get bored with the ones they are playing with. At the same time, I was able to regulate the amount of toys that is spread across the floor each time they play. But then, when they came back, I have agreed they they can open the boxes again and play with ALL the toys... I just thought that well with our Big Ate being already 9 and Small Ate 6, there really won't be much opportunity to play with them much longer, so I thought, fine! Go ahead! Play to your heart's content! LOL!
And now, I feel that the girls have already had enough fun.... think 6 months of fun is good enough? LOL! Well, that's how I feel right now, plus with Christmas coming... I can already imagine how much more toys they will be receiving! And so, I want to clean and make space for the things that may come. Well, I am also partially to blame with all the clutter in the house. When it comes to the girls things, sometimes I become so attached, thinking that they will like to see the things that they had while they were growing up, because I didn't get the same opportunity. I grew up with both parents abroad, plus the fact that we had moved and demolished and rebuilt our house so we were not really able to save much of our things. Now, with much longing I remember those gifts from Santa I have received through the years... the beautiful things my Tatay and Mommy always brought me as pasalubong from Saudi Arabia. And they were really very nice things. The clothes I used to have which I thought I could have handed down to my girls... Oh... I really feel sad just thinking about them. 
I am a generous person, maybe 70-80% of our things I give away when we no longer use them. But there are just certain things I want to keep for sentimental reasons. Like all the clothes the girls wore during their birthdays and Christmas. Maybe weird but right after their birthdays or Christmas every year. I don't let the girls wear those clothes again and I just store them in shoe boxes. I just wanted to give it back to them when they grow up. For myself, I have only kept all my signature jeans in size 26, hahahaha! I am not a shoe or bag person actually, I'm really more of a jeans person.... 
well anyway, to go back. Yes, I want to clean the house! I just don't know where to start!!!!!! It's really one of my weaknesses, house cleaning and decluttering. As always the case, I get overwhelmed with the task that I don't know where to start! Oh how I miss our house in Taguig! The place which our Yaya Josie maintained since we move in in 2008 have always been in order, organized from A-Z from day 1! There was never any need to burden myself with the overwhelming task of decluttering. Oh well... maybe the best thing would be to just start with a clean slate, throw everything away and start over! Hahahaha!
Merry Christmas everyone!