Welcome to My Neat Retreat, a place where I share all the things I do to organize my life amongst the chaos of family, pets, friends and work.
I am Hannah, a mid 30’s wife and mother of two (with a daughter about to start school and a 5 month old baby boy). We have recently moved into what we hope is our forever family home, alongside our nearly 6 year old rescue dog on the south coast of England.
I have been honing organizational strategies since childhood where I would obsessively tidy my bedroom each night and create documents of outfits to pack for holidays. As an adult, these once frivolous habits and spreadsheets have become a necessity in a life that now has so many different areas requiring time and attention.
However, I don’t want you to think because I have a natural inclination towards order and organization that my life doesn’t often look chaotic and out of control. My Neat Retreat was born out of a desire to share my love of systems at a time where the birth of my son had thrown a major spanner in the works! I may be a routine loving perfectionist at heart, but I’m also a major procrastinator with a serious case of analysis paralysis.
I would love to connect with other likeminded people, on the path to try and show up and thrive in the areas of life we deem most important. Feel free to drop me a message and say Hi, I would love to meet you!