How to get a list of Content Area Items in the order they are listed in the CMS

Hi,

I have a list of content area items. The first item in the list is a Category and the second item is a CMS page and the rest of the items after that are all Categories.

From what I can see the out of the box Epi functionality around getting Content Area Items is that it looks at all Categories first and then CMS pages meaning the list is not in the order that they are listed in the back end. So what we get is all categories and then cms pages after.

Is there a way to get them to list in the correct order?

Thanks