Enjoying a quiet Sunday morning? We sure are here. I think the kids are wore out from yesterday which is a good thing since we try to make Sundays quiet and relaxing here. I like some good reading material on Sunday mornings and I would love for you all to check these out! I wanted to start something for the weekends and I couldn’t really decide what. I have a lot of interests and I read about a lot of…
Ah, birthdays. The four times of the year I love and dread all at the same time. My babies are growing up and I love watching them grow and mature. I dread the birthday shopping. This last year, I started something new. Instead of a gift that could possibly end up in the giveaway box in a few years, I give them something they love. That they can consume. Without sharing with their siblings if they so desire. I give…
Hey y’all! Google Reader is doing something tragic! They are closing that handy little service as of July 1st. Google Reader is also taking Feedburner with it! Seriously?!?! What does mean for you? If you subscribe to me by Google Reader or Feedburner, you will need to change the way you subscribe to me by July 1st. There are a number of ways you can do this and I will go through them all. First, you can sign up for…
Simplifying the life and mind is to get rid of the stuff not needed anymore. Needing less to live better. When I talk about simplifying my life, I am not talking just about the material things I own. I am talking about the commitments I have, the obligations I try to meet, and the people in my life as well as our homes. For now, I will talk about the home and things we have in it. As this series…
With all the decluttering I have done in the office and seems to never end in that room, I have come across an amazing amount of papers. School papers. Notices. Junk mail that I thought was not. Things that I printed out. The things these papers all have in common? Only one side is used! The waste! I have trouble letting some of this paper go because the other side is clean and available. So we reuse it! If it…
Lately I have been doing a lot of decluttering at home. As I alluded to in Monday’s post, I have been noticing things. The more cluttered I am in mind, the worse the stress seems. If my house is really messy and very disorganized, I feel disorganized and sort of lost with what I need to do. If I go through a pile of papers and deal with them, I feel better. If I clean, tidy, and organize a shelf,…