Three guesses. I'll give you a hint. It isn't a platypus puppet. But I do think it would work better as that. I bought this thing at a garage sale, new in the package, about three years ago. Maybe longer. I took it out of the package this morning. And now I'll either throw it away or let my kids use it for a . . . platypus puppet. It's a …
Archives for November 2009
My New Non-Negotiable for the Week
I didn't add a new non-negotiable last week. Since I didn't get back until Monday evening, it really never occurred to me, and things were so off schedule last week that it was a bit pointless anyway. I've managed to not let the house become a total sty this week. Just a half-way sty. I've tried to be "aware" of the clutter and the need to clean …
Slowly, oh so slowly
I've worked more in the master today. I'm trying to plow through even though it seems like it will never end. I try to make it my philosophy to focus on thing by thing instead of the big picture when the big picture starts to overwhelm me. I have no idea if this is the right thing to do, since I am the antithesis of an organizational/cleaning …
Progress . . . and reality
If you read this blog because you're a little messy and "hate clutter" you probably won't understand. But if you're a true slob, you will. Do you know that point when you start to work on a REALLY bad room and you get about half way done and then it just overwhelms you that you will never find a place for all of this junk? That's where I …
Help . . . I need an excuse!
I would like to find an excuse. But I'm afraid there isn't one.Tonight and tomorrow are off-the-schedule kind of days, and it's weighing heavily on me that I should work on the master bedroom. Our bedroom.Our scary bedroom.Really, our bedroom is more like a storage room right now than a bedroom. A totally chaotic and scary storage room. It's the …
Sage Advice for Young Love
To all of those in that new, starry-eyed, heartrate-increasing, better-than-food stage of new love, you may have been asked the following question by someone who is both wise and well-meaning. Can you see yourself with this person ten years from now? What a wonderful question! And yet it is a little too vague and lacks specifics. Allow me …
5 Minute Memory Makers
One of the big problems with being a slob, and a mom, is that a house out of control can make you feel overwhelmed, and the overwhelmed feeling can keep you from doing the neat little projects that you read about and want to do with your kids. So having the house under better control helps so much in my being willing to tackle a project. But …
My Off-Balance World
I'm off balance in more ways than one. First of all, I still feel the boat moving, and I got off more than two days ago. I'm ready for this equilibrium problem, or whatever it is, to stop.Secondly, and mainly, things are off-balance because they are out of routine. It's a holiday week, and my kids and husband are home for the entire week. Nothing …
Christmas Decorating – OH THE BOXES!!!
Today, we're decorating the house for Christmas. Shhh. I know that we should wait until after we've fully enjoyed Thanksgiving, but if we don't get it done now, there won't be a time to do it. And we're going to my mom's on Thursday anyway. I know. Excuses. Last year, after Christmas, I made an effort to get rid of stuff I didn't use …
