Tomorrow is October. As in, Fall. Wow. So, it's time to share my decluttering progress for September. Thankfully, it's better than August . . . which only had one decluttering project. Normal Friend came over again today, because she honestly loves helping me clean. So . . . completely . . . bizarre. This week has been crazy, and … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2011
Donating the Stuff From My . . . Donation Spot
Step One: Declutter. Step Two: Get the stuff you decluttered out of your house. I love my donation spot. But I realized the other day that it was as tall as I am. It was no longer just a spot, but more of an area-in-which-to-practice-balancing-random-items-on-top-of-one-another. Since this week has been crazy with helping out at the … [Read more...]
Re-Motivating the Kids
My kids' daily checklist is designed for my own brain. It's meant to be something that will help them motivate themselves, which makes up for my own ability to say, "OK, get in bed!" without ever thinking about having them pick up their rooms, the living room, etc. We go through times when the checklist is forgotten. By all of us. Thankfully, … [Read more...]
Authenticity . . . Everywhere
I've been putting this post off forever. At least since I returned from the Women of Faith event I attended. Here's the thing. I wanted to be profound. I wanted to be earth-shattering. I wanted what I wrote to be something that would drop jaws and bring tears. But what I kept coming back to as the thing God wanted from me . . . is so … [Read more...]
The Bell Tolled
I'm not generally a confrontational person. I speak truth when beneficial, but I don't go looking for trouble. And I try to be a good neighbor. I instruct the kids to not play outside until after 8 a.m. and not to sing with gusto while standing on top of the Jungle Gym . . . until after 9. Confused about all the defensive statements? Last … [Read more...]
My Mushroom Gravy “Recipe” – Or “Nony Exposes Her Kitchen Cop-Out”
If you read my menu plans, you may have noticed that one of our favorite meals is Blah-blah-blah with "mushroom gravy" over rice/potatoes/pasta. About a month ago, one of you called me on it. And then my aunt literally called me. You were both being nice, and wanted to know my "recipe" for mushroom gravy. Because it sounds nice. And … [Read more...]
A Few Links for the Weekend
I generally don't post on Saturdays, but thought I'd share a few links to things I've written around the web lately. I guest posted over at Raising Arrows yesterday, sharing how honesty has probably been the biggest factor in my deslobification process. My next article at All You is also up. Love that magazine and am having a blast doing … [Read more...]
So the Clothes are Clean . . . Now What?
I keep up with laundry. Really . . . I do. For over a year now, I've been doing all of our laundry on Mondays, and that system works for us. And for my Slob Brain. No more one-load-a-day-delusions that just end in the same one load being washed every day for a week because I keep forgetting to put it in the dryer. But then, similar … [Read more...]
Decluttering in the Master Bedroom with Normal Friend – With Webisode
I guess I could just call this "Normal Friend" week, huh? Really, though, the work that we got done when she was here for three hours last Friday was (at least) a week's worth of work for me. I'm so . . . incredibly . . . grateful. Anyway, the final thing that we did before she left was to shoot a webisode. Probably not the … [Read more...]