Today Number 4 walked in the door after school and said, “Mom! The house looks so nice!!!” My kitchen is neat and organized. My dining room is neat and organized. My workout “room” is super neat and organized. My mudroom is fairly neat and organized. And now my office is mostly neat and mostly organized. […]
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Yesterday Was The Nail In The Coffin
I reached a breaking point yesterday. AND I AM DONE. No, it wasn’t with my kids. It wasn’t with my husband. It was with the level of chaos and disorganization and clutter and mess I often allow in my house. I will no longer tolerate it. Let me tell you why. I have to rewind […]
Disorganization Is Making Your Job (Much) Harder
The longer I am a mom, the more it becomes clear that a lot of the exasperation I experience on a daily basis is my own doing. I am frustrating and exasperating myself. Which makes me more frustrated and exasperated. I suppose somebody could have pointed this out to me ten years ago (somebody probably […]
Happy New Year — in September. (And My New Bullet Journal Set Up)
One of the reasons I love September and the new school year isn’t just because the kids go back to school and things are quiet during the day and I get some breathing room. It’s also because September is a fresh start and the beginning of a new “year.” It’s a great chance to start […]
One Room At A Time
If you’ve been around the past few weeks, you know I’ve been getting organized. But this time it’s not just another okay-it’s-time-to-throw-some-sh*t-away freakout. This time it’s an I-am-no-longer-willing-to-tolerate-chaos complete and total paradigm shift. This also happened to me when I was teacher. For the first few years I taught elementary school, my desk was a […]
Cultivating My Inner Calm
Yesterday I shared that I am no longer willing to be disorganized. It’s not just the wasting of time trying to find things that is driving me crazy. It’s even more that clutter and the messes are making me angry. It literally puts me in a bad mood. If you’ve been around here for the […]