The Magic of 15

31 Day Challenge: Day 25 I had my first two children while I was attending college full time. They were 16 months apart. Yes. We will not discuss my planning skills at this time. What those years taught me was to use every second of time that I had available. They taught me to love […]

An Orderly Life

31 Day Challenge: Day 24 Is your life an orderly one? Or do you spend each day frantically lurching from one thing to another trying to get it all done, only to find that, in the end, little was actually accomplished? Or maybe you find that you get a lot done while at work, but […]

Old Ways, New Ways

31 Day Challenge: Day 23 When you are trying to establish some order in your life, one of the things that you have to do is to change your ways. My hero, Albert Einstein, once said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. How often […]

The Time Capsule

31 Day Challenge: Day 20 I spent the entire day today decluttering that mess around my desk that I showed you on Day 7, The High Price of Disorder. I wish I had a picture to show you, but I always write at night when the lighting is bad. Let’s just say that the end […]

10 Minutes to Order, Restored

31 Day Challenge: Day 18 Restoring order to your home doesn’t have to take days. Not all at once anyway. Today was a day of cooking in my kitchen. My son, Andy, is a great cook, but a messy one. And he uses too many anchovies. I believe that I completely cleaned the kitchen, including […]

Real Life is Messy

31 Day Challenge: Day 17 I like to call this photo “Still Life with Caulk”. Isn’t it lovely? Sorry for the blurriness; I had to use the camera on my phone. Can you see which side of the table belongs to me and which side belongs to my husband? I bet you can. All month […]