Happy Spring!

Yes, I know Spring is almost a month old already but it finally feels like Spring to me.  Not just the weather but in the new beginning sense of the word.  Something I have been struggling with is finding a way to manage the chaos in my life, to get under control the things that cause me to feel like I’m in fast forward; the time is passing quickly but I feel like I have nothing to show for it, like when you charge the battery on your phone just enough to keep it powered on but not enough to do any long term good.  That’s the state I constantly find myself in and while sometimes it’s good for time to go fast (like Monday through Friday 8-5) the rest of the time seems to be moving even faster.  Jessica’s next birthday she will be 20.  I still cannot grasp that concept.  My beautiful, precious baby no longer a teenager.   On one hand, I’m extremely grateful for the fact that she is in school and still living at home but part of me is always in mourning for the fact that she is the only one. 

K.I.S.S.

Aka Keep It Simple Smartass…

I know the last “S” is different but stupid I am not, Smartass, most definitely!  My focus has been on simplifying which sounds easy enough but has been really challenging for me.  I’m not sure where I got some if the ideas I have about how things should be but some of them definitely need some tweaking and I’ve been trying to take one thing apart at a time but the thoughts sometimes come all at once and I try to keep them in order so I can do something with them.  One thing I did that seems to help with the clutter both on the counters and in the cabinet is I went and bought one of those shoe holders that hangs on the inside of a closet door.  I put it inside the pantry door, the pockets are deep and expand so I am using them for boxes of stuff like foil, saran wrap, Ziploc bags, etc.  I am using some of the other pockets for measuring cups, trying to figure out what else can fit in them!