by  Jen   

It’s been a fun Christmassy day today filled with snow, baking cookies, and putting up the Christmas tree.  We got over 6″ of snow.  It was beautiful but I’m never ready for the first big snowfall.  Since it snowed all day long, I never got my shoveling done.  One of the kids went out in

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by  Jen   

When I see nine pairs of shoes lined up on the floor, it looks like so many.  It’s only nine pairs though.  I thought about getting rid of one more pair to make it an even 10 but nine is a better number.  There’s something about multiples of three so nine it is. Fewer Shoes

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by  Jen   

I keep talking about three areas that I need to work on but I’m waiting until after Christmas.  One of those spots couldn’t wait because I want it cleaned up a little bit before I put the tree up this weekend.  I decided that I could work on it a little bit at a time.

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by  Jen   

It’s the first day of snow here!  It looks beautiful but I’m never really ready for it.  It’s just one more thing that I have to clean up.  Another one of those forced cleaning events.  I still have a lot to do yet today and it’s getting late and now I have to deal with

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by  Jen   

After spending the last few months decluttering, I need to put the brakes on for a few weeks.  It will be Christmas soon so I need to focus on finishing the front porch and keeping the downstairs cleaned up.  It’s kind of fun to let it get a little messy and then see how quickly

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by  Jen   

I worked on the front porch today.  Even though I got more done than I was planning, it still wasn’t much.  I don’t want to add a picture yet because it’s still so bad.  You can’t really tell that I did much.  It just looks like a big hoarder mess out there.  I put a

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by  Jen   

Did you ever do nothing for an entire day and then get kind of mad at yourself because you didn’t get anything done?  That’s how I feel today.  The last five days have been wild and crazy.  Today was the first day in weeks that I haven’t had anything that I had to do. If

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