by  Jen   

At the beginning of the year, I posted about my hopes and goals for the new year.  It seems that for me, no matter how January goes, that’s how the rest of the year ends up going.  And this year I was predicting it would be a year full of debt. It started right away

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by  Jen   

It’s amazing how quickly the clear spots fill up!  This is good and bad.  It’s great that the boys are finally letting go of some of the stuff they’ve been holding onto.  Not so great that it takes up so much space and it’s physically hard stuff to get rid of.  Some of these computers

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by  Jen   

My basement is one of the areas that still has a hoard.  It’s a hard one though because it’s a lot of stuff from when my kids were little.  Letting go of toys and baby clothes is really hard for me.  I don’t know what’s in a lot of the plastic tubs but I know

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by  Jen   

The new towel rack fit in the spot perfectly.  Almost a little too perfectly.  If it would have been an inch bigger, it wouldn’t have fit at all.  I love the way it holds all of the towels.  It would be really nice to have a matching set of towels but it’s not in the

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by  Jen   

Last week, I worked on cleaning the teeny tiny bathroom upstairs after finding mold in there.  We’ll have to be extra vigilant to make sure that the mold doesn’t keep growing.  I haven’t done decorating in that room for at least 10 years so it’s about time that it gets a little update – even

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by  Jen   

No one likes to admit that they have mold in their house, not even me, and I’m pretty open about most things.  It’s extra hard to write this because I don’t know why I was so oblivious to the water that was pouring down my wall every time it rained for months.  Why didn’t I

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by  Jen   

Some days I wonder if spending all this time decluttering is worth it in the end.  I thought I was getting pretty organized.  I thought I took care of most of the stressful stuff for the county fair but after four days of excessive heat and strong thunderstorms, we’ve completely fallen apart. The first day

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