Reflections, Thoughts and Ideas (Page 2)

In my quest to regain my organizational skills and reduce the clutter in my home, I spent my weekend going through my cedar chest, boxes of pictures and a box of all the things I have been collecting for my son’s scrapbook which I bought when he was born.  Seventeen years later it’s still in the bag with the receipt.  One of my goals is to get everything in photo albums and scrapbooks, sooner, rather than later. I wasn’t prepared for the sense of melancholy that came over me and still lingered days later.  Pictures of loved ones no longer with us brought sad smiles and fond memories.  PicturesRead More →

I don’t know if it’s the finally melting snow or the warmer temperatures but I am feeling a huge sense of renewal.  The crocus, iris and tulips are beginning to poke through the winter mulch and I feel the breath of fresh air that spring brings right down into my soul.  I have spent the majority of winter assessing my life, my goals, my hopes and my dreams only to come up feeling lacking.  I have realized that I can keep coming up with excuses or I can come up with action.  I have spent far too long on planning and plotting, on waiting for this or thatRead More →

I used to be so organized, I don’t know what happened.  I knew exactly where everything was.  I took care of things as they arose.  I feel like I woke up one morning and a storm has come through my life and I’m in a daze trying to figure out where I am.  I have fallen into the terrible habit of procrastination, I feel consumed by the aftereffects.  As a new mother I obsessed over a clean house, I would mop the kitchen floor and vacuum in the morning before putting my son in the floor and again in the evening.  Now 17 years later, I’mRead More →

Trying to find a moment of calm in the chaos of the day sometimes feels impossible.  I find my shoulders inching up closer to my ears, my jaw clenching and tension building in my shoulders the closer it gets to time for school to be out and my husband getting home from work.  That is when my focus shifts from getting as much work done as I can to homework, what’s for dinner and the clean up.  It’s a lot harder to work from home than I imagined it would be.  Some days I feel like I’m stuck on a hamster wheel, it’s exhausting.  It’sRead More →

Here I sit, watching the snow fall.  After a few days of sunshine and warmer weather it has melted enough to tease us with hints of an early spring.  The snow had melted off my raised flower beds to let little green sprigs of new growth and hope peek out from beneath the mulch.  Now as everything gets covered up again I’ll have to be content with planning; what changes do I want to make?  Where should I replant the dahlias this year?  Do I want to put my Valentine’s mini rose bushes in containers or in the ground?  Daydreaming about my flower garden isRead More →