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Getting organized

October 17, 2008: Living Simply Saturday- A Cluttered Heart?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Getting organized , Living Simply

Welcome back to another Living Simply Saturday! I've been so enjoying this series, and though I don't always get around to reading all of the posts on Saturday (as I'm usually spending time with my husband and children) I make a point of reading each one when I'm able to....

October 15, 2008: Q&A: Phone calls and visits in the midst of a schedule
Comments: 13 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

I am still trying to figure out what to do with regards to visiting others (friends, people who need encouragement) and also talking on the phone ( to just say hi, for example talking to a friend who I haven't seen in a while, and to encourage others, and to...

October 10, 2008: Living Simple Saturdays- From Clutter to Clarity
Comments: 7 | Categories: Getting organized , Living Simply

Beginning this week, I'm excited to take a closer look at a book that I've been working my way through the past month or two, From Clutter to Clarity: Simplifying Life from the Inside Out. Though I read much of it while on vacation and haven't yet been able to...

October 3, 2008: Living Simply Saturdays: Keeping the toy mess in check
Comments: 10 | Categories: Children , Getting organized , Living Simply

Lately it seems that no matter how clean the family room is when the day begins, by approximately 10:07am it has become a pig-sty.It's not that we don't try to get it cleaned up often, but my biggest challenge is with a very creative 3 (almost 4) year old girl....

September 5, 2008: Living Simply Saturdays- I can't do it all!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Getting organized , Good stewardship , Living Simply

Welcome to the first Living Simply Saturdays carnival! If you're unsure of what it's all about, please visit this post to find out my vision for it, and then this one for some simple guidelines. I'm currently reading The Worn Out Woman, an excellent book which is meeting me right...

August 25, 2008: Seeking simplicity
Comments: 14 | Categories: Biblical womanhood , Getting organized , Living Simply

I've been feeling really worn out lately.I'm not sure when I started to feel this way exactly, only that it's been quite some time now. I wish I could put a handle on the causes and find a simple fix, but I'm not sure that it's that easy. I can...

August 22, 2008: What I'll be doing tomorrow...
Comments: 1 | Categories: Getting organized , Our family

...having my long awaited garage sale! I mentioned a few months back that I was planning to do a lot of decluttering and simplifying, just trying to get rid of all our excess "stuff". I intended to have the sale in July, but life was too hectic with the students,...

July 14, 2008: Cherry picking
Comments: 9 | Categories: Getting organized , In the kitchen

Does this man love me or what?So I've been envying eyeing the lovely cherries ripening on my neighbor's tree the last few weeks. This Saturday, I thought it might be fun to get out and enjoy a picnic in the park with friends, with just a little bit of an...

June 23, 2008: I need to have less "stuff"
Comments: 17 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

In conversations of late between my husband and I, one of the resounding themes that keeps coming is that we just have too much "stuff"! Now, I don't think that most people who visited my home would feel that it was terribly cluttered or knick-knacky, or that we were bursting...

June 7, 2008: Tweaking my schedule
Comments: 8 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

For the last couple of months, I've been working hard to get my children and I onto a more effective schedule. It's not always easy, especially with babies and toddlers, who are so unpredictable and require so much help and attention. I think, though, that it is possible and I...

April 28, 2008: Spring is beckoning to me
Comments: 4 | Categories: A bit of this, a bit of that , Getting organized

Does anyone else feel overwhelmed with the things that they need to do right now? Since spring hit, it feels that life has been just one blur of busyness, trying to fit in all of the things that I need or want to do. I'm not sure that the reason...

March 1, 2008: I remember what it feels like to have an organized kitchen!
Comments: 6 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking , In the kitchen

After a week of squeezing in bits of organizing time whenever I could find them, at last, the majority of my kitchen organization is done! I'm trying to follow Org Junkie's Monthly Round-Up this year, using my Fridays (which are my household projects days) to work on organizing projects. Since...

February 22, 2008: Time to tackle my kitchen...
Comments: 6 | Categories: Getting organized , In the kitchen

Every day this week, we have had sunshine by the late morning. I've been wearing skirts, barefeet and short sleeved shirts- in February! In Vancouver! Spring is definitely in the air... And with spring comes that insatiable urge to organize, de-clutter and clean (at least for me, it does). I'm...

February 19, 2008: At long last- the schedule is finished!
Comments: 14 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

On Saturday evening, I breathed a sigh of relief because my new daily schedule is complete. I have been working on it as much as possible over the course of the last several weeks, examining what wasn't working with what I currently had, my strengths and weaknesses, my priorities (and...

February 12, 2008: Scheduling series- A continued look into my own process
Comments: 1 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

Continuing from yesterday's post, here is the rest of the process that I have been working through as I create a new daily and weekly schedule for myself (and my kiddos). The third major thing that I did was to sit down with my worksheets from 24 Hours is All...

February 11, 2008: Scheduling series- A glimpse into my own process of creating a schedule
Comments: 4 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

For those who missed the first two posts in this series, here they are:Struggling with a scheduleScheduling issues continued- what are our pitfalls? This is the week that I am really hunkering down and creating my new weekly and daily schedule, which I plan to post as soon as it...

January 30, 2008: Scheduling issues continued- what our are pitfalls?
Comments: 4 | Categories: Getting organized , Homemaking

Edit: For those who didn't read the first post in this scheduling series, here is the link to it. Before I had babies, I was one of those people who never really stops. I had an incredibly full schedule all through high school and university, balancing a heavy course load...