Life is moving fast. I feel like I need to retire my flip-flops and replace them with running shoes to keep up. You know I love the country life. Every time I visit my sister in Arkansas it has been good for my soul. My last visit was no different. Two weeks ago, I drove with another one of my sisters and three kids 10 hours to Arkansas to meet our new niece....and hug the rest of her fam. It was a short trip, but so worth it. I got to catch up with two of my sisters (I'm one of nine Continue Reading
Digging Our Way Out!
You know that feeling where you are always stepping on stuff and you feel claustrophobic in your own home? Our house felt like it was swallowing us with all the stuff oozing out of cupboards, closets, drawers, and counters. I'm not even kidding when I say, before putting our house on the market it was common to walk through the door and not have anywhere to sit my purse. Our house attack process literally had us touching everything we own. We pulled everything out of all the dark Continue Reading
Old Home Tour
We laughed with our realtor yesterday about the use of the term "house" versus "home." There is a difference between the two words. One seems matter of fact and the other is personal. Since we began this house attack process, our living residence was a "house" in most of my frame work. I had a list of to-dos and I just kept at them. This week, the list of to-dos got less and less until we were done. Now that I am not in task mode and breathing (and able to sit once again), I am getting sad Continue Reading