Pondering the New Year

Wow, I haven’t blogged all year!

Mostly because Philip’s been home and he’s been giving me the look.  Ladies, you know which one I mean.  He spies me from across the room, one eyebrow raises, then his eyes narrow.  Yep, the look that says, “Are you on the computer again?”  So I’ve been laying low the last couple of days.  But he’s back to work now and blogging can continue as normal.

I love the start of the New Year.  A fresh calendar on the wall is just teeming with the possibilities of the year to come.  Even if you don’t make resolutions, it’s a chance to change things and make a new start.

We’ve got a lot of changes ahead of us this year.  At least we think so.  You know what they say about making plans and God.  I don’t think he laughs at our plans so much as he smiles indulgently and says, “We’ll see.”  Like a parent to a child asking for a new toy or a piece of candy.  So we’ll see what really happens to our planned changes.

In the meantime, it’s time to get over the Flood of ’06 already.  Yes, it was awful.  Yes, leaving for vacation and never returning to your old house is difficult.  Yes, nothing un-motivates faster than your best laid plans going wrong.  But it’s been a year and I’m tired of using it as an excuse.

Like so many others, I’m Decluttering this year.  Again.  Still.

I mean it this time.

I was doing pretty well cleaning out the random Corners of My Home, but I’d like to do better.  I’ve got to keep up with the regular housework and caring for the family at the same time.   I think I’ve got a pretty good plan to accomplish all of this.

First, I’m going to keep up with my modified FlyLady plan.

Next, I’m going to follow this Declutter Calendar.   Even though I’m not going to see a lot of major changes with this schedule, at least it is easy to follow, which means I will stick to it.

For the regular housekeeping stuff, I’m using Motivated Moms.  Again, simple and easy and do-able.

I think I’m going to concentrate on serious decluttering one room a month.  I don’t even have 12 rooms in our house, so here is where I think I’ll see some serious clearing out of the junk.

Those three plans are going to overlap a little, so I’ll have to work out the details a little more.  I’m not going to stress over it though.  It’ll all work out.

I’d also like to scrapbook one double page layout a week.  Not a huge goal, but better than nothing, which is what I’ve been doing lately.

Sounds good, don’t you think?

I can almost hear God saying, “We’ll see.”

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