This morning  I am thinking about how nice it feels to get some small thing done.   Focusing on the small, needed task is a source of happiness.  I just wish there weren’t so very many little things that need to be taken care of at the moment.

This is going to be one of those Monday’s.  Very busy, so much to do.

I will post about something else soon I promise.  The last two days have been insane for me – so I am a messily two bags behind.  Tomorrow is obviously catch up day.

I am going to start updating in individual posts (it makes it easier for Kyle to read on his Blackberry) .

Yesterday was the second bag of girl’s clothes and today was a bag of Kyle’s clothing.

So I like to look over new things from time to time.  A friend sent me information on this so I though I would try out an online curriculum called Time4Learning here is there required disclaimer:

I’ve been invited to try Time4Learning’s online curriculum for one month in exchange for a candid review. My opinion will be entirely my own so be sure to come back and read my experience with Time4Learning’s educational program. Click to find out more or if you would like to apply to be considered for a review.

Lent is quickly approaching and with it my chance to simplify again and part of that is letting go of extra stuff.

Two years ago I did my first 40 trash bag challenge and then last year I did it as part of Lent.  I found that doing the “letting” go as part of Lent worked well for me.  Lent is a time of letting go and looking closely at our lives and getting rid of those things which interfere with our ability to focus on the most important things.

So, once again, the 40 trash bag challenge:

I started the 40 trashbag challenge in order to declutter my house.

How it works:

1. Pick what size of trash bag you want to use.  I used tall kitchen bags (use what works for you, paper sack, grocery bag  to  lawn and garden bag).
2. Each week day for eight weeks fill one bag (or equivalent).  It can be a bag of  toys, clothes, papers, collected junk mail, 1992 tax forms — whatever you have too much of. Equivalents count:  anything about the size of a trash bag counts:  a box of books, an old TV, a computer system.   Anything that you can count as clutter or excess is fair game.
3. Make it go away.  Donate as much as you can,  sell something if it has real value (but don’t count it until it is gone) don’t be afraid to trash things.
4. Update on your blog or leave a comment here once in awhile.  Let someone know how it goes.
5. Have fun.  This means feel free to rewrite the rules to fit your life.  Letting go of stuff is liberating — yes, it is a chore, but it is a good thing.

I saw this over at Catholic Mom.

Not bad and pretty funny.

My latest fun thing.

http://www.pandora.com/

I like being able to seed various lists with songs or groups I like and then having “similar” things presented to me — some I have never heard before.

I am still here.  The past few weeks of 2009 were lost to me in a way.  Yes, the domain mapping for my blog expired so if you suddenly were getting dead links that is why, but it is back.

Today we are doing a bit of winterizing around the house.   I found a nice site with a good set of checklists for the house here.

My grandmother is in the hospital.   She had a twisted intestine that had to be surgically corrected.  She is doing well except for being really worried and “out of it”.  Her dementia is really causing her a great deal of stress.