Happy Easter everyone. I cannot believe it has been almost two months since I have posted.
WOW. Time is flying by, before I know it, Christmas will be here.
I hope everyone has had a blessed Easter.

Happy Monday everyone!!! I hope you all had a great week last week.
Starting out this new week with sun shining and the birds singing to each other. What blessings!!!
I have started walking (or trying to walk) each evening just before dark. I can't say I succeed in getting that little bit of walking in everyday, but I sure feel better if I do.
Hoping that spring is bursting forth in your neck of the woods.
Be blessed.

Hey out there. I hope everyone is having a great February. I haven't posted in a while. Had to post today though. What a gorgeous day we are having here. The temps are in the upper 70s with a nice breeze blowing the leaves around and the pollen right into all our allergic noses. What beautiful blessings we can count.
Now, does anyone have any advice to me about menopause? Cause guess what? I think I have finally arrived at what they are calling perimenopause.
Hope you all are beginning to get some warmer temps and are doing well.

Wow, I haven't posted in a long time. I guess I'm either so busy I don't have time or I'm so boring, I have nothing to post.
Probably the latter. I do enjoy checking in from time to time though.
The de-cluttering is going well. The baby steps approach was the way to go. Thanks for all the tips and support.
I hope to have more time to blog hop for more than a few minutes soon. Y'all be blessed.

Good Monday morning to you all. I hope that this weekend was a blessed one for you all.
Since my last post, I have taken the advice (great advice, I might add) of my bloggy buddies about being overwhelmed with clutter. To take one small bite at a time.
I purchased some plastic bins (on sale, too)!! Started with one little bit and I am pleased to tell you all that I have made some significant progress in getting everything up off the floors and into some semblance of order.
Although, purchasing a storage shed is out of the financial question right now, I did locate an unused space in my home and have stored ALL of my Christmas decorations there.
That little move freed up some space in my children's bathroom closet (see, I told you it was bad).
I am so grateful to have wonderful bloggy buddies who have great advice and much compassion for me.
Hoping that each of you has a blessed week. :-))

It's Monday.....is anyone else overwhelmed?

It is Monday morning. I am so overwhelmed, I am in tears.
I had such high hopes for myself this new year. I really, really want to get my house more organized and get myself on a routine of cleaning. But it is such a big job I just found myself sitting in the chair and crying. I am overwhelmed.
I wanted to get a portable storage shed this year and put all the decoration boxes and stuff that is seasonal in there. Well, we certainly can't afford that. I am trying to think of inventive ways to store those bazillion bins, but I just can't.
So I find that instead of accomplishing ANYthing, I am just so overwhelmed I am doing NOTHING.
Any tips, ladies? Help me, I'm drowning!!!

Tuesday Tidbits.....

Okay, I don't know about y'all, but my 2011 has not been going as I planned.
Tap, tap....is this thing on?
We have been trying this past year and half to get out of debt. Seriously!
Because of choices made when we were both younger, we had some serious debt issues. This past May, we finally paid off both of the vehicles we had.
For the first time in sixteen years, we did not have a car payment. Not one!!!
God had blessed us with selling one of the paid off vehicles to get rid of some credit card debt (i.e. - devil debt).
So, when we returned from our vacation around Christmas, I got into my paid off vehicle and cranked it up. My husband came flying out of the house and said, "How long has it been doing that?" It hadn't. It was the first time evah.
Anyway, long story short, we now have a car payment. WAAAAA!!!! We didn't buy a new car. We went to a very reputable car agency and bought a good used one. But we still have that extra payment again. It makes me so sad.
AND that's not all. Last Thursday, I dropped the older kids at school and came home to start the laundry. I got the load in and put in the detergent and walked out to let the barrel fill up so I could put clothes in it. When I came in from collecting dirty clothes, I stepped in .....you guessed it...water. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I called my husband in from the cows and he disconnected the water pipes and pulled it out from the wall ( I would show you a picture but I seriously cannot believe all the crap that was under that washer in just three short years). Anywho, I digress. Come to find out, the bottom of the wash barrel had rusted through. Can you say, new washing machine? I can.
Now, we have more consumer debt, cause we didn't have any savings left after our vacation.
Does anyone else live like this? Do you ever feel like you just can't get ahead?
Please let me hear from you, cause I feel like the Lone Ranger here.