One day in the midst of feeling overwhelmed about all the things around the house I needed to do, I stumbled across a great blog post that really spoke to me (because catching up on blog reading is the thing to do when no one has clean underwear). Her feelings about Christmas - honey, I’m all there. Ahem . . . ‘course we still have an Easter basket and a bag full of empty Easter eggs cluttering the countertop.

So what is my problem? If it feels so good to get rid of the clutter, why do I have so much of it!????? The problem lies in that few short 15 minutes that Ellen Gaver was talking about. I’m so eager every morning to get to my computer to see what wondrous revelations await me there, that I’m immediately sucked into the laptop time warp zone. Next thing ya’ know, it’s time to go pick up kids from preschool, have lunch, take naps, pick up big kids from school, eat snacks, and rush off to after-school activities. I’m sorry, WHERE was the time for decluttering?

By spending just a few minutes in the morning BEFORE heading out to the World Wide Web, I’ve found that I can actually accomplish quite a bit - I mean, enough to notice, ya’ know? Though the house could use more than 15 minutes of my attention each day, giving just that little bit might save my sanity one day. Now, if I could just find the rest of those Easter eggs . . . blog-signature.JPG


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