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Cleaning House (so to speak)

February 3, 2020 By: Nanette

You’re a good wife and mom. You keep your house clean right? No one especially me expects spotless but clean, up to date and organized is what I aim for. Don’t you?

Sure we all want organization and what better time than at the beginning of a new year. I know, I know, it’s already February! Where did January go? But for the sake of this article let’s just go with the flow here and call it the beginning of a new year, let’s not get technical okay? Thanks!

My Geeky Guy

My husband is a computer geek. Love him but he drives me nuts with all the geek stuff sometimes. And he calls me a geek. He’s really big on keeping his computer organized. I get it, but mine, it’s just one more thing for me to keep track of as an always busy mom. But when he showed me how old some of the files on my computer were, I promised to go through them and get rid of the old stuff I no longer needed.

Oh What You Find When You Clean House

I found documents on my computer almost as old as my kids. Okay, I can not let it get that out of hand again. Seriously, documents almost 20 years old? What was I thinking? Did I really get that busy that I didn’t ever clean out these old files?

I’m a pretty organized person or so I thought. All my business documents and files etc. were good. It’s just all the little extra stuff like notes, videos I had forgotten about, duplicate photos that I wasn’t so good at organizing or disposing of when I either didn’t need the document anymore or it was a duplicate.

I Blame This on Blogging

As a blogger, I found lots of duplicate photos that I had cropped or manipulated to use on my blog always intending to go back and delete the cropped version and I just didn’t. I found old articles and programs I used to use. I found old zip files of blog themes I used a decade ago! I just couldn’t believe how much junk was there.

That really adds up to a lot of wasted space on my computer system.

I admit it, it’s not really blogging’s fault, but it’s so much easier to blame it on blogging than to take the blame myself.

Sat Down and Cleaned Up

It took a couple of days and a lot of hours but I did it! I cleaned out my computer system. Now, I’m not going to say I’m done. I have photos I need to organize but at least they aren’t duplicates and I got rid of a lot of random junk. Don’t even ask me why I had some of it. Don’t tell my husband this, but I feel so much better now that it’s done and I’m going to work on keeping it this way. Once I’m done with something off it goes to its proper home on my computer and not just shoved into the My Documents folder.

My “My Documents” folder had become my junk drawer. You know the one you shove stuff in cause you just either don’t know where to put it or you just need to put it somewhere quick.

Do you dare look through your computer files to see what you have shoved somewhere just to get it off your desktop intending to get back to it?

Harlem Globetrotters Family Fun Discount

January 21, 2020 By: Nanette

This post is written in conjunction with US Family Guide and the Harlem Globetrotters. A form of compensation will be received.

My Globetrotters Memories

I remember sitting at home with my sisters watching the Harlem Globetrotters on TV. Wow, just saying that out loud brings back such fond family memories. Do you have fond memories from your childhood of watching the Globetrotters with your brothers, sisters, and parents?

Oh, the laughter their antics created and still does!

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Gratitude

January 17, 2020 By: Nanette

Have you ever kept a gratitude journal? You know what I mean. Every morning or evening you write down a set number of things you are grateful for. I tried once and gave up pretty quickly.

Am I Ungrateful?

No, it’s not that I’m not grateful, I am for so much, for everything – the good, the bad, even the hard stuff! But I realize now that I’m doing a 21 Days of Happiness project and keeping my word for 2020 (Love) in the forefront, I wake up ready to write down the three things I’m grateful for each morning.

What Made Things Different Now?

I guess I’ve come to realize that I was letting life’s anxieties and everyday stresses really take that happiness and gratitude away from me. I let it rob me of happiness.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like my life is stress-free now, I still have the same everyday problems like everyone else on this planet. I’m just trying to focus more on putting my word, Love, first and it is already making life easier, well maybe easier isn’t the right word, I think better is the right word for me. Priorities. That comes before all of the daily stresses that were robbing me of being happy.

Reading God’s word daily.

Listening to uplifting music.

Focusing on the good.

Being kind to myself and to others.

These are just some of the small changes that are making a big difference in my days. They are making being grateful more obvious, making me see the good in my days even if sometimes they are long and stressful. Refocusing on the good and being grateful for that is how I want every day to be.