Rebecca, Congratulations on all that you have accomplished! Thanks for working with me & Vanetta.
Sherry in FL On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:13:30 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well working buddies Sherry Vannetta, and the other's that I didn't > know > about, > > Nope, didn't get much done in the gross motor skills department. We > had > dinner (I tried out vegetarian 'meat balls' on my Italian sweetie - > no go. > Kids liked them, though) This is my first night home since > Saturday, so I > just managed to clean up the dinner dishes and tidy up the kitchen > and family > room and just couldn't deal with the idea of any other housekeeping > or > decluttering. Instead we planned the next 6 months. I have > visitation with > the kids' dad to work around, workshops and trainings that take > place over > the next few months, and a commitment to do all of the '50 Hikes in > Massachusets' (It's a book) hikes this year. After about 3 hours of > > consolidating calendars and the three planners I have around here, I > have > weekends (mine are Friday-Saturday because I work on Sundays) > arranged > through our camping trip to the American Southwest in August. > > Sweetie has gone home and I'm going to bed. But before I go, I > wanted to > share the lightbulb moment I had tonight. Sometimes, decluttering > isn't > about restoring physical space, sometimes it's about creating order > in life > in other ways. For me, this was committing to plans for the rest of > the > church/school year and summer which begins the process of > negotiating with > the kids' dad, planning my work schedule and projects and generally > being > proactive about my spring and summer plans. This would not have > been > possible two years ago. . .I would have just waited, waited, and > raced around > in a frenzy of activity, full of resentments as the months passed > by, feeling > once again, that there had to be a better way. Thanks to all you > JFCers I > can say.. . There IS a better way, and I think I've found it. > > rebecca ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.; *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Journey from clutter List Website http://journeyfromclutter.com Members Only Page http://journeyfromclutter.com/MembersOnly/MembersArea.htm Unsubscribe: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in the 'Subject:' field to be removed from the main list. To Unsubscribe from the Digest version of the list send the unsubscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
