Starting Fresh

I can hardly believe that a week from today

I will be starting my NEW job teaching

Art and Photography.

I am so thrilled... but a tad stressed

trying to get everything around here finished.

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I am almost finished with my

"Throw out 50 Things" book.

I can not say enough about how wonderful it is.

Without a doubt.. it is the most life changing book

I've read in a long long time.
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I waited until the end to do Brady's stuff..

What a mess of toys he had in his little room.

So many, and in such chaos that he hardly

even played with them.

Soooooo.. we dumped ALL of them out

and started separating into sections.
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You can see on his face just how

NOT excited he was about this project.

But... we went through every single toy..

and found a whole bunch we'd forgotten about
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HE had so many (of his older sister's) beanie babies

that he could almost bury himself in them.
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I went to Wal-Mart and bought
see through tubs.
(this I have found is a wonderful secret for kids)
Now he can see exactly what toys he has.
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We organized every thing we were keeping,
and put them all into SECTIONS.
He is quite picky about making sure
the cars do NOT get into the animal section. haha
I just LOVE how it all turned out...
and Brady has played more with his toys
in the last few days than he has
in the last 3 months put together.
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While on my "GET rid of stuff" tour
through my house. I decided that I didn't
really like anything at all in my living room.
SO... I cleared almost ALL of it out
and I am starting over.
I found some of my MILLIONS of frames
in the garage and painted them all
various shades of turquoise.
I have pictures to go in almost all of them
and will show you the finished wall
as soon as I get them all in and the wall painted.
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I also found this HUGE canvas
on the side of the road
and brought it home.
I know exactly the painting I am going to do
on it... but just haven't gotten around to that
yet either.
So for now everything is just
a random shade of uncluttered blue....
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May we all... (MOSTLY me)
remember that everything does NOT
HAVE to be done TODAY!
Sometimes it's the SLOW rides that are the most enjoyable.