The year long decluttering project continues. My goal is to work methodically and consistently to rid of my home and extraneous and unnecessary items. In January, I decluttered the items under my bed. I have to admit that I was really pumped to start this project and I really thought that I would be farther…
Book Club/Books
February Reading Stats and One Challenging Book
Hello! I’m back with my reading stats for February. My life has been very busy and I’ve been trying hard to keep up with reading and listening to books. The listening is going pretty well but the reading has been challenging. I don’t know if it’s the books I chose or just finding the time…
Memory Keeping
Project Life 2026-January
After much deliberation, I decided that I would move forward with current Project Life because otherwise, I would just be behind and never catch up. I’ll get to the ones from 2025 at some later time this year. I continue to enjoy doing this project even when I feel like I’m behind! WEEK ONE WEEK…
Book Club/Books
Tackling My Reading Goal for 2026
Time to tackle the reading goal for 2026. As mentioned in an earlier post, my goal this year is to read 78 books. That’s not a lot for many people but it is definitely a challenge for me. I do a combination of listening and reading books each month. Based on my statistics from last…
Memory Keeping
Project Life-July and August 2025
Yes, I am finally posting my memory keeping from July and August 2025. This is mostly to keep me accountable to continue this project that I really like doing. I got behind on posting last year so the last 6 months of the year did not get posted. So, this is really more for me…
Home Projects
Year of Decluttering-Part One-January 2026
Welcome to the first installment of Project Declutter. With good luck, good timing, motivation and discipline, there should be at least 12 parts for this year. For part one, I decided to declutter under my bed. As I said in a previous post, the reason for starting small is so that I don’t get overwhelmed…
Home Projects
Pantry Project-She’s All Done!!
When we were last here in the pantry back in June, I had just finished painting and putting in the shelves and supports. You can catch up here.I did continue to work on it and I finished it! I am actually really proud of myself for getting this done as it has several elements that…
Book Club/Books
2025 Reading Goal & What’s on tap for 2026
When we last talked about my reading goal, it was May of 2025. My goal was to read 70 books. While I wasn’t documenting, I was reading. I’m going to share with you the books I read/listened to for the remainder of 2025 and then discuss whether or not I have a goal for this…
Home Projects
Kitchen Cabinets-Replacing and Organizing Storage Containers
This is one of those projects that I actually worked on and completed even though I was not documenting in this space at that time. In working on this cabinet, the goals were to get rid of most of the plastic containers, replace them with glass containers, and only keep what was actually needed. I…
Memory Keeping
2025 Monthly Memory Keeping-May & June Memories
In spite of not posting for the past 6 months, I did in fact keep up with making my digital memory keeping pages. For the sake of information, I use the Project Life system created by Becky Higgins. I have been doing this project since 2010! I started by using the physical product and then…
