Simplify

I am simplifying our life a little lately.  It's not really even a plan, I have just found myself cleaning out cabinets and rooms and completing projects that were left undone.  Those two things are the same to me.  I cleaned out the clutter under my bathroom sink by throwing things away and lining things up and putting things where they belong.  I cleaned out the clutter in my mind by finishing the prayer shawl I was working on.  Same happy feeling. 

I love it.

I occasionally make goals and work toward them but it is so frustrating to me when I don't meet a goal or deadline that most of the time I kind of live by the seat of my pants and I like it that way.  My house gets kind of messy but eventually I get around to straightening it and in the mean time I have fun conversations with sisters, children, friends, and dogs. 

It's not that I'm not goal oriented - okay maybe it is - but I have just found that I am happier when I have just a few things I routinely do that keep my life sane, and have big sections of 'do the next thing I want to do' in my life.  Maybe most people are happier that way but they call it vacation. I don't know, but I do feel blessed to live this life that allows me to enjoy my strengths and downplay my weaknesses.  It definitely helps that I'm married to a 'type A' kind of guy who loves his 'type B' kind of woman.

So far I have cleaned out cabinets and drawers in the master bathroom, the laundry room, and the kitchen (one drawer), finished that prayer shawl I mentioned, and touched up some paint on the walls in my kitchen.  It feels like a deep sigh or the first day of summer when I finish something small like that.  Definitely one of my favorite things.  I'm easy. 

That reminds me of that song "I'm easy like Sunday morning."  Are Sunday mornings easy around your house?  That guy must not go to church. 

Anyway . . .