Simplify..

My Husband & I are on a huge quest to SIMPLIFY. 

 We have so much stuff.  The boys have so much stuff.  I feel overwhelmed by stuff & that's just plain crazy.

I'm trying to simplify our lives in other ways as well.  I LOVE this blog.  She is a seasoned Mother of a large family & has some amazing knowledge about simplicity parenting. I read this quote on her blog a few weeks ago & it definitely spoke to me.

"Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all."

Julie Beck

 

Our society tells us we need to be doing so much & we need to have so much.  Well I'm here to tell you....WE DON'T.  I feel much more at peace without a busy, crammed schedule and so do my kids.  I can even tell a difference in our 12 week old when we've had a rushed kind of day. 

Since we've started cleaning out the house & decluttering I just feel better!!

I was really bad when we first had Jackson & bought WAY too much stuff for him.  You know the whole..."I want my kid to have the best" thing....well, I do still want the best for my boys...I've just realized the best isn't what we first thought it was.  I've learned that he does better with less.  When he has too many options he just acts like a wild child & has a hard time focusing on one thing.  We completely cleaned out the playroom yesterday.  Its so much more manageable now.  We even took the big tv out & you know what??  He hasn't cared one bit.  He played so much better in there yesterday than I think he ever has. 

 

Less IS more. 

 

 

We've been saving everything we've been getting rid of & putting it in the garage for a big yard sale we are planning in the Spring....I'll tell you more about that later....it's part of our cliff hanger from my last post.  :)

 

This quest for a simpler life is ongoing.  We're constantly bombarded with this society of too much and I refuse to let it take over my life (as I have been doing).  I'm raising these children with the end result in mind & enjoying them as they are.  I can't do that if I'm too busy taking care of a bunch of stuff we don't need.

 

 

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates