PEASE NOTE THAT THIS BLOG POST IS OLD. FOR SOME REASON IT NEVER GOT PUBLISHED! (PROBABLY BECAUSE I DID NOT FINISH WRITING IT! BUT I FEEL LIKE IT HAS GOOD STUFF IN IT AND WOULD LOVE TO POST IT NOW!)
It has been quite a while since I posted! Kenny and I have celebrated our first yerar of marriage (post on that and pictures to come) and made a few important decisions. Kenny and I are about to make some major changes in our lives; Changes we are welcoming with open arms.
Decisions: We are packing up the apartment that I have lived in for five years and moving in with his mother and step father for about six months. During that six month time we are hoping to pay off the debt that we have as well as fall in love with a house to buy. Most people I tell our plans warn me about living with my MIL, but I'm not too worried! I was blessed with in-laws that I get along with and love as much as my own parents. I will miss having our own place and space, but know that this is the right path for us if we want a house in the near future. Which we very much do!
Decluttering:
I am starting to get that nesting feeling. Spring cleaning like whoa is going on up in the Nye apartment. I am getting rid of the clutter that i have been hanging onto because you never know when you might need that essay that you wrote back in high school. Or all the teddy bears that used to cover my bed. Oh, and all the pink that used to be my bedroom that I took down for my husband. After living on my own for 6 years and in one place for five of those six, I find that I have accumulated a ton of junk. None of this junk do I want to take with me in to a home that I will bring my first child home to. When we have a home, I want it to be clutter free and ready to fill with things that really matter.... like baby clothes that I just can't get rid of and story books that have been worn out from the many bedtime stories that have been read from the pages. I don't want to lose the memories of my start or from the beginning of mine and my husbands relationship, but how can I purge with out thinking everything is going to be a lost memory? Well first of all I have figured out that half the items I kept because I just knew it would remind me of that one time that we went to that one place... I really can't recall why we went there or what we did or who was with us. Dump! The things that I am for sure keeping are the items that I can place with a special day. I'm getting rid of those ticket stubs for every movie we saw together in our first year of dating and the boxes from every piece of jewelry he has given me. As long as I keep the jewelry I have that memory, the velvet box is not what matters! Whenever I see those movies on TV I will recall that date night... but those stubbs are worn out and hard to read and will fill my trashcan nicely! I am loving the weeding out process. It feels like I am de-cluttering my whole life. Just like people who do nothing but bring you down, I had junk that was bringing me down and I had to get rid of it. I gave at least four bags of clothes, a giant box of books, and a box of shoes to goodwill. With each bag of trash I throw out I can feel the space around me getting lighter and I can see how pleased it makes the husband! ;) I really want to continue the de-cluttering process every year. The is no reason to take a stuffed animal from childhood into the retirement home!
It has been quite a while since I posted! Kenny and I have celebrated our first yerar of marriage (post on that and pictures to come) and made a few important decisions. Kenny and I are about to make some major changes in our lives; Changes we are welcoming with open arms.
Decisions: We are packing up the apartment that I have lived in for five years and moving in with his mother and step father for about six months. During that six month time we are hoping to pay off the debt that we have as well as fall in love with a house to buy. Most people I tell our plans warn me about living with my MIL, but I'm not too worried! I was blessed with in-laws that I get along with and love as much as my own parents. I will miss having our own place and space, but know that this is the right path for us if we want a house in the near future. Which we very much do!
Decluttering:
I am starting to get that nesting feeling. Spring cleaning like whoa is going on up in the Nye apartment. I am getting rid of the clutter that i have been hanging onto because you never know when you might need that essay that you wrote back in high school. Or all the teddy bears that used to cover my bed. Oh, and all the pink that used to be my bedroom that I took down for my husband. After living on my own for 6 years and in one place for five of those six, I find that I have accumulated a ton of junk. None of this junk do I want to take with me in to a home that I will bring my first child home to. When we have a home, I want it to be clutter free and ready to fill with things that really matter.... like baby clothes that I just can't get rid of and story books that have been worn out from the many bedtime stories that have been read from the pages. I don't want to lose the memories of my start or from the beginning of mine and my husbands relationship, but how can I purge with out thinking everything is going to be a lost memory? Well first of all I have figured out that half the items I kept because I just knew it would remind me of that one time that we went to that one place... I really can't recall why we went there or what we did or who was with us. Dump! The things that I am for sure keeping are the items that I can place with a special day. I'm getting rid of those ticket stubs for every movie we saw together in our first year of dating and the boxes from every piece of jewelry he has given me. As long as I keep the jewelry I have that memory, the velvet box is not what matters! Whenever I see those movies on TV I will recall that date night... but those stubbs are worn out and hard to read and will fill my trashcan nicely! I am loving the weeding out process. It feels like I am de-cluttering my whole life. Just like people who do nothing but bring you down, I had junk that was bringing me down and I had to get rid of it. I gave at least four bags of clothes, a giant box of books, and a box of shoes to goodwill. With each bag of trash I throw out I can feel the space around me getting lighter and I can see how pleased it makes the husband! ;) I really want to continue the de-cluttering process every year. The is no reason to take a stuffed animal from childhood into the retirement home!
