Simpler Lifer

Ten principles for
living a simpler life

1. Know your top three priorities. Whether that's family, faith, and work or fun, food and friends, you'll make better time decisions when your values are straight in your mind.

2. Make your priorities a priority. It's one thing to talk the talk. Walk the walk, too, and let your commitments reflect your values.

3. Always move forward. A balanced life isn't static; it's keeping a secure hold on your values, goals, and dreams while you grow, learn, change, and love.

4. Be honest with yourself. Your gut (not to mention your conscience!) knows what it's talking about; listen up when it's telling you something.

5. Know your limits. "No" is the right response when the request doesn't fit in with your life priorities--no guilt required.

6. Let go when you can't be in control. When you can't change something, don't waste time worrying: work around it or forget about it.

7. Face chores cheerfully. No matter how well you prioritize your time, mundane tasks go with the territory. Embrace the everyday, and time will fly.

8. Spend smartly. Everything you buy is a direct result of the time you spend working. Make sure your hours are purchasing something worthwhile.

9. Love your home. A space that provides sanctuary and gives you pleasure is essential for your well-being.

10. Take time for yourself. You'll never find time to simplify your life if you don't give it to yourself.

If found this site blog surfing...of course! It was very refreshing. Sometimes, we all need a little reality check, and this was mine. My GOAL is to live a simple life, but somehow life just gets too crazy! Can anyone relate?? But, I figure that if I keep these things on the forefront of my mind, things are bound to improve! The hardest on that list for me are #5 and #6... for sure.

Here is the website if you guys want to check it out :)

www.smartsimplewoman.com

The New Blog!

Alright, well I think that it's a go! If you are interested in posting, send me an email and I will give you the username and password, then, we will post away!!! I'm pretty excited about it :) Also, my friend Shannon guided me to a really awesome blog. It's dedicated to husbands, and it's just a really sweet way to honor them. Check it out...it's on my site under "Happy Wives". I will let you all know about updates on the new blog shortly!

Anyone Interested???

Ok... well.....I was just thinking that most of my "friends" who blog are wives, girls, sisters, friends, workers, etc. So, tell me what you think about this proposal.... What if some of us started a blog together?! We could still obviously have our own sites that would be our primary sites, but we could have a site where we could all help each other out. Whether it be dinner recipes, cleaning tips, fun stories about being any of the different "roles" as I mentioned above, or just anything that we think would be helpful or uplifting to all the other ladies out there in the world...what do you guys think? Anyone interested? Let me know....

Thanks girls!

Hair Improvements

Adam and I made some changes to our hair. Adam shaved his beard off, well...first he made sure we could see what a mustache would look like on himethough :) And I made the move to lighten my hair...I was so done with the dark. I'm still getting use to it, but I think I like it! Just thought I'd let you guys in on the changes....

Adam: Pre-Shaven Creepy Mustache Man!
Adam: Post-shave & My Hair Pre-dyedMy hair: Post Dyed!

Note: If you look close enough, you can even see the "infamous" Cold Sore!

P.S. I Love You

I just watched this movie tonight. I was wondering if I should, since losing my husband is like my WORST fear! But it was really good. Definitely my kind of movie. It had just enough laughter and crying for a girl to get all her emotions out :) But it did make me think about losing Adam. The sad part is that it happens to a lot of people. And I can't be naive to think that we are invincible. It gives me so much respect for those who have lost someone. It takes GREAT strength & courage to keep going.

As I'm writing this tonight, Adam isn't at home. He is at a concert...Demon Hunter & Living Sacrifice...not my kind of gig. But I'm all paranoid and can't sleep until he's home;thanks be to the movie! :( Bummer.

Thanks for being a time-filler for me everyone!

Sweet Home Alabama & Cold Sores

How's that for a title! Ha Ha!! Ok, so let me explain. A few days into my guitar lessons, Adam asked me which "popular" riff (spelling?) I would like to play. So, I chose "Sweet Home Alabama". It's coming along...learning guitar is so frustrating though because you can hear the song in your head, but your fingers won't play the song fast enough! AHHHH!

And now for the cold sore part. I woke up last night around 1:00am and had a tingling feeling on my lip...I know what that means....a MASSIVE cold sore is coming. And it did. So, my question to all of you is ... Do you know any really good cold sore remedies? I have seriously tried everything and NOTHING works....Or if it does work, it works only once, then the next time it seems to make it worse....please HELP! Everytime I have a cold sore, I feel like everyone is staring at it, and I want it to go away as fast as possible!!!

P.S. I know that this is a SUPER random post!

Thanks guys!

Guitar Lessons

My lovely husband is going to start giving me guitar lessons. I have always wanted to be able to play an instrument, and who better to teach me than my patient husband. Once I master guitar, I want to learn piano. I would love to be able to write some of my own songs some day, and I have written a couple in the past, but it's soooo hard to write a song without music. So, now I will make some music. Hooray for 20 minute sessions per night! So far, I have learned 2 cords: E and A. Here I come B,C, D, & G.....I think...

I'll let you know how I am improving :)