Happy New Year!\u00a0 I am starting over.\u00a0 Really I am.\u00a0 Maybe what I need to do to keep this blog going is to set up more posts in advance.<\/p>\n
To kick off the new year I am focusing on cleaning my house.\u00a0 With a toddler running around I am finding more and more things he shouldn’t touch and things that are just in the way.\u00a0 I have also been looking forward to when he is a school age kid and wants to have a friend over or when he is a teenager.\u00a0 Hopefully we will have moved by the teen years (and the elementary school years, God willing), but I don’t want the CHAOS<\/a> to follow us.\u00a0 We hardly have anyone over now, but I want to have more time with my “new mommy” friends next summer.<\/p>\n I typically overestimate the amount of time it will take to clean up a spot.\u00a0 I am also a perfectionist.\u00a0 It keeps me from doing a lot of things.\u00a0 If I can’t do it right, I am not going to do it.\u00a0 Driving (I was 20 before I got my license), auditioning (I would love to be in a show, but I won’t audition if I am not going to get the part), knitting (I have no “first swatch” to show, because I ripped everything out).\u00a0 If I can’t make my closet look exactly how I want it to look I would rather not put my clothes away.\u00a0 I don’t cook because I am afraid of messing up.\u00a0 I don’t hang art or photos on my walls (partly because they are 160 year old plaster and lathe) because I am don’t want to regret where I hung things.\u00a0 Crafts, school work, packing, and house work.\u00a0 These are all things I get anxious about.\u00a0 I am working on that.<\/p>\n I have started the decluttering with Christmas.\u00a0 As I got out and put away ornaments I put some aside.\u00a0 I filled a bag with ornaments I have received from students over the years so I can hang them on my tree at school.\u00a0 I also pulled ornaments out for my sister.\u00a0 She really likes angels, so she is getting all my angels plus some that don’t really fit my newly established “themes”.\u00a0 Any she doesn’t want will go to our church for the next Christmas bazaar.\u00a0 I have decided to stick with some themes for decorating next year.\u00a0 Snowmen, stars, primary colors, ornaments that represent things that happened during the year, and Hallmark ornaments.\u00a0 I would like to get a small tree for my son’s room to hang snowmen ornaments on.\u00a0 When we have a bigger place I would like to have more than 1 tree.\u00a0 I envision one that is all stars and white lights, one that is my Hallmark ornaments (mostly Peanuts and Wizard of Oz), and one that is ornaments we have made or represent our years as a family.<\/p>\n There is so much more in my home I need to weed out, but that’s a story for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy New Year! I am starting over. Really I am. Maybe what I need to do to keep this blog going is to set up more posts in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-disorderly-conduct","tag-weekend","post_format-post-format-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}