How to Make an Old Closet into a Play Room in 9 steps
Note: I’ll spare you the real before photo of our pre-attic closet disaster, and go straight for the cute photos of how to make room for the play room. I know, it hurts my before-and-after loving gene, not to have documentation of my [...]
Welcome 2009!
We had a merry-filled evening with good cheer, french bread with olive oil and cracked pepper, and loved ones (Neat Pete’s brother Tim and our sis-in-law, Lisa).
Ry got to stay up late, 9:30 p.m., to celebrate. He had no idea what the big deal was about New Years, he just wanted the ‘berry pop’, [...]
One of my goals for The Simplicity Project (TSP) was to reduce the chaos in our only family common area. Today we officially started a Bin-A-Week approach to toy storage in the living room.
3 weeks and 2 days ago Neat Pete and I sorted the living room toys with a fine tooth comb. Some toys [...]
Sanctuary
Individuality
Motivating
Purposeful
Living
Imaginative
Connectivity
Intelligent
Teamwork
Yert (Yes well, yerts (hut-like structures) are simple anyway! What else was I going to type for Y?)
The Simplicity Project (TSP) is big. What I am finding is that TSP is not made up of one big idea or plan. It is, however, made up of a lot of little ideas, attitudes, and of course projects. I haven’t dumped out every toy in hopes of restructuring the whole house in one day…yet.
I [...]
The kids are back! Where did they go? Well nowhere physically. However I can feel their sweetness return again. I go in and out of cycles with my kids of joy and frustration. I just spent the last few days joining the cycle of joy again. I hope to stay there too it is way [...]
TSP is well under way like dreams in my head. Dreams are the fertilizer for my idea seeds. My first idea seed was was to remove everything from the living room, including selling the TV, for a month. We have a beyond well-worn and stained carpet to rip out in that room and a new [...]
I have an idea or the seed for an idea called The Simplicity Project. Sounds big because it is. It will come to me as I exist in each day discovering it. I plan to chronicle my efforts right here for you. It is my hope you will join the campaign too. Here are my [...]
