I think I've confessed to my hoarding tendencies and if I haven't....well, here's my confession. I love things and if I have one I have a hundred. I also exaggerate but that's a different post topic. I am seeing a correlation to hoarding and eating. The more I have, the more I want. The Flylady system deals with uncluttering your house and also uncluttering your body. A friend is reading a book about the Japanese art of uncluttering. I believe the author is Marie Kondo (or something like that). In her system you pull out everything (topic-wise). So she asks you to gather every book in your house and my friend did this and piled them all up in her living room. I told her I'd have a great big mess after doing that and a pile of books in my living room for weeks because I'd just be too tired to put them away or give them away or whatever. She laughed and said yes, there is that risk, but now she has a visual every time she walks into Barnes and Noble to buy a gift card and ooooh shiny....sees a book she wants. That visual reminder helps her to keep on walking and just buy the gift card. This system works for her. I'm really not sure it would work for me. I do think I prefer the Flylady system if I'd only use it. And here comes the hoarding/collecting part....I'm collecting different books/ systems to uncluttering! Now do you see what's wrong with this picture?
Speaking of pictures, yesterday I asked Hubby to take a picture of all the ladies. He did and I've sprouted horns (HA, some of y'all knew that!). I'm not sure if the caption should read "hook 'em, horns" or "it ain't over till the fat lady sings!" LOL
It was good being with the moms yesterday. BTW..
Happy belated Mother's Day. Here is my definition of a Mother. Someone (non-gender specific) who takes care of anyone/ any thing. If you have a nurturing bone in your body whether it is taking care of children/ parents/ patients/ fur babies/ plants/ or a pet rock....you celebrate this day. Many grieve this day because someone has passed on and it is a reminder that they are no longer physically here. Unfortunately for some it is also a reminder of what was never. Never feeling a mother's love, never having children, never.... Mother's Day can be hard,but we have to remember it is one day out of the year and I can choose to do something too. It is not a passive day but a day to celebrate ME. It's time to get selfish and choose ME. Does that sound un-motherly? ;)
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