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Alright....due to my dear husband's loving prompting, "You need to put some new crap on here" I thought I would just update and say new stuff is coming. Spring cleaning in is full swing. We had plans to do a garage sale in Fort Worth this weekend but got rained and cold fronted out of it. Typical Texas for you. But, in dragging every last thing we own out of closets, attics, playroom and drawers it looks quite like the house threw up all over our property. I'm quite assured that someone could have set an atomic bomb off here and it would look no different. But, I am feeling good and only slightly overwhelmed at this point. We have mounds and mounds of donation piles, a 600 sq ft playroom of stuff to be yard saled and then yet another pile or two or three of just sheer trash. I have decluttered every year since before me moved here so I am certain that given 2 more years or so we will have nothing but a few clothes and a few beds left to our name. It feels good. I am of the strong opinion that once you become burdened by your own possessions you become a slave to them. When there is freedom from earthly things there is freedom to move in the Spirit and "where the Spirit of the wind shall blow" we have the ability to move freely. Yes indeed!

So, we downsize yet again. Even beloved Pepperoni and Oregano found a new home at Mother's. Fish, as low maintenance as they are, still take up space and still have water to be changed and food to be fed. And since we no longer have a dining room table at the moment then they sat on the bookshelf and became"out of sight and out of mind"....which easily translates into starvation mode around here. So, they went to Mother's where the children can visit them often yet still be cared for and tended to much better. The dining room table even went in this decluttering event. We no longer fit at it anyway so it really served little purpose than to seat the children for lunch. Grayson and I disassembled it and readied it for the Uhaul load up to Mother's for the yard sale. They are now picnic-ing at the coffee table with foldable camping chairs gathered around it. The goal is to eventually purchase 2 long utility fold up tables at Sam's and put folding chairs around them. That should seat all of us and a few more when we have company. It'll be easy clean up too. As of now, there's a vinyl fish shower curtain taped to the coffee table and we are all more than impressed at the simple and easy clean up it creates. I'm thinking vinyl table cloth when we make the move up to the dressy and formal folding tables. Simple is good.

So.....for now our days are packed full of spring cleaning and once again making life simple and enjoyable. Unburdened by worldly possessions. I wake early and fall asleep exhausted once children are bedded down for the night. More to come...along with pictures....of our spring cleaning event. And, more pictures of sweet Ivye since I realized she is now almost 5 months old and I have little to no pictures of her on here. She continues to be the sweetest, happiest, cutest thing ever.