What Motivates Me?

A friend introduced me to Home Sanctuary earlier this year. I soon became a regular visitor, and a Small Thing completer. Over the summer, with the kids being home, my husband traveling, summer vacations, and the kids being home all day, my visits lessened. When the kids returned to school I was determined to returned to the Small Things, except with all the summer excitement the house was a wreck and I've spent the month deep cleaning.

So here we are in October, my how the year flew by, and I'm back on the Small Things caravan. If you are visiting today you are probably on the Small Things caravan already, but if not why not give it a try. The Small Things are more then just household chores, just see October's first two activities.

October 1st Rachel Anne asked us to empty out our pockets, or was it fill our pockets? Pockets of time that is. I am very bad at remembering it only takes a few minutes to complete small tasks like folding a load of laundry, emptying the dishwasher, or wiping down the kitchen cabinets. I seem to think it takes large chunks of time to pick up a pile of books and put them away, making the bed, or even hanging up the fall wreath. Yes, all little tasks I manage to not complete until the piles around our house grow to toppling, at which time they become a time consuming task. What I am crossing off my pocket list is checking email. I don't get that much email to be checking it every half-hour (and reading a blog, surfing over to ebay, checking monthly specials at my favorite shopping sites, ...) Needless to say checking my email (and more) is eating into my time pockets.

Yesterday we were encouraged to write, or update, our Housekeeping Mission Statement. Sorry to say I was completely unoriginal and borrowed Rachel Anne's from January. What can I say, but it fit perfectly with what I would like to accomplish around here. In the past we, my husband and I, have written mission statements for the family. OK, it was once, at the beginning of the year, and the theme for the year as The Year of Growth. When your house is over-flowing with little ones there is much growing happening, year, after year, after year. (And that would be my excuse for not having changed it for several years.)

And though I copied borrowed the mission statement it has reminded me to review my motivations as I go through each day, and what it is I want to accomplish within myself and my family. So, stay tuned. In the coming months I may post a new (and entirely written by me) mission statement. Right after I fold the laundry, pick up the books, make the bed (today I'm pulling out the flannel sheets, yeah!) and hang the fall wreath on the front door.

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