We are moving. We are excited. We think this is the best thing for our family. We love our neighbors, friends, and ward. We are not getting kicked out of our home. We are not destitute. We are not crazy. We do not have round worm. We are simply on a mission to simplify. I will keep you posted from time to time on how well I do at simplifying. Right now it seems like cake, but right now I haven't done much to simplify so...ask me in a month.
I can't even say the word simplify without laughing because I went to that blog: Seriously, So Blessed that really mocks our culture, and it dawned on me that I am this "culture". I was reading several sections, and was dying laughing, and then I would read a section, and be like that wasn't that funny. (because it pertained to something I do.)
Anyway there was an entry about simplifying....About how she was going to simplify:
~~~SiMpLiFy!~~~
This is my darling new slogan and I am putting it EVERYWHERE: ginormous glittery wood letters in dinning room, vinyl in kitchen, stickers on clocks, scrapbooked pitcher frames in living room, handpainted on the damask upstairs, seriously, EVERYWHERE. Made JJWT, Alivyiah & Tridger binders with color-coded simplicity instructions for every day of the week {with a complicated reward system} and then called all the people in my home biz donwline & invited them to buy wood letters that say SIMPLIFY for a 30% discount if they color code there closets and binders the same way! Also I brain-storm'd some rules to help me.My goals for being more SIMPLIFY:
1. be way less materialistic
2. own a buttload of shoes
3. grow my hair way past my boobs
4. put everything in this font
That isn't my exact list, but she was pretty close. :)
9 comments:
Whit - you are such a kick! What should we do with Garrett's stuff?
What.....you're moving????? Where have you been all my life. We aren't even friends. We need to chat. Where are you guys going? Or are you kidding? Let me know.
Simplifying is noble and all but we need some DEETS! Like to where are you going???
I so don't talk to you enough, I don't know anything about your life! I agree with the other entries, we need more details. Let me know how the simplifying is going-I fell out of control.
Did you sell?? Are you going to buy the house down the street from me or are you going to India? Let me know!!
yeah FOR ME!!!! I am so excited!! I am sure we will be over the swine flu by the time you get here!
This is so you!
One day, one friend asked another,
"How is it that you are always so happy?
You have so much energy,
and you never seem to get down.
With her eyes smiling, she said,
'I know the Secret!'
'What secret is that?'
To which she replied,
'I'll tell you all about it,
but you have to promise to
share the Secret with others.'
'The Secret is this:
I have learned there is little I can do in my life that will make me truly happy.
I must depend on God to make
me happy and to meet my needs.
When a need arises in my life,
I have to trust God to supply
according to HIS riches.
I have learned most of the time
I don't need half of what I think I do.
He has never let me down.
Since I learned that 'Secret', I am happy.'
The questioner's first thought was,
'That's too simple!'
But upon reflecting over her own life she recalled how she thought a bigger house would make her happy, but it didn't!
She thought a better paying job
would make her happy, but it hadn't.
When did she realize her greatest happiness? Sitting on the floor with her children playing games, eating pizza or reading a story, a simple gift from God.
Now you know it too!
We can't depend on people to make us happy.
Only GOD in His infinite wisdom can do that.
Trust HIM!
And now I pass the Secret on to you!
So once you get it, what will you do?
YOU have to tell someone the Secret, too! That GOD in His wisdom will take care of YOU!
But it's not really a secret...
We just have to believe it and do it...
Really trust God!
Do your best; let God do the rest.
Today I pray your troubles be less,
May your blessings be more,
and May nothing but happiness
come through your door!!
I rely on my "happy pills" to make me happy!! hahahaha
Where are you moving to? You didn't mention that part.
We miss you!
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