Living Large In Our Little House

You know when you’re hav­ing one of those weeks when it just doesn’t seem any­thing is work­ing out as you planned and you’re not mak­ing any traction?

Welcome to my week.

When I went to sleep on Sunday, relaxed from hav­ing spent the full week­end with Dale doing things we like to do, I had all kinds of energy and things on my to-do list for Monday and beyond:

• Get back to yoga classes
• Finish all of my assign­ment dead­lines on time and get ahead in my work
• Start at least our after­noon walks again with the dogs
• Organize the kitchen
• Finish wash­ing clothes and rotat­ing the closet

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A sun­set over the lake

Finding Balance.

This sum­mer will be remem­bered for a lot at Our Little House, but the cen­tral theme seems to be about find­ing balance:

In my work, home chores, declut­ter­ing, gar­den­ing, vol­un­teer­ing and even in my read­ing.

In the wake of los­ing Emma, it has also become about find­ing a bal­ance once again for our two large dogs, Sade and Chloe. In my post a few weeks ago, I asked why chil­dren today are bored? There was a good dis­cus­sion as to why par­ents might be wary of let­ting chil­dren out to roam and play…it’s a big scary world.

I might now apply that to why my two big dogs are bored.

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