Catching up with life

As you can tell by the date of the post before this one and this one, I've been a little lax on updating.

In short:

Moved into the new house
Hubs got the job of his dreams
Kiddo started kindergarten
I've been madly keeping everything in order.

Lots of other things to mention along the way, but no real need.  On my to-do list is to create a photo story of all that happened between then and now.

Spring is nipping at our heels, and that means the 40 bags in 40 days challenge. Basically for the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter, you aim to remove one bag of clutter from your house every day. The definition of "bag" is very loose -- the goal is to reduce what holds you down in your life and assess what truly matters to keep.

Long and short, we've been doing the 40 bags/40 days challenge for four or five years now. It is a great way to go through belongings and really assess what is important in life.

After the second year, I wondered if it would be possible to get 40 bags out of the house in general. Compared with a lot of people we know, we have very few belongings. Yet, as we get ready to start this year, I think 40 bags is very do-able.

What I'm going to do a little different this year is document *how* we go through things, in the hopes that if someone else is trying to figure out where to begin, they can see if the method we use works for them.

I'm also reading the book Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondo while I go through the 40 bags/40 days process.

Hopefully I'll be able to get a dozen posts up to show the process of cleaning around here, but if not, I do plan to post more frequently than annually! ;)