Well, there you have it. I have admitted to the public that I procrastinate. Okay. In reality, those who know me best already know that I am a procrastinator with a capital P!

So, if you don’t mind, I am not only going to use this little blog of mine to keep friends and family informed of all the ups and downs of our new journey. I am ALSO going to use it to ask those same friends and family to keep me accountable… Will you do that for me? Will you walk this journey with my family and me? I would SO love to take you all with us literally. But, since that isn’t very realistic (you know, there’s only so much room in one truck!), I will take you along figuratively.

So, where shall we start? Hmmm… I know. I REALLY need to get crackin’ on selling all our stuff! I know, I know. Some will read that and think, “She’s lost her ever-lovin’ mind!” But, you know, I had what I like to call an epiphany (no, not a feast… an aha moment) this summer while the kids and I were at church camp. No matter what memory might be associated with any item, it’s still just stuff. It is stuff that takes up room. It is stuff that needs to be dusted. For the most part, to be honest, it is stuff that has lived in plastic totes for years! Why? We really don’t have anywhere to display it. I mean, do I REALLY need 80+ nativity scenes? No, I don’t believe I do anymore. I collected them for years. I had wonderful family and friends who bought them for me as gifts or as souvenirs from trips. Trips they had taken, mind you, not that I had taken. I finally realized that a picture will take FAR less storage space and won’t need to be dusted!

More importantly… I have simply come to the realization that we put far too much emphasis on material possessions. I should know. I’ve been guilty of doing just that for a very long time. I have been reading the blogs of other wonderful women on the internet for more than a couple of years and have been thinking about how great it would be to simplify our home. How wonderful it would be to finally empty all those plastic totes that are just taking up space.
NO MORE PROCRASTINATING!!! We are GOING to simplify our lives in so many ways. We may complicate it a bit too, along the way but that’s okay. It’ll be fun! I need to go get the camera and back drop out and begin taking photos so I can post them on eBay. Maybe I can recoup just a little of what I have spent over the years… Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, it just needs to GO!

Have a blessed day, y’all
Jennie