"The Merits of Messiness"

Is everybody's closet clean??? At the dentist office today I was skimming through the Ladies Home Journal (Feb 07) issue and came across an interesting article: It was titled "The Merits of Messiness"
"The idea that clutter can make the world a better place runs counter to everything we've been taught. What's so great about messiness? When you allow disorder, randomness and the unexpected into your world, many good things happen. You save the time and money that you would have spent trying to maintain order. If you have a tightly scheduled calendar, it's easy for something to go wrong, so super-neat people must constantly work at staying in control. But when you're kind of messy, if something unexpected happens you can deal with it more easily. And you also gain tremendous flexibility. For example, when you're tidy, you put that guitar away in a closet. If you're messy, you leave it around where you may happen upon it and rediscover the passion for playing. "

Less is More!

Clean out your closets, get rid of your clutter, throw away garbage, hold a garage sale, get rid of broken stuff or projects you have had longer than two years and have not touched. Give it to a thrift store, or share with someone whether or not they have a need! Get rid of STUFF! DO IT NOW!!!
Thank you!

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THE FAM

Oh What a Hoot!

We had a grand time in Leavenworth! The place we stayed had a pool and a playground area for the kids and other lots of fun things to do. I think Owen expressed it best when it was time to go...

Leavenworth!

We're off to Leavenworth for the night-Hope tomorrow evening. The WHOLE family will be together...Smith's, Kate, Hannah, Ethan & Heidi! What a party! Jane will be there too!

Tea Time

I used to think that I might someday want to do a tea catering business. I did one this Spring for a group of Bible study ladies and though as much fun as it was, it wasn't worth all the work to make me want to pursue it as a business. It took three people to pull it off (It WAS a grand tea!) for 13 people and the supplies were about $80. So even in a business charging people $10 each, it would have been only a return of $50 split 3 ways. That doesn't even include if a teacup were to break or whatever. So...Now we have tea time at the house all the time whenever people stop by. Our favorite Tetley Tea comes from Canada. It's Black Currant. It's time for another trip north as we drank our last cup about a week ago. When was YOUR last cuppa?