The most stressful part of my week has been that I have an entire stack of library books to read and haven’t had the chance to get into them yet and they’re all going to be due soon and so I may need to return some without reading them, only to put holds on them again. The tragedy of it all! Bu seriously, that’s how good my week has been. My stressful isn’t stressful at all. We’ve been healthy, we’ve been happy, we’ve been productive, and we’ve found time to relax together.
I’ve been working on a few things: blog rebranding, blogging in general, listing our Airbnb, decorating our house, raising a small human and growing an even smaller human… but it’s all getting done and going well and I can’t complain.
Today I’ve praising God for ‘normal’ weeks.
There’s something about getting into our normal routine that feels so very nice and refreshing. I like this 2016 thing.
Things I’ve Read on the Web
// “Sure, you’ll make new friends in the future—at work, through your spouse, through your kids—but you won’t get to that Tier 1 brothers level, or even to Tier 2, with very many of them, because people who meet as adults don’t tend to get through the 100+ long, lazy hangouts needed to reach a bond of that strength. As time goes on, you start to realize that the 20-year frenzy of not-especially-thought-through haphazard friend-making you just did was the critical process of you making most of your lifelong friends.” (here)
// In this transition between decluttering and minimalism, I have found that I am moving on from getting rid of extras, spares and unused items. That, to me, is the essence of ‘decluttering’. But I have already pared down my wardrobe, the children’s toys, the kitchen equipment. There are no more bags of clothes or plastic tubs to be shipped easily out of the house. Now I consider parting with clothes I still wear sometimes or craft supplies I could potentially use. The difference is that I am no longer just ridding myself of excess but removing functional belongings because the simplicity of living without them is better than the value they add. Because of this, parting with items now happens at a much, much slower rate and with a great deal of thought. (here)
// “He’s inviting me into living differently. He’s inviting and knocking and wooing and I keep looking around distracted for more bread. He’s pointing out the leaven of the Herods of the world, the ones telling me to hurry up and produce and ship, and he’s warning me of how something as small as selfish ambition could ruin the whole batch. But I can’t hear it because I’m all, Where is the bread! I need me some bread! There isn’t enough. I’m not going to be okay.” (here)
// “People who deliberately exercised their signature strengths on a daily basis — those qualities they were uniquely best at, the talents that set them apart from others – became significantly happier for months.” (here)
Tell me, how has your week been?!
