Our Purpose

Welcome! Please read our "about" page to get a little more information as to what brought us here and why. We are here to help and we are here to give any information we can for you to be free in whatever capacity in your life. I am not only here because I love to …

Minimalist Baby Steps

If you are at all like me, then you want to jump right in to minimalism and start trashing things left and right. That is, if your mind is bigger than your reality, like mine was. When I was at work I would picture doing all these great things at Super Mom speed and in …

Minimizing Family Pets

No, I am not asking you to minimize your pets if you have too many.  Right now we have 2 dogs and 2 cats. This is actually the most animals we have had at one time together. But let me back up a little... My husband and I have lost 2 of our dogs that …

Minimizing Emotional Ties

If you read my blogs on A Mother's Worst Nightmare you may be wondering what the heck that has to do with minimizing. Well, I guess it's a process. I still have that hope chest to go through and I guess I am just working toward that goal. I feel that the emotional ties with …

A Mother’s Worst Nightmare Part 4

I was not ready to give up. I was not ready for hospice. Caitlin was almost 3 years old and that alone was a miracle. Most children with this type of brain tumor would not have even made it to age two. She had come so far. She had fought so hard. Why would I …

Minimize your purse!

I used to have a tiny purse, but found that with kids and a husband I am apparently the "stuff holder". So, I do have a large-ish purse and it does collect all sorts of crazy things. I decided this morning that it needs to be minimized as much as possible and now! Dumping out …

Let’s Try This Again (Cont.)

As you know from my, Ok Let's Try This Again! post,  I had a weekend purge planned. Although I literally pictured myself having garbage bags in hand and just shoving everything in site into them, it went a little differently. It is so funny how we can picture it happening, but then our dumb emotions turn …

Ok Lets Try This Again!

I was so proud of myself. Our family had gotten it together and threw away a bunch of crap. We were living a minimalist life. Then we moved... Wow. I was so angry at how much I still had. I was ready to just leave everything that was left and not look back. Of course, …

A Mother’s Worst Nightmare Part 3

Wow, I really didn't think I would write this much, but I guess I needed to. Once Caitlin's steroids really started kicking in she was very hard to handle. She would literally go around knocking everything over and was always hungry. She wouldn't sleep much either. It was very hard to stay calm and understanding …

A Mother’s Worst Nightmare Part 2

tun·nel vi·sion noun defective sight in which objects cannot be properly seen if not close to the center of the field of view This is exactly what happened. Nothing else in the world existed outside of this tunnel. I can't even explain how this feels other than when someone close to you has died. That …

Valentine’s (Expectations) Day

So, Valentine's Day is upon us. My husband and I have never celebrated this retail, gimme-gimme, woman's holiday. I have to say that I actually feel sorry for the guys. I mean have you seen them in a panic at the grocery store on the way home on Valentine's Day? I refuse to take part …