June 29, 2009 by Marci | 4 Comments
I have made a general weekly menu for my family for years. Why? Because I don’t like wandering around a grocery store aimless for hours on end and then going home with a cart full of stuff with nothing to eat for dinner. Then, there’s that feeling at 5 o’clock when I am standing in [...]
June 26, 2009 by Marci | 6 Comments
This week, for Get Your Creative On, I am totally stealing a friend’s idea for a cool summer treat. I have always struggled with coming up with new treats for the kids. A couple summers ago, my friend Nita shared this great tip for making “ice cream” sandwiches. My kids loved them! And they [...]
June 24, 2009 by Marci | 3 Comments
Yesterday, I posted about the new online retailer “Alice”, which almost sounded too good to be true. Read more here. But, I was desparate to find a WalMart alternative, so I placed an order just to test it out. Well, I placed my order 26 hours ago and the UPS man just delivered it to [...]
June 24, 2009 by Marci | 4 Comments
Well, I’ve been sitting at my laptop for 45 minutes. Have I written a blog post? Have I gone over the bank statement? Have I checked the weather? Have I checked the library schedule? Those are all things that I wanted to do when I sat down here. Have I accomplished any of those goals? [...]
June 23, 2009 by Marci | 5 Comments
This morning, I received an email that Alice was open for business. It took a minute to figure out what that meant. Then, I remembered I stumbled upon an article about a new online retailer promising to make shopping for my basic household stuff easier. I visited the under-construction version of the site and [...]
June 22, 2009 by Marci | 4 Comments
My blog friend Kirwin at Gracefully Creative has a weekly feature called “Edit, Add, Appreciate” that I have always found interesting, but something that I really needed to take the time to think about. The whole idea is to get yourself to examine where you are in life and what is important to you (kind [...]
June 19, 2009 by Marci | 1 Comment
For the past couple days, some of you have had trouble loading the last post on Overcoming Busy. I’m happy to report the technical difficulties have been resolved! Turns out I just skipped a step in transferring my post from Word to Wordpress. Oops!! Thanks to Gretchen at Girls Can’t What? and Thyme for Design [...]
June 17, 2009 by Marci | 4 Comments
I am calling this the “Unbusy summer – part one” because I plan on posting our progress as these summer months go by. Our family has been planning a relaxing summer for months. And by planning, I really mean not planning. My husband and I decided that summer needs to be what we remember as [...]
June 16, 2009 by Marci | 5 Comments
As the school year closed out, I was so looking forward to summer. Not just for the sun and fun, but for the slower pace summer brings. I was getting weary of driving to two schools two different times a day and trying to fit homework into nights filled with various school and church activities. [...]
June 15, 2009 by Marci | 1 Comment
Every once in a while, I take a look at some of my personal and our family habits and routines to kind of take inventory. My goal is to see how we are spending our time and sometimes money and determine if the means really meet the end. Sometimes, I find that there is something [...]
June 12, 2009 by Marci | 3 Comments
This week, I am highlighting my creative friends for Get Your Creative On hosted by The Creative Mama. Yesterday, was a cold, rainy day and my kids were starting to get restless. We had already done chores, gone to the grocery store and were on our 3rd scavenger hunt when I put a little shout [...]
Marci Goodwin is wife to an amazing husband and mother to two phenomenal kids. She is on a journey to get the "busy" out of her life so she can spend time on what's really important.
