August 11, 2009 by Marci | 1 Comment
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Creating New Habits as inspired by The Power Of Less by Leo Babauta and Gracefully Creative. The premise of the book is much like Overcoming Busy – get rid of all the clutter in your life so you have time for what is really important. One of the [...]
August 10, 2009 by Marci | 4 Comments
Someone emailed me this story some time ago. I read it from time to time to remind me to keep striving to overcome “busy”. Satan’s Convention Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his assembled demons he said: “We cannot keep the Christians from going to church. We cannot keep them from [...]
August 7, 2009 by Marci | 2 Comments
At the beginning of the week, I have to admit I was not looking forward to what was on the schedule. There were doctor visits, swim lessons and some other stuff I can’t remember right now. Then, each night was vacation bible school. This seemed overwhelming since our summer has been pretty open and unscheduled [...]
August 6, 2009 by Marci | 3 Comments
When I first started Overcoming Busy, I thought that I was so alone in my quest for simplifying life. I would talk about it among friends or at mom’s group and I would hear a lot of “That would be nice, but I just have to much I have to do.” or “I like to [...]
August 5, 2009 by Marci | 3 Comments
I ran across this story out of the UK today and just had to share it. It seems that British Primary Schools are seeing an influx of students who are still wearing diapers and having accidents at school. There is even a charity organization that is giving school nurses courses in potty training older children! [...]
August 4, 2009 by Marci | 1 Comment
After four days out of town with my family, I spent one day doing laundry, going to the doctor and teaching VBS. Today, I’m trying to get back into our routine. Its difficult. Something has changed. When we left, we were still in the “unbusy summer” mode. Now, we realize that summer is coming to [...]
