Hi! This is Tracy and I’m dropping in for a little while, because blogging here has been a great way for me to focus on a goal.
In 2015 I was the fourth person to take over The Simple Year blog.I’d left a long teaching career a few years before, but still had an educator’s brain, so I used an educator’s approach to try and streamline my life and my home. I classified the chaos and got started.
Over the next year, I documented my successes, my failures, and took photos of the many boxes and bags I donated. When I handed the blog over to Trisha and her zero waste project, I’d made some notable changes, and I learned a lot. Identifying and giving away things we didn’t need probably got most of my energy relative to my other goals, because it felt like the most pressing need. Even though the excess came out of the house, I was the one feeling lighter.
Since then, I’ve continued to periodically sort through closets and drawers and the garage, which remains a shitshow. There’s no other word for it. So that’ll be a focus. Again. And I’m back to struggling with family meals. What’s that expression about the more things change, the more they stay the same? Maybe familiar issues are preferable to new ones, though I have some of those too!
My plan is to write on Monday and Friday, and if I come across any useful or interesting reading, I’ll share links on Wednesday. It’s great to be back.
Hi Tracy. Welcome back! I remember your grades A, B…. ! Would love to hear about your projects.
Hi Pat! Thank you! Good to see you again!
Welcome back Tracy 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
It’s so good to see the blog back in use. I loved your year Tracey, and looking forward to hearing your updates. They might inspire me to get off my butt too!
Thank you for the compliment! And I hope my posts are helpful.
Welcome back!
Thank you!
I’m so glad the blog is getting updated! I enjoyed your project and am looking forward to updates.
Thank you Trisha!
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Welcome back, Tracy! Looking forward to your updates. We are also trying to come out of our “food rut” (we are just fatigued doing meal planning on top of everything else).
Thank you! Good luck! Meal planning has definitely been a challenge for us too.
Welcome back Tracy! I’m looking forward to hearing your updates