WEEKEND IS ALMOST HERE!

 

 

 

 

Ive been waiting for you!!! My weekend is almost here - & a great weekend is about to begin.  School started back up for me and my days are filled to the brim with to do's. TGIF! Ill be starting off with a Passion Pit concert and ending my weekend in New Jersey for a friend's baby shower. I cant wait to be surrounded by music, friends and good times!

 

If you haven't been around all week, here is what you missed on the blog....

 

 

New words to add to your vocabulary

 

Take 15 mins to create a better space

 

A sweet read....

 

I hope you enjoy your weekend and savor the small things in life. Head out to your local farmers market, take a bike ride, enjoy a fresh croissant and coffee at a cafe and start a good read for September. But most of all, enjoy.

 

 

Until Monday....

 

xo 

Meems

 

 

Savor....and enjoy!

Nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown—you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit."

{via cup of jo}

— British writer Caitlin Moran in her hilarious, wonderful letter to her daughter

{via The inspired room}

Sometimes the house is a mess. It’s a common phenomenon. I happens to everyone at one time or another probably every day or every week or every month. Our homes get messy.

Sometimes they get messy because you have too much stuff and you don’t know where to put it. Sometimes a house gets messy because you just don’t feel like putting things away. Sometimes rooms get messy because someone wanted to eat again (seriously, why does it seem like people want to eat EVERY DAY? Sigh). Or things are a little unruly in every corner because you have kids or dogs or a family. But I think we can all agree that for whatever reason, messes happen.

I don’t make housekeeping more complicated because I don’t want to spend all day cleaning or preparing to clean or trying to keep up with my expectations. We just know what the necessary daily routines are and do our best to stick with them. Those daily habits mean our house stays “clean enough.” Not perfect, mind you. But good enough.

One of my favorite routines of all time is what we call a cleaning frenzy! I come home from work and clean like a madwoman.

Whenever our house starts to get a little crazy (and let’s just be honest it might be that way at some point every day) we stop what we are doing, pump up the tunes and start putting things away. It’s quite simple to get started, but it can be very contagious. You see one person around the house in a cleaning frenzy and you just can’t help yourself.

Pretty soon you too are washing dishes, grabbing stuff off the counter or coffee table and putting it away. And before you know it, the house is cleaner than it was 15 minutes earlier. You can step back and smile at how much tidier the room looks. You are amazed that it really wasn’t that difficult at all to clean it up and make it “better than it was!” You just had to get started!

So if you are sitting there right now looking at a mess (eh hem) maybe you should try a cleaning frenzy. In fact, let’s try a group project, shall we? I bet we all have a mess somewhere in our house. I know I do.

xo

M

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