My Simpler Life – Simple Living

A reader asked for tips to simplify a wedding so they can plan quicker to have the wedding before family has to go back overseas. Since my simple wedding will be 21 years ago June 1, I asked at facebook for some new ideas. Rhiannon reminds us to prioritize the stuff that lasts like rings [...]

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Welcome to this week’s issue of Weekly Simplicity Tips. The Trillium have come to West Michigan (the three petal white flower). My daughter and I took a walk in the woods to see them. Photos by Brea Dargis Mother’s Day was our end of the year choir concert. A great night of worship. One last [...]

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How you think about yourself as a housekeeper can affect how you care for your home. If "other people" have the pretty, organized homes you are less likely to have that kind of home. If you think you are disorganized, lazy, scattered you are more likely to act that way. In my classes, we talk [...]

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Life can be so daily, can’t it? Dishes again. Chauffeuring again. Making the bed again. We tend to hurry through all the routine stuff to get to the more interesting. The projects. The events. Anything that isn’t part of a checklist. If we look at our life most of it is spent in the routine [...]

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May is the time of year I look to take a close look at my spending. We usually want to take a summer trip, go camping at least once, see plays at Hope Summer Rep Theater, and there are always weddings, graduations, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. This year I also plan on going on [...]

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A retreat I went on Sunday talked about Cultivating Joy – intentionally noticing and creating joy. Our sermon last Sunday talked about living intentionally. My daughter was telling me she appreciated the childhood we had for her with lots of family time. I got to tell her we did that intentionally. It’s easy to get [...]

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Welcome to this week’s issue of Weekly Simplicity Tips. Welcome to this week’s issue of Weekly Simplicity Tips. I had a very renewing weekend. I put up my out of the office autoresponder 11am Friday when my daughter, mother-in-law and a couple of her friends went to see another friend in Pirates of Penzance. A [...]

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You don’t just start using the phone every waking minute. Technology creeps in. You start by having it in your purse. Then your desk. Next you get it out while waiting in the car or the doctor’s office. Soon it’s in the house during commercials. Or a quick text when you are out and about. [...]

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Welcome to this week’s issue of Weekly Simplicity Tips. This week was a hard week for many people everywhere. We spent part of this weekend looking at places we often hike to see how flooding has damaged so many areas. May you feel peace this coming week. Monday morning we were enjoying the beauty of [...]

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