It’s really easy in this world of excess to want it all and to envy those who seemingly have it all or at least who have more than you do.  I’m working hard at accepting where I am and appreciating what I have regardless if it is where I want to be or what I want to have.  It’s hard to do but for me and my husband and our kids it is super important that we start really looking at and talking about what is important and what really matters.

I really started thinking about it this week as the kids began their barrage of wants for Christmas and I looked at the laundry pile (it would shock you–I’m not kidding) and all the clothes left in drawers.  I am an over-consumer.  I might single-handedly be keeping the economy in my little town for tanking completely.  It’s really time to live more simply.  It’s going to be hard.  I admit it.  But Noah is getting to the age where he is beginning to expect a certain life-style and it is time to change it before it is harder to turn back.

We’ll see how it goes.  But I am beginning to accept and appreciate more.  That’s a step.