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Email a FriendPosted by RealMom4Life on Thursday, Oct 14, 2010 8:20 AM (EDT):
Great list! I love #3. That might just be what we need to do here with our big brood. Thanks for the successes (aka tip!)
You Did It! Now Tell Us About It
Small Successes vol. 87
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Thursday, October 14, 2010 7:54 AM
It’s important for moms to recognize that all the small successes in our days can add up to one big triumph. So on Thursday of each week, we do exactly that.
To participate, just write up a list of 3 of your recent Small Successes and post it on your blog along with the Small Successes button (go here to get the code). You are not required to use the button, but please do link back to the main post here. Then you can add your blog here using the Mr. Linky form (please link to the individual blog post, not the home page of your blog).
If you don’t have a blog, you can share your Small Successes in the comments.
To get us started, here are my small successes for this week:
1. Cleaned out the pantry. And the giant freezer that’s in there too. Turkey frozen for over 2 years? I don’t think anyone’s going to miss it.
2. The white noise sound machine that my husband and I have been shamelessly addicted to for sleeping finally broke. It was a pricey machine and I dreaded replacing it. But then I found a $1.99 white noise app for my phone that has tons of different options and we like it even better than our original machine. Score!
3. I have been taking advantage of my dishwasher’s “quick wash cycle” to run through breakfast and lunch dishes each afternoon, and it is awesome. This has been keeping me on top of the evening dishes, because I can (finally!) fit all the dinner dishes into the washer for a regular cycle at night. Yes, I’m running the dishwasher twice in the day, but there are 10 people in this house all day, every day. And this is the “quick wash” that uses less water and energy. And this machine happens to be one of the “greenest” ones on the market. So, no guilt! Just euphoria!
Now it’s your turn! Please share all the small but significant ways you’ve done the right thing this week.
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GREAT week! Score for a clean pantry AND freezer. I like the short wash option on my dishwasher as well. We only have 4 in our household, so I typically only run the dw every other day, but if I now I’m going to have lots of dishes coming up I’ll run through a small load on short and it eases my kitchen stress immensely. ;-D
Posted by Ana Braga-Henebry on Thursday, Oct 14, 2010 10:43 AM (EDT):
Love this idea. Recognizing successes, positive things, goodness and small miracles is the only way to live! I also enjoyed visiting the blogs above!
Posted by Susan on Thursday, Oct 14, 2010 12:18 PM (EDT):
1. Made it to 2nd exercise class this week. Man it was a killer, but I did it!
2. cleaned out all the kids closets (plus my own) & donated 2 huge bags of clothes to charity.
3. Ironed on all my daughter’s Brownie patches from last year - ready for first meeting!
Posted by Florida Wife on Thursday, Oct 14, 2010 12:20 PM (EDT):
I love this idea!! It’s a great way to journal those little things that meant a lot to me this week. Things that will be forgotten years from now because they may have seemed mundane, but they are things that meant a lot to me during the week.
Posted by Lisa Schmidt on Thursday, Oct 14, 2010 2:28 PM (EDT):
I’m in at #23! Great idea; one that will help me add fresh, simple, regular, and hopeful fruitful material on my blog as well.
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