Letting things go

{This post i did last week - thought I'd lost it as the battery went dead as i was typing}

I am trying very hard to just let things go. I have reduced the amount of things in our house that we just do not use including toys and other gifts that were only being kept for sentimental reasons. I have realised that THINGS don't matter.

One thing is my clean obsession which just needs a little more balance.  It is just not that important and I need to let it go. I love being organised and the above picture is worth so much more then a clean and tidy house. Around that table we spent some good quality time on a Sunday morning as a family making memories. There was crying and frustration but there was a family. We completed yet another Christmas tradition of making clay Christmas ornaments. It was fun and the boys loved it ~ including daddy who made an aeroplane for his, second year in a row {from a man with no creative bone!}

The memory making and love shared around that table is worth all the mess in the world - all the other stuff had to be let go!

In the evening we unwrapped our first Christmas book another tradition that's been going for a few a years now, and laughed and played around the tree - it sounds cheesy but that's what we did - disney could have been filiming in the bacground I'm sure.  The feeling in our home was love, happiness and the Spirit. Not everyday has these moments and I am grateful for the days that do. This is a feeling I want our boys to have in their hearts as they remember their childhood throughout their lives.

The other stuff {spotless house, spotless kids, spotless me!} will just need to be kicked to the kerb.