Vlog: Thanksgiving and Christmas Memories

Hi!  I expected to get this posted yesterday but ran into technical difficulties.  I apologize for the delay.  In this video, I share some Thanksgiving memories and traditions and encourage you to share yours as well.  For example, do you go out to eat on Thanksgiving or have a big dinner at home with friends and family?  When do you start decorating for Christmas?  Do you prefer to say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or Season's Greetings?  And, so on.  I also talk about the other holidays besides Christmas that are celebrated in December.  I hope you'll share some of your holiday traditions and memories.  I'd love to hear from you.  Post them in the comments below, or email them to me at amy@acnlifecoach.com  Thanks!  Take care.

Vlog: Lived In or Cluttered?

Is your home lived in or cluttered?  Or, is it really neat and tidy?  I consider our home lived in while Jim tends to think it's cluttered.  I've been to cluttered homes.  Ours isn't cluttered.  Cluttered homes have stuff EVERYWHERE.  There's no place to sit, hardly a place to stand.  Books, magazines, old pizza boxes, and broken toys everywhere.  That's not our house.  Lived in means, maybe you leave a glass out on the counter.  It'll get picked up when you wash the dishes in the evening.  Or you leave a project out that you're in the middle of working on.  Or you leave a book lying on the sofa that you'll return to tomorrow.  We have six cats and a parrot.  There is no way that our house is going to be pristine.  It's lived in.  I grew up in a lived in house and I liked it that way.  So, I'm carrying on the tradition.  You can wear your shoes in our house (well, unless they are muddy, but that just makes common sense to remove muddy shoes.), you can eat and drink in any room in the house.  We are flexible and relaxed about that.  I understand that other people have their own opinions and ways of doing things and that is fine; this is just the way we do it. 

What is your take on this topic?  Is your home "lived in," "cluttered," or "neat and tidy?"