My Bed Looks Great, and Musings on my Progress

It's Hump Day, and I'm three for three in making the bed this week. Even this morning, when the wee one yelled "Moooooooooooommy" every other word, and seemed incapable of understanding that time is finite, I made the bed presentable.  I have grand plans to actually finish decorating the space by the end of the weekend so that I can reveal to you a beautiful haven of rest, but we'll see about that. 

As for the rest of the challenges... my success thus far has been "meh" at best. Instead of reframing the news, I'm still just ignoring it. I haven't yet tackled any "thank you" notes (although I'm certainly using thank you notes every day... as a mouse pad.)

I've been doing pretty good on the wasting food front. I cleaned out the fridge a bit and felt really bad about dumping out almost an entire carton of expired almond milk (that smoothie sounded like such a good idea... grrr.) But, on the other hand, I have been bringing leftovers to work every day. I'll post about that soon.

I haven't started to acknowledge the meaningful times yet. At least not in the way that I intended when I came up with this week's challenge list.  Alas.

 And last but not least, I have been trying to  boost the power of local nonprofits in their social media nooks and crannies. I'm on Facebook anyway - it's really not hard to click "Like" and "Share." (And by the way, if you live in Harrisonburg and are looking for an amazing nonprofit opportunity, Second Home is hiring a new Executive Director!)

So, given my stumbles so far, is this week's challenge a good boom or a bad bust? It's GOOD, of course! Why? Because I'm making an effort to move in a good direction. And efforts to propel oneself toward something better than the status quo are always worth doing. 

Tonight I'm going to write some thank you notes. To get in the mood, I did a some Pinterest wandering about what comprises a great note. When it comes down to it, the anatomy of a thank you note is pretty simple. I made a pinnable graphic to help us all keep the basics in mind. Tune in tomorrow for a gratitude update!