Blogging Momma Steele

 Fare Thee Well, COVID19, and Thank You!      It's been a difficult year with COVID19. To be honest, at the start of the lockdowns I actually enjoyed being home all the time. There were so many things in this home I wanted to change that I found myself making a honey-do list. Who knew a year and a ton of $$$$$ could take a house from "just okay" to fabulous? New paint, new floors, remodeled bathrooms, wood stairs, stucco repairs, and landscaping yaye!! Fun stuff! Financially, yes, it was a bit yuck. But, something I noticed was each finished update brought a little burst of joy into my life and increased my love for my home. I found myself not just loving my home, but falling in love with my home again.       Another thing I was able to do during COVID19 was stay focused on our family. I watched our son and our granddaughter grow together as siblings. I also experienced additional growth in my relationship with my husband as we spent even more tim...

 Oh, the clutter!  Everyone who knows me well knows that I am a consistent cleaner. If I am honest, this tendency to clean all the time was born through the trauma of being removed from our home (on several different occasions) when I was a child. Those experiences were so traumatic for me that they bled over into my life as an adult, a wife, and a mother. How? In a nutshell, looking bad, it seems I increased the amount of cleaning in my home every time I had a child. AND I had FIVE! No joke, when my children were little, I thoroughly cleaned my entire home before going to sleep EVERY night. What's worse, is that many of those days I also worked a fulltime job. Before you think it-- I knew I was a good mother and my children were well cared for, but in my mind my home being clean was one more reason no one could take my children from me should officials ever show up at my door. All but one of my children are now adults and I still clean my home crazy like. About five years ago...