by Leslie Sholly | Aug 5, 2018 | family, home decor, Parenting, teenagers
Just popping in to update anyone who has been following my minimalism posts . . . I have NOT stopped, but I have slowed down. When last I posted, we were moving into Kids’ Rooms Week. We recently minimized Lorelei’s bedroom in a BIG way–because Jake...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 10, 2018 | family, home decor
Week two of the Catholic Minimalism challenge is bathrooms. We have four of them! Last time around, I thoroughly minimized the two upstairs. In the time since, the one on the main floor was repurposed when Emily moved all her things to the basement bathroom, which...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 8, 2018 | Deep Thoughts, family, FIRE, Gratitude, home decor, Parenting
Back in my high school days, the Drama Club was one of my favorite extra-curricular activities. I participated in every production that occurred while I was a student. My all-time favorite role was Penelope (Penny) Sycamore, the mother in You Can’t Take It with...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 30, 2018 | Catholicism, family, home decor, homeschooling
Remember back at the beginning of the year when I was participating in the Catholic Minimalism Challenge, and making all kinds of progress, and posting impressive updates? Well, along about week three, we got the flu. For the second time. As you might expect, that...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 16, 2018 | family, home decor, Knoxville, Parenting, photoblogging, teenagers, Vacations, Walking in Knoxville
I’ll be honest–it’s getting harder to come up with something to do every day, and now I am laboring under Lorelei and William’s expectations as well. It’s not that I don’t have plenty of ideas–I have a page-long list, in...
by Leslie Sholly | Feb 4, 2018 | Catholicism, home decor
This week was Kitchen Week, but my kitchen is far from finished for a couple of reasons. One, I never planned to do the whole thing this week because there weren’t enough days/categories for me to go through everything (I have a lot of dish ware I want to go...