In light of our upcoming classes for the Diaconate, we’re stepping up the organization process at our home. Classes start right after labor Day, which is a mere 6 weeks away. We’re clearing out the unneccessary, storing the sentimental, repairing the essential. We’re ordering more bookcases, installing shelves, buying baskets. We’re getting our notebooks gussied up, sewing new bags, and sharpening pencils.

I’m organizing menus, putting the final touches on our chore system, and tuning my agenda.

We’re planning gardens, preparing for our goats, and making the chickens comfortable. We’re rehabbing a 1/2 acre field at the family farm for planting next spring and looking for a homestead of our own.

We’re shopping for a new GadBus that has air conditioning, a diesel engine, and a step for short-statured members of our family.

I’m praying for someone to take over publisher/editorial duties for me at PHM, Brian is gathering engineers for his new contracts, and I’ve begun outlining my long-awaited etiquette book for children and teens. I’m hoping to find more time this fall to get some serious work done on both Titch and Brigid books and make some headway on four other Saints series. My podcast will take greater precedence, and we’re hoping to add some better features to it.

How will we do it? Delegation and simplification.

…at least in theory.

Posted: 07|23|07 at 8:37 am. Filed under: from our hearth and home.
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