The William Morris Project keeps me plugging away at odd jobs and monumental tasks. This week I didn’t accomplish a single big job, but I did plow through a bunch of little things. I have been taking part in this project for over a year and it has helped me change my habit of sticking annoying little jobs aside until I have time. Now, I am more likely to make the time.
Here is a sampling of the kinds of things I have gotten done this week:
Tired of moving stacks of CDs around the computer desk, I filled a bag with computer software that we can no longer use since changing from a PC to Mac. These things will be donated to our library. The Friends of the Library will sell them at their book sale fundraiser.
I took a bag of decent clothes we no longer needed to the Boys and Girls Club donation drop-off. I was sure to itemize them and to get a receipt. Having worked on our tax return this week, I had just been reminded how easy tax software makes itemizing donations like this so they can be appropriately deducted from our taxes.
When I saw my sister last weekend, I passed on a bunch of magazines I had finished. She reads them and then takes them to a relative who lives at the nursing home in their small town. The relative shares them with the other residents. Talk about getting my money’s worth!
A bunch of children’s blocks had been sitting on the floor of my laundry room waiting for me to decide what to do with them. Just for fun I decided to glue them together today to make a funky wall hanging. It still needs to be clamped while the glue dries, but I am done kicking blocks across the floor. And it will add a little whimsy to a corner of our family room.
It seems like there wasn’t much forward progress in the past seven days. Some weeks are like that. The important thing is to keep moving. That alone is progress.
Cute wooden blocks! I would have been so bogged down with the possibilities in using/creating with them. It is so frustrating to go through seasons where only baby steps are made. I mean, how hard can it be to finish a project?! And yet life is still that way sometimes. Hurray for any progress. I bet the final results will be great.:)
Oh, I love those blocks. Looking forward to seeing the finished project! And I think lots of small steps can add up to a pretty big something (a nicely organized, functional home, for starters). I’m finding that small projects over time is the only way we can really manage to make change happen.
What a great idea with the blocks and I love all the lives those magazines are living. The old adage still holds true, inch by inch it’s a cinch, by the yard it’s hard. You’re inching your way to success.
Your words are so timely, May. I just typed those very words in response to a blog post elsewhere. It is always something…and I’m really kinda tired of the constant stream. Maybe I just need a little of the stuff in your next entry…peaceful sleep.
Amen Sister. Good for you.
Yes!! I love it. Thank you, this is awesome. Lombardi has a favorite quote of mine, similar to Barbara’s: Inches make champions.
Hey – one drawer, one corner at a time!! I’m hoping for a bit of motivation to kick in today…have a couple of projects in mind!