"The box I live in is comfortable" or "Someone get me a Saw!"

I am realizing more and more I live in a box. The same routine over and over. Familiar schedule, familiar stores, familiar places, familiar meals. I am rigid in doing it like I think it should be done. Every time I do it my way I am driving another nail in my box, making it stronger. Thinking outside the box is not so easy for me. Let me give an example.

I am CONSTANTLY after my children to get play clothes on, to stay out of the good clothes in their closets, OR I am picking up clean clothes mingled with dirty clothes off their closet and bedroom floors. And telling them AGAIN this isn't acceptable. I find this to be a HIGHLY annoying conversation, mainly because I have it nearly EVERY DAY. But I captured an idea in the midst of a conversation the other day. My cousin said she put all the play clothes in the mud room bin. Hmmmmm mud room bin.....play clothes.....easy access for the kids, big bin...means no folding/hanging for mom. So I thought and thought on this. I have no mud room.....only the grooming room...that won't work...Maggie usually comes down stairs to dress... The solution....ONE BIG BIN IN THE DINING ROOM TUCKED TO THE SIDE. Easy to just pick up and hide when company comes yet accessible to the kids.

I do this with food as well. In the course of the last few days my GREAT friend Maggie has found delicious meals hidden in my measly left overs or random fruits and veggies in the fridge. I have been amazed at her resourcefulness.

I have become wasteful and undisciplined in my living. I say "NO LONGER!"

...I have determined that my mind likes its comfortable"box". But starting today I am going to train my brain to think OUTSIDE THE BOX.... I am going to become more RESOURCEFUL. I love that word. I want to be that word.

Someone get me a saw!