May 14, 2024

Why it’s Not Okay to Have a Bare Minimum Attitude

Now before I tell my story, I want you to know that this was a lesson to me because I have been guilty of doing the bare minimum at work and in housekeeping lately. Sometimes I feel guilty about it. Just checking the boxes is how I get by, and sometimes that’s how it has to be. It all started as I was flying home yesterday afternoon, as a result of some bad weather flight delays. My flight from Florida to North Carolina was forty minutes late. Just as my first flight was pulling into the gate, my Charlotte to […]
April 23, 2024

Grateful for All of Our Spring Chaos

The past few weeks have been spring chaos around our house. Don’t worry. There were no fires or life threatening emergencies. Alan was out of town for two weeks. He traveled all over the place and had his own cool adventures, to include meeting a group of Rosie Riveters from World War II and ringing the gong at the European stock exchange, Euronext. But this chaos isn’t about him. It’s about me over here, eighteen years into parenting, still struggling like a fly in a spiderweb. Last week, I was wriggling all over the place. Things kept happening the past […]
April 3, 2024

Easy Brilliant Way to Organize Your T-Shirt Drawer

If you have a messy drawer full of t-shirts, you have come to the right place. We are going to organize your t-shirt drawer in beautiful, tidy rows today. The way I do this keeps all your shirts visible, unwrinkled, and rotated. This way you do not always wear the same three t-shirts over and over again. Well, actually the unwrinkled part depends on how neatly you fold your clothes. Sometimes I get in a hurry and don’t do the best job. But if you slow down and do your fold/roll neatly, they should be nice and unwrinkled. We moved […]
March 18, 2024

10 Encouraging Bible Verses for When You Need a Pick-Me-Up

Do you ever feel knocked down and in need of encouragement? Maybe you need a few encouraging Bible verses to get you through the day? You open your Bible hoping to find just the right motivating words to help you go on, but you aren’t sure where to look exactly. I have a few I’ve collected over the years I’d like to share with you today. When my husband Alan went to Iraq the second time, I was left with a two-year-old and a one-year-old boy to bring up on my own for fifteen months. And by the way, I’m […]
March 8, 2024

How to Organize Your Small Desk to Work Perfectly & Look Beautiful

If your desk sometimes looks like complete chaos (as mine did), and you want some ideas for how to organize your small desk, you have come to the right place. That is our mission today, to turn our desk into a happy place we can be proud of! The goal here is to make your desk organized and inviting. I set out to do this with my own desk, and I want to share my process with you. Let’s break it down into small steps and take it one step at a time. This could take you an hour, or […]
January 24, 2024

What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Doing Anything

Do you ever have days where you have no energy and you do not felling like doing anything in the world? I am not too proud to admit that I have seen many no-energy days where it feels almost impossible to do anything. Let me tell you, I had two hard-core, no energy at all days, last week. January was getting to me or something! All I wanted to do was wallow on my sofa, but then I felt guilty about not getting my stuff done. Sometimes I do not even know why I have no energy. Maybe it’s hormones, […]
January 17, 2024

Time for a 2024 Planning Session!

For my 2024 planning session, I sat down with my calendar, a pen, and the kids’ school calendars and roughly planned out the entire year. Have you ever tried that? It sounds simple, but I tell you. I am not sure I have ever done this before. There is something about the possibility of moving that makes you suddenly go into planning overdrive. I have had this 2024 planning session sitting in my calendar for a couple of weeks now, and I keep pushing it off. Sure, it is definitely time to plan out 2024, but when it comes to […]
January 12, 2024

10 Tips for How to Handle Waiting for Military Orders without Losing Your Mind

Here we are again. It is another potential moving year, and we are waiting for military orders. These are my least favorite kind of years as a military spouse. No matter how many times we do this, I still view it with a healthy dose of fear and trepidation. I have my reasons. We have lived all over the country. There have been orders that took forever to arrive, orders that changed at the last minute, and just plain old orders that I did not personally like. It’s always somethin’. When we were young and more carefree, this felt so […]
January 5, 2024

Top Ten Most Popular Getting My Act Together Posts of 2023

Looking over a complete year is always one of my favorite things to do in January. Do you do that? If you have a calendar or a journal where you write down notes about how you spent your time and record what happened, it is so fun to take a peek back at the year you finished. It can be surprising to see just how much happens in a whole year. So let’s take a look back at 2023 on this website, Getting My Act Together, and see what the most popular articles were. I am not including anything I […]
December 19, 2023

Day 30 of the Decluttering Challenge: Medicines

Welcome to the very last day of the Thirty Day Decluttering Challenge! We made it to the end! And for the very last day, we are decluttering our medicine stash. This is ending just in time for us to all celebrate Christmas. I would say “relax and celebrate Christmas,” but who gets to do that until the whole thing is officially over? Christmas is joyous and beautiful and also completely exhausting and overwhelming. At least, that is how I feel about it. Maybe we are doing it wrong! It does feel like a special gift to myself that I have […]

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