![]() ![]() For example, one day, I worked on the kids’ closets and was amazed that I accomplished everything in 15 minutes. Some days if I had time, I would do two 15-minute sessions. ![]() The one simple step that I have found that makes a minimal lifestyle with kids possible is setting a 15-minute timer each day with one project. So we are taking it slow and steady and loving the changes! Make the Move to Minimalism with One Simple Step I knew that I would still be stressed and overwhelmed if I put an unrealistic deadline on this. I made sure when I started this journey that I would allow myself time to make it happen. Our family is moving in a few months, which is the perfect push we need to finish this process. Here we are six months later, and we still have a ways to go before I think we will be complete. It’s not going to happen in a couple of days.” They just know us so well, don’t they? But when I told my husband my plan, he responded, “That sounds great! You need to realize, though, that this will be a process. Of course, I wanted to snap my fingers and have our home look like these Instagram homes I have been so fond of lately. I began purging and donating, and I devised a plan to make our life simpler. One that seemed less chaotic and more peaceful while having a home filled with small children. Seeing these women on social media made me so motivated to live a minimalist lifestyle. I was looking at her Instagram posts and thinking, “There is no way she lives like this with children!” Deciding to Become a Minimalist Mom I was so intrigued by this that I watched her videos daily. Her family was living a minimalist lifestyle. She was sharing everyday life with a twist. ![]() Not long after this, I stumbled across a mom of four on YouTube. “They are only this age once,” I would say to myself daily. Being tired, constantly picking up around the house, and never getting a break. “How in the world did I let our home become this way?” I thought.įor years I have told myself that this type of chaos was normal. Not at my children or my husband but at myself and the mess. My husband was trying to take a phone call for work, the kids were running amok, and toys were strewn from one end of the house to the next. And I was shocked at the amount of chaos that was occurring in my home. That afternoon, my husband had been home with the kids (ages 7, 4, and 1). But then, six months ago, I came home from the grocery store one evening, and everything changed. The minimalist lifestyle wasn’t even a thought in my head. A minimalist mom is not something I would have ever thought I would become when I started my motherhood journey. ![]()
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