Your home needs this
Good morning.
If your home is still looking like summer vacation happened inside it, you’re not alone.
But routines are returning, and this is the perfect week to clear a little space. For backpacks, schedules, calmer mornings, and maybe even your sanity.
Let’s reset together, one small step at a time.
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The rules to this game are simple. You start with ten fingers up in the air.
-If you can answer yes to a question, then you have to put a finger down.
-If your answer is no to a question, then you leave your fingers up.
The first one to put all 10 fingers down wins, is out, or starts over (depending on how you want to play). 700 readers have already played this week!
TABLE WISDOM
“Your home should be the antidote to stress, not the cause of it.”
— Peter Walsh
These Growth Mindset Quotes Are Exactly What You Need to Hear Right Now
Every challenge is a doorway… the question is, will you walk through it? These quotes are for the moments this week when resetting feels harder than it should.
Someone always tries to make their lie sound more believable than their truths. That’s when it gets interesting.
Here’s the free Two Truths and a Lie game →
HAPPY THANKFUL THURSDAY!
This week, I’m grateful for…
1. Good friends. Friends that feel like family can’t be beat.
2. Flowers. I’ve been slowly adding more plants to our home, and it brings me so much joy.
3. My husband’s cooking. He got an outdoor griddle for Father’s Day this year, and has been wowing us with his new dishes. (The best part is that I’m not the one cooking! 🤣)
Three things that make a home feel like home again. What’s yours this week?
CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK
Declutter for the school year.
This week, don’t aim for a picture-perfect house. Aim for a house that works better for your family.
Follow the 7 Day Declutter Challenge (today is day 4), or check out the August Organization Calendar.
AFFIRMATION OF THE WEEK
Creating space creates calm.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Hubby’s cooking, flowers, good friends — these are the things worth keeping.
What could you let go of this week to make room for more of what you’re thankful for?
MORE FROM THE TABLE
Kids allergic to doing chores?
Family a little messed up after a summer of no routine?
Tired of telling them to do something 5 times before they do it?
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SOMETHING TO CHEW ON
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk, or leaves.
(See the answer to this What Am I Riddle at the bottom of this email)
TABLE TALK
Husband: exhausted and 15 seconds from falling asleep
Wife: Would you stay with me if we woke up tomorrow and my arms and legs were gone?
Riddle answer: A bank
One small step. That’s how a reset begins.
Thank you for sitting with us. I hope you enjoyed today’s edition. If you have anything at all you’d like to share, ask, or say, just hit reply. I’d love to hear from you.
I appreciate you!
See you tomorrow at the table,
Jenn Kropf
Founder of Healthy Happy Impactful