You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast.

A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom.

I'm your host, Diana Renee.

And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back. I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system,

and I'm here to share all the tips, tricks, and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show.

Welcome to another episode of the decluttered mom Mom podcast. Today I wanted to talk about breaking down

achievable goals when it comes to reading. So I think that's something that happens when we become

moms or even just adults. Like as we as we start to have like actual a lot of responsibility on our plates and we we start to not do things that are super we start to put things that are enjoyable to us normally on the back burner. Right. And typically it's because of time or energy at the end of the day. We're just tired or we just don't have time

because we have so much else going on. And I totally get that. But something that really bothered me

as, especially as I became a mom, is that I just found myself reading a lot less. And I've

always been a really, really, really big reader. Like when I was a kid, I would, as soon as I could read chapter books, I would read like a chapter book a day.

My family for some summers, we would go to, we had this like little RV and we would go to this RV camp in northern Michigan, and we would just stay there for

weeks at a time.

And it was some of the best memories I have as a kid because it was just so much fun.

We were not living lavishly by any means, but we had friends that would like, would come up every summer. And so we had,

like, our school friends during the year. And then these friends at the RV place. And it was just like,

we, we just felt like we were on vacation all summer because we would do bonfires, like,

almost nightly. And we would go swimming in the lake and we would like we were riding bikes

all over and so the rule was just we had to like stay in the camp area and we had to be home

like when the little street light things came on and so it was just it was wonderful wonderful time

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