My Story

My oldest was three and a half when I did it.

I stood at the trash can ready to throw away everything she had made that week. Drawings. Paintings. Little projects I lacked the capacity to deal with. 

I had done this so many times before it had become second nature. But this time felt different. I thought about how few things I had actually saved.

Something shifted. I just stood there and felt it.

Not because every single thing had been worth keeping, but because I had no way to tell. I had no system, nothing to help me decide what actually mattered. So instead of saving things to sort later, I chose the path of least resistance aka the trash can.

I’ve owned my own business for close to two decades. I know how to build systems. I run entire businesses around them. And I still couldn't figure out how to handle a stack of my own kid's artwork without either drowning in it or throwing it away.

So I started researching. Talking to other moms. Reading about memory, about what kids actually retain, about what parents wish they had done differently. And what I found was that most moms have the same problem. We care so much we freeze. We save everything because we're afraid of getting it wrong. Or we trash it all to preserve some of our already waning sanity.

Saving everything isn't the answer. A simple system is.

I knew I wasn’t the only one who needed a system. So I built one.

That's what Mindful Modern Paper Co. is. Not a scrapbooking brand. Not a craft project. A system for a problem most moms are dealing with and nobody's talking about.

If you're ready to stop throwing things away, start here.