I’m on a mission to simplify.  Having a baby definitely complicated life, but babies just do that.  It's life.  But the rest of life around the baby can be simpler than it is.  While we can’t control the world outside our homes, we have control of what’s in our homes, and if that space is a mess, then life feels a mess.  We live in a materialistic society (and Los Angeles is a particularly materialistic city), and I confess that my household has too much material stuff (if we had a bigger house, I may not say the same thing about my current volume, so it’s a good thing at this point we have a small space.)