I'm a mom too!

 It all started with hubby threatening to go buy new socks today.  That is usually our solution to the sock mess.  Once a year though I tackle this, usually on New Year's Day, but I've been busy.  "NO, DO NOT BUY NEW SOCKS!  I'LL SORT THEM I PROMISE!" What?!  You only sort socks once a year? Basically yes. So how do you find socks?  We dig through the clean ones until we find matches.  Does the pile get huge?  Why, yes it does.  How huge? Well I'll show you. 1 helper 2 helpers Not sure how helpful this is (random underwear was found and thrown and landed on the ceiling fan) Hanging in there an hour later (no joke!) An hour's progress  A lot of fun was had through hide n seek Sock monsters And threats of being "fired" YOU ARE FIRED! Awwww, some itty bitty socks headed to Goodwill... Lone sockville Now who is going to put all these away?? The rest get to hang out until these matche

 So I am hoping that 2012 will be the year I get or almost get my new kitchen.  We decided in the fall that instead of moving our family of four we were going to try to make our 1600 square foot house work for us.  The house we both LOVED when we went looking was older, had an iffy foundation, a tiny hard to get into basement but it was very finished and very homey with a lot of character.  Our house has character!  Our house is homey!  Our house is also solid with steel beams and has a finished basement good for spending hours in during tornado season.  (Once a tornado warning lasted 1.5 hrs.)  Sooooo we decided to stay in our house and do the finishing it needed. Our plan: 1. Repaint and update the living room (easy) 2. Put in an egrass window and walk in closet in the basement bedroom for mom and dad (which is huge BTW).  (medium) 3.  Gut and redo the orginal kitchen (1941-difficult) I'm not sure when 2 or 3 will be finished but 1 is done. The only thing missing is a fla

Mrs. Zrihen  at  A Teacher's Treasure  is making us check in!!  Good for you, Mrs. Zrihen!  Mine are simple, 1.  Lose weight 2.  Declutter    3.  Start selling on TPT So how am I doing?   I HAVE LOST 7 POUNDS IN  2 WEEKS!!  This is  how. I HAVE TAKEN 9 BAGS TO THE THRIFT SHOP!!   My selling on TPT isn't going to start until this summer due to my crazy schedule so I guess you can say I'm going great!!

Ever feel like this?? Here is my very simple organize your life guide for busy work outside the home moms: Man, what did we do before Pinterest?  After weeks of scouring Pinterest for ways to declutter and get organized, I think I finally figured out a system combining the best ideas from Pinterest and the blog world.  I was getting reeled in by many blogger, busy mamas who wanted to challenge me to a clean and organize my home in 14 days and the like.  I certainly was intrigued but when it comes down to it, I need a system that takes an hour or less per day. Looking to get your life in order?  Try these steps.  Once you feel comfortable with a step, move on.  Stay on a step as long as you need to in order to make that step a habit. 1.   Prioritizing.   The first thing you need to do is put yourself first.  Make sure that you have scheduled me time and that you have an opportunity to decompress each day.  My me time comes about 9:30 and can last anywhere from 15 min. to 2

The Journal--Week One My decluttering posts will be mostly for me. Because I want to post often they may be pictureless and somewhat boring. I want to journal what I accomplish in 2012 and right now I am idealistic and hopeful that next year this time I will look back at this post and remember where I started.  Right now the task is daunting. This week I managed to get rid of a ton of plastic hangers, some of hubby's button down shirts along with 7 bags of stuff that I've been collecting for awhile.  We cleaned out closets and the toy room so far. I took the bags to the Thrift shop on Thursday and I am hoping to make this a Thursday tradition.  Thrifty Thursdays I will call it.  :)