Six weeks ago I wrote about the kids sharing a room permanently. We moved them in together in order to make Penelope’s room a play room. Finally, we sold the baby furniture, gave my sister-in-law back her rocking chair, and got a bookshelf to store things. Last week I moved all the toys out of the living room into the play room. Now our bookcase looks like this: It was then I realized, our kids have a lot of crap. I mean, seriously, 6 shelves? Really? They also had stuff on top of the two armoires in our bedroom, and [...]
The Good Dishes
I’ve been in an organizing/purging kind of mood lately. One of the biggest things that bothered me in my home was the kitchen cabinet where I have the dishes. I had all the girls’ sippy cups, cups with straws, sparkly cups, and non-breakable plates and bowls (fine, they’re plastic. I’m not always green.) Plus I had the dishes Sean and I used for everyday. We had the remains of two sets that were purchased separately at Target more than ten years ago. There were four salad plates, six dinner plates, and six bowls. I also had our everyday drinking [...]
10 Tips for Getting Organized
I’ve gotten the organization bug this year. It’s time to get this house in order. The crap all over drives me nuts. It messes with my zen and puts my Feng Shui out of kilter. It makes me twitchy. When I’m twitchy, I’m also something that rhymes with twitchy. I’ve had to accept after five years, our house is not suddenly going to sprout another room or two. Five people, fifteen hundred square feet, no basement, no attic. When I look around at all the junk, I imagine our house like a cartoon, bulging and straining at the seams until [...]
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