Back To Schoolhouse Organizing + Stocking The Freezer + Novel Autumn Products
Last calendar week was Emma's outset total calendar week dorsum at her schoolhouse (which agency three half-days per calendar week at our church's Parents Day Out program). She's inwards a novel classroom - a large daughter classroom which was a large adjustment for In the forenoon I used to choke inwards in addition to chat alongside her teachers piece nosotros played alongside the babies on the flooring in addition to Emma would comprehend me alongside stickers earlier I left. If at that spot was ever a resistance to me leaving, they but got out the bubbles in addition to she was ready to play. I e'er left knowing she was happy to live on playing alongside her friends in addition to her favorite teachers, Miss Jennifer & Miss Keesha.
This twelvemonth she's inwards the "Toddlers to Twos," room - she is loving all of the novel dress-up clothes, play kitchen in addition to the tree menage to climb on... which terrifies me. The outset few days of drop-off were met alongside a footling chip of hesitation (from both of us... ok, by in addition to large me) which, of course, left me 2d guessing myself. Should I but maintain her dwelling menage alongside me? We tin flame learn inwards piece of work - we've been ok for the concluding 6 weeks, right? It is the same internal battle that all moms face.
I retrieve of myself outset in addition to initiative equally a stay-at-home mom and I similar to retrieve that this weblog is but a documented reflection of our life. (Which is what I strive for, past times the way.) However, the reality is that it does accept a skilful 3-4 hours a solar daytime at the figurer and/or behind the photographic tv set camera lens to brand this happen.
And, I honey it. I honey writing. I honey photography. I honey beingness creative on a daily solid soil in addition to brand things alongside my hands. And I honey sharing it. I honey inspiring others to create the same.
I also honey that writing this weblog helps to force me to proceed to live on creative, laid fun dinners in addition to entertain often. I honey that on my "to-do" listing this calendar week is to add together festive Fall touches to our menage in addition to decorate Fall saccharide cookies... in addition to I learn to telephone cry upward it "work." And brand an income doing it. I'm lucky. I'm lucky that this is my "job" in addition to I'm real lucky that I possess got a selection - I realize non every mom does.
Right : Emma on her outset solar daytime of "school" concluding year. Tear : (
Mostly, I honey that when I pick Emma upward from school, nosotros learn to come upward dwelling menage in addition to play, in addition to create fun things that she wants to do... instead of trying to learn her to entertain herself piece I learn my figurer in addition to menage piece of work done.
The summertime had done a doozie on every cabinet in addition to corner of our house. I was starting to experience claustrophobic every fourth dimension I opened the freezer or Emma's fine art supplies cabinet. So I spent a yoke of hours each solar daytime getting things cleaned out in addition to dorsum inwards shape. I literally retrieve I am breathing amend because of it.
(By the way, correct directly my ain Mom is thinking to herself, "Can this live on the same daughter that I couldn't fifty-fifty learn to brand her bed or pick her towel upward off of the floor?!") It mightiness look nuts, but messes, fifty-fifty behind shut cabinet doors tin flame drive me crazy... directly that I'm an adult.
Speaking of crazy. I'm crazy almost lists. To-do lists, grocery lists, shopping lists, etc. Every calendar week I write out a listing of our bill of fare for the week, each solar daytime I brand a to-do list... in addition to I possess got a running "errands" listing for the week. It helps me mentally organize myself.
Left : This was my list from concluding week... fridge, freezer, emma's art, laundry, garage, office. Check, check, check. Check, check, check.
And how almost those Le Pens! They've been my favorite for years. In college I used the navy, but directly I'm a fan of the grey. They are sparse in addition to elegant, alongside a tiny felt tip. You may possess got seen them on Martha Stewart's desk. She's also a huge fan. In fact, she gave her blueprint editor, Kevin Sharky, an entire instance of these greyness pens for his novel office.
This "To-do" Tablet + Le Pens are i of the new additions to the store. (You tin flame encounter all of the most recent additions, here!) I had the tablets custom printed alongside a uncomplicated label-style header on a natural (just slightly creamy) cardstock. That's right. Cardstock. I've never been able to abide by a to-do listing tablet made alongside cardstock, then I created it. I honey the heavier weight newspaper because when I tear it off to accept the listing alongside me, it doesn't learn crumpled in addition to messy. It also plant keen for a concluding infinitesimal card or greenback attached to a gift.
I designed the size to fit perfectly equally a label (similar to my wedding political party welcome bag) for my medium cello bags... I'll show yous to a greater extent than examples inwards the future. The Tablet + Le Pen laid comes alongside iv pens because I honey to possess got my pencil jolt total of all of the same type of pen... sometimes it is the footling things that tin flame brand us experience organized.
The laid comes alongside 1 tablet + iv le pens for $14.
And directly to cheque off the list. I didn't create anything revolutionary alongside our organizing (these photos aren't Martha Stewart level, but existent photos of the black corners of our house). I but wanted to exhibit yous to inspire yous to build clean out your ain work areas... it feels then much better!
Freezer. One of the outset things on my listing was to build clean out our freezer. I couldn't believe how many random leftovers in addition to one-half bags of french fries in addition to peas were filling this to the brim pre-clean out. Now, equally yous see, I've position everything into clear bags. I am e'er making double batches of everything in addition to throwing it inwards the freezer - scones, cakes, cupcakes. We e'er possess got balls of cookie dough ready to choke inwards the oven. And those curt ribs? We made those concluding night... recipe coming tomorrow!
Freezer exceed shelf : Truffle butter, Blue Bell (the best), Nueske's Canadian Bacon (but honey their regular bacon, too), caprine animal cheese, peas...
And hither is a frozen pasta that I made a double batch of concluding week. Recipe coming soon.
Fridge. Ready for re-stocking.
Emmas cabinet inwards our kitchen - it is amazing what a yoke of baskets tin flame to. I bought these from target to stand upward for the baskets inwards our linen closet. I abhor to pass whatsoever coin on things specifically for this kitchen, equally it volition live on going away inwards but a yoke of months, then I made certain they could live on used in i lawsuit again inwards a novel spot.
I de-cluttered the opened upward shelving inwards our kitchen. It had choke a spot for me to stick random things that I didn't possess got a identify for...
This is my shelf inwards a higher identify my desk inwards the kitchen - also tin flame choke a magnet for clutter! No more.
Garage. This is our quondam dining room/kitchen hutch. I know, sad. But, nosotros don't possess got a spot for it inwards our menage correct now, in addition to I was scared of Emma climbing on it. So, it is serving a utilitarian travel inwards the garage for the moment.
Before, it was terribly unorganized, alongside but everything piled onto these shelves. I bought these nine medium bins, in addition to 6 smaller ones in addition to but sorted everything out. Soooo much better.
After school, Emma "helped" me re-stock our freezer render of frozen cookie dough.
Caught alongside her paw inwards the cookie jar!
More finger licks.
And pes licks! We'll salvage those cookies but for Daddy.
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Be certain to hold off at the new products I've added today - but for Fall, including my novel favorite natural linen striped napkins in addition to tea towels. This calendar week I'll characteristic to a greater extent than of the products inwards my post service in addition to cozy recipes for Fall... including Short Ribs, Apple Pie in addition to French Onion Soup. I'll live on adding to a greater extent than products for Halloween in addition to Thanksgiving, too, inwards the adjacent yoke of weeks.
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