Two more weeks! Two more weeks! Two more weeks and school is over for the year! I LOVE summer! I love having all of my kiddos home all day! Last summer, I was a little scared. It was the first summer of this slob-recovery-thing, and although I couldn't wait to have the kids home, I was petrified that I would lose any momentum I had … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
Menu Plan Monday – And a Picnic Report
Have you been waiting by your computer to see my picnic idea from last week? Technically . . . we did have a picnic. I'm calling it that even though we ended up eating in the car after narrowly escaping a torrential downpour. And I'm calling it that even though on the nifty picnic idea I had planned. We had pizza. As in, $5 pizzas from … [Read more...]
Spaghetti Pie – And a Challenge to Procrastinate on Doing Dishes
Recently, through My Blog Spark, I agreed to take Cascade Complete's 24 Hour Challenge. The challenge was to cook something especially messy, and then not do the dishes for 24 hours. Mmmmm, I can totally do that. I could go 48, or even 72 . . . and never break a sweat. They sent me this pretty white casserole dish in the picture. Ha! A … [Read more...]
Motivated by Falling Objects
Sometimes you weigh various factors when deciding which area to declutter next. Sometimes it just hits you over the head. (Almost) literally. I've been doing a decluttering/organization project most Thursdays. This morning, as I deflected falling cups and medicine bottles, I decided that this kitchen cabinet would be today's project. I … [Read more...]
Big Thing In, Big Thing Out
Waaaaay back, like six months ago, when my Sister in Law put her house on the market, I started dreaming about her couch. Her red one. It would look fantastic in MY living room, and then I could move our current couch into the office/gameroom and the daybed from there into my daughter's room . . . . and so on and so forth. She has now … [Read more...]
Letting People into Our Lives, Not Just Into Our Home
Today is a strange day in my deslobification process. I'm having lots of warm fuzzies over the fact that I have extra laundry to do and am storing a rather large piece of furniture in my garage. I've shared recently that my husband's sister is moving. Moving stinks. The upheaval, the physical exertion, and the emotional … [Read more...]
Picnic Ideas – Pizza Pockets
One more week of baseball has been checked off the calendar.As promised, I'm sharing our picnic suppers from the previous week with my Menu Plan Monday post. Last week, for our five-hours-straight-of-games night, we had pizza pockets, warm out of the oven and wrapped in foil. They were a huge hit! The how to: First, remove from the fridge the … [Read more...]
Calculating Someone Else’s Undie Supply
I have mentioned that opening my big mouth and inviting my Sister-in-Law over "anytime . . . seriously" has motivated me to try to get the house back in order this week. That motivation was good and all, but the real fire was lit when Hubby casually mentioned that his mom had casually mentioned that his sister had casually mentioned that she was … [Read more...]
Sometimes a Good Purge is Just What You Need
Warning: This post is not intended to show an organized closet. While the author is ever-so-much closer to having an organized closet than she was last week, she is fully aware that she has a very long way to go. Please accept this post for its intended purpose which is to demonstrate how much of a difference purging things like two-year-old … [Read more...]