Toy Organization

We’re trying something new with the toys around here. I had noticed that the toys my kids actually played with were much smaller in number than the number that were constantly laying all over the house. Tiny Barbie shoes, toys that were too “young” for them, play dishes…it was everywhere. I was tired of it. [...]

Read Full Post »

Update on the piles

So, based on how many pieces of paper enter this house every day, it’s going to take a little more than filing 5 papers a day. Otherwise I may be working on this for three years before my kitchen piles are gone. Maybe I’ll do 10.

Read Full Post »

Piles

I had a revelation today. First, a little background. For all three years of our married life, we have had piles of papers in the kitchen. Bills, mail, magazines, you-name-it. It gets piled on the kitchen counter. I have always hated this. Here I am, miss organized, and my kitchen always looks like a mess. [...]

Read Full Post »

Clutter

This is a subject that is currently close to my heart. I thought I would offer some of the tips I’m using. Maybe they can be useful to you as well! 1. I read a Feng Shui article in a magazine once. Feng Shui is HUGE on decluttering. It said something like, “Go around your [...]

Read Full Post »

More on Organizing

Found this site today. I like to skim through lists like this periodically. I’m all for ideas that can make life simpler!

Read Full Post »

Secrets

I have recently found some answers to the questions I’ve been asking for the past several months. My questions about God, about staying home with my kids, about contentedness… The wrestling has paid off. I don’t want to sound trite, so I’ve been hesitant to write about these things. Also the thought that I could [...]

Read Full Post »

Priorities and Schedules

Kim’s post today and the links she includes were very encouraging to me. Kim has nine, yes, nine children. This is the kind of person I was talking about that would have to know how to make a household work! The common thread I find in most of the reading I have done about household [...]

Read Full Post »

Recall

If you are one of the 5 million people I know who owns one of these, you might want to know that the soft blocks on them have been recalled in models made in 2005. They’ll send you new ones for free. Product recalls of this sort always kind of make me laugh, because who [...]

Read Full Post »

Clutter

I came across this list of suggestions for keeping your house organized today. Some of it is common sense, and some of it wouldn’t work for us, but there are some interesting ideas. I found it rather funny that most of the suggestions were from parents of one or two kids. I have this mental [...]

Read Full Post »