What a wild couple of months we’ve had. After making our way through colds and fevers much of January, the week before Abel was born we discovered the kids had head lice.
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Summer Vacation – The Packing
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
Last week we hit the road for a 27 day long Fun Fest. A big challenge for this vacation was the packing. There would obviously be a lot of people and also two potentially very different climates we would be spending time in. All blazing in Texas with a lot of swimming but possibly AWESOMELY chilly in Vail with some hiking.
Here are some of the things I tried this year.
Organizing or Agonizing – Kids’ Craft Supplies
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Many moons ago I wrote about wanting to finally get around to doing something about this Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad craft closet in the hall. I did make progress last Fall but it still wasn’t great. Well now it is.
As always with organizing you can find such wonderful beautiful cute ideas to store craft supplies for kids. Entire rooms or sections of a room dedicated to cultivating the imagination of your little artists. And as always I swoon. But in Practical Land where I live with 80 hooligans I have to be real. This closet and the kitchen table work well for us.
And I just think clear containers are best when it comes to seeing what you have to work with. For kids seeing what’s available at a glance can make a smoother path to creativity. I raided The Container Store. They have so many affordable containers that were the perfect solution for this project. I used these (these are great too), these and these. And as a BLAST from the PAST I got some of these. Anyone else remember how popular those little containers were?! They are perfect for keeping wooden stir sticks, google eyes, sequins, brads all sort of tiny things you’ll definitely need for that stunning award winning craft your working on.
I might eventually make fancier labels for the boxes but for now my chalk board marker is doing the job. It does get wiped off after a while but it’s not that hard to rewrite while your admiring the beautiful organization you’ve just poofed into existence.
The problem with organizing is once you start is really hard to stop. Everywhere you look around the house is another spot or room that could use some organizing, repurposing and overall making more functional. So, what’s next?
Organizing or Agonizing – Pantry
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Sometimes I need to sit down and write out some of the details of how I’m doing different parts of life at the moment. For posterity or reference or something like that.
This time I’m typing up the state of my pantry or pantries. There are two I suppose. One on each side of our fridge. And these bad boys are deep!
