A thoughtful week

This was a good week, I really felt like I was getting somewhere. I don't know if I really am, but I felt like I was and that's good enough for me.

Something else I realized this week is that I need to find a way to lock my pantry. It has pocket doors that slide easily. Edison opens it up and takes everything out that he can reach. So my pantry is messy again.

I've been making breakfast more often and I've also been gaining weight. I'm hoping the weight is from the 3 days of eating out for lunch and dinner when my in-laws were here. But it might be because the only breakfasts I've been making are baked goods. Lots of muffins and pancakes and breakfast cookies. I've also realized most breakfasts are not healthy. So I'll have to find some good healthy recipes to mix in with the unhealthy ones.

My goals for the week went well. I got the junk out of my car and made sure all the important stuff was in the glove box. It needs to be vacuumed and wipes out, but I'll figure that out later. I got some more of Alex's baby book done. I'm getting closer! My coupons are put nicely in my folder and I actually used some when I went shopping. And My 72 hour kit is ready to go in case we need it.

So here comes another week.

I want to have a cleaning schedule so I made one. A lot of it I got from the Fly Lady. I liked what they were teaching, but I needed to make it more for me. So every day I have something I clean during the day, some days have scheduled laundry, and then I have a "hot spot" that I need to clean off. I'm sure I'm missing stuff, but I'll figure it out as I go. I also have a list of chores for the kids to do. This is in addition to my daily jobs like cleaning up after dinner and straightening and vacuuming the family room.

One of my "hot spots" is my craft table but it's not organized. So that's what I want to do this week, clean off my table and make sure everything has a home. I've cleaned off my table before but I just put things on the floor until I was done with the table and then put all the stuff back. No more of that! Here is the before picture:



To go with that I've got a few scrapbook pages for Alex's album (not baby book) that I started but haven't finished. Those are on the ironing board near the craft table. So I'm going to finish those and put them away. and also because I have more, finish 2 more pages of Alex's baby book that I started but need something small to finish.

My preparedness goal is to put working flashlights in an easily accessible area and not let the kids play with them. This might mean having some they can play with and some they can't.

This is a lot for me to think about this week. Bring it on!