goal switch

Last week started off with project night. It was really good, I got rid of one box of random stuff. It was mostly Tyler's school art projects, but I went through them all and organized the ones I wanted to keep. I didn't finish Alex's baby book at project night, but I did finish it during the week. Woo Hoo I am done! Later in the week I pulled out all my DI stuff and got it ready to go, but I didn't put it in my car. The next day I drove right by DI and was so sad I forgot my stuff. So it's still in my bedroom, but soon to be in my car. I didn't clean my storage buckets because I need to go buy lids for them, but I did do something else. I bought a fire/water proof box for all my important documents. My kids birth certificates, passports, ss cards, all that stuff was in a pile on a book shelf and other places. A few times we had to search to find things and it was driving me crazy. I didn't want to get a regular plastic box because I wanted to make sure these things would survive in an emergency situation. So I got a box and everything Is neatly put away. I also didn't get paint samples, oh why is this so hard.

I know I said my storage room would be my next project, but I've changed my mind. I'm really embarrassed by this, but I am failing at meal planning. I look at the adds every week and I still don't know what to make. So I've decided to try something new. I'm going to try this:

http://littlenannygoat.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-heck-it-30-meal-plan.html

I think this will help me in a few areas. first is meal planning, second is organizing my recipes because they are a mess, and third is building my 3 month food storage. I'm not going to set a specific goal because I don't know how long it will take me, I just want to get started.

My next craft project is a quilt. Everyone told me not to but I did it anyways. I told my friend Bobbie I'd make her a quilt of the SLC temple. I want to get this done as soon as possible. So this week I want to get all the paper piecing printed out.

Wish me luck.

Back to Work

Do you ever have a week were you feel like you are always doing something, but nothing gets done. That's how I'm feeling about my last week. I worked on cleaning off my counter, I made some progress but there is more stuff I need to figure out were it goes. And I did nothing for Alex's baby book. So I hope I can finish it during project night.

A couple of weeks ago when I was going through the boys clothes I found some baby clothes that needed to be put in its corresponding box in the storage room. I went to the storage room and I couldn't get to clothes box. I have been putting stuff in there gradually that I didn't realize it was getting so messy. So even though I don't want to, my next project will be my storage room. I'm going to begin by getting rid of my DI box. It's sitting by the door and it's overflowing. I'm going to get it out and put it in my car so that the next time I go that way I can drop it off. I'm also going to figure out what is in there and where things should go.

I also have empty buckets that I need to wash and fill with my big bags of rice and sugar.

I am going to be doing a lot of crafts this weekend; finish baby book, make poster for ward activity, bind a quilt, ... So after I finish those I'm going to give myself a break for the rest of the week. Maybe I'll read a book.

And just to throw in something else, I want to get paint samples for my room.

Do you do Spring Cleaning?

Back To Basics

I went through my kids clothes this week. They have a lot of clothes, I'm really jealous. It was really good to get that taken care of because I haven't seen the bottom of their closet in a long time. I got 2 more pages of Alex's baby book done, but only 2. I'm worried about my deadline of next week, but I'll finish it soon.

So I haven't had my kitchen clean in a long time. I've had family in town and things I've been doing in the evening so I've been putting it off. Also my shredder broke so I have a pile of mail and papers on my counter that need to be taken care of. So this week I'm going to focus on getting my kitchen and the other things in my house I've already cleaned clean again. Once I get everything back in order I'll start new projects because I have plenty.

I'm still planning on project night so I'll try to finish as much of Alex's baby book as I can and finish the rest then.

Motivated Confusion

I started this week really motivated. On Monday I went through the kids art supplies and workbooks. I thought this would take me a really long time, but I just had to get rid of some stuff and put the rest away. The only thing I don't know what to do with are the crayons. Alex loves to color so I want them easily accessible, but Edison loves to eat crayons so I want them out of his way. We have a little kids table and chair that is perfect for Alex to color on, but Edison wont leave him alone. I was thinking about giving Alex a spot on my craft desk to color (since it is so clean) but I don't have a chair that I think Alex would be fine sitting on. I think the folding chair would fold up and he would fall off the stool. When do kids stop eating crayons?

By Tuesday I had all the pictures I needed for Alex's baby book uploaded to Costco and had the paper picked out for the other pages I was going to do. I should have assigned myself more to do this week because I was feeling motivated and I never seem to do more than I plan on.

I was going to do more, but I wasn't sure what to do. My next project was going to be the toys in the play room. I have a place for everything, but everything wont stay in it's place. So this week I was looking at all the toys on the floor and thought about what my kids have played with recently. Nothing! My kids played with nothing that was on the floor they have been doing other things. So I picked something up and put it away. As soon as I put it away my kids grabbed it and said they wanted to play with it. So again nothing was put away. The main problem is that most things are in Edison's reach. If I put anything on the shelf he takes it right off. So what do I do? I was thinking about high shelves on the wall where they could see the toys but not reach them. That way they would have to ask for a toy instead of grabbing them all. But would that really happen? I envision them climbing things to reach the toys and then falling off and getting hurt. I thought about a cabinet, but if they can't see it they will forget about it and I'm worried about them climbing on that and it falling on them. So really, what should I do? Should I just wait for Edison to get older? Here is what the playroom looks like clean. Notice the nice clean paper cupboard.


So while I figure that out I've decided the weather is (hopefully) warm enough to bring out the kids shorts and put away all the clothes that don't fit. I've been throwing all the outgrown clothes in the bottom of the closet and it is getting full.

I'm also going to finish 3 pages for Alex's baby book. That's it for this week, that and just keep working on what I've been doing.

Project Night Moved

Due to scheduling conflicts I have moved project night to Saturday May 22nd.

Everyone get ready!

Good week!

I talked to the kids about strangers. I'm not worried about Tyler because he doesn't like people he doesn't know, but I am concerned about Alex. I thought about having someone try to get Alex to go with them next time we were at the playground. Is that mean to set him up?

I thought there would be a lot of crying and complaining from Tyler when I told him to do his job, but everything was fine. He happily accepted his responsibility and did it. Yay!

I hate receipts! I'm finally done going through all the old receipts and now I just have to remember to put away and organize the new ones I want to keep. I love having a clean bedroom. I don't love my bedroom but I love having it clean. I want to redo my room to make it someplace I enjoy going. I plan on it taking a long time but I'm going to start doing something. Here is the before picture:


And finally I finished a few pages of Alex's baby book. I looked through it and realized I am so close to getting it done, so here is my plan.

For the entire school year I have been putting Tyler's school projects into a box. I have put lots of other things in the box too and now it is overflowing.

So I am announcing project night! Friday May 21st from 6:30pm to 1:00am. So anyone who wants to come over is welcome, just give me a call so I know (you don't have to be there the whole time). Project night consists of sitting in my basement working on any project and watching masterpiece classics. I will be going through this box and making a binder of Tyler's projects that I want to keep. This is in 3 weeks and here is a list of what I need to do before:
-Finish Alex's baby book (I don't really need to but I should just get it done)
-clean my basement

So here are my goals for this week.

Find all the pictures I need to finish the baby book. Not get them printed, just find them on my computer and upload them to costco's photo site. Also I want to finish 2 pages that are super easy, just tape a piece of paper to a pretty piece of paper.

To start with my cleaning of the basement I am going to organize the kids art supplies and work books. I keep putting this on top of this cabinet instead of in it and now Edison is tall enough that he pulls everything off the shelves. Also we don't use everything, probably because we don't know it's there.


I want to get into the habit of making my bed. I have never cared about making my bed but I've realized that when I do it makes my room look and feel so much better. I'd like to get my kids making their beds but I think I need to start caring about mine first.

No preparedness goal. Anyone have any suggestions?