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?