Laundry

This will probably be my lamest post ever, but it's something I'm excited about and it's helping me get more organized. So, I LOVE doing laundry, it is hands down, my favorite chore! I even love folding clothes and never empty the dryer without folding the clothes (I hate it if they get wrinkled). My only problem with laundry is putting it away. I'll fold it and put it in laundry baskets, where they'll stay for weeks. Then, when we're looking for clothes, and go rifling through them, the clothes get wrinkled anyways! I have wanted a table in my laundry room for a LONG time now, but couldn't justify spending full price on a table. I'd looked online for used tables, but I don't like things that look old and used. Well the other day my sister called me to tell me Superstore had a dining room table on sale for $40!! It was regular $200!! We bought it....and I got to move our old table into my laundry room!!!! IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE!!! Ok, it's not that dramatic, but I LOVE IT!! Now, when I take the clothes out of the dryer, I put them in their specific pile (each person has a pile), and there it sits. Yup, I don't put it away!! If we need clothes, we get them from the laundry room in the basement where we hang out most of the time anyways. It also works out because we take off the dirty clothes in the laundry room, where they get washed right away. No more hauling laundry baskets up and down the stairs! I actually do take the piles upstairs one at a time, every now and then if I feel like it, but if I don't, it's ok! That's all, I told you it was lame :o)

Pictures!!

It's been a while since I posted some pictures, so here are some recent ones.

Potty training is in the works, hopefully it'll go well

Ethan is obsessed with Anthony's toys

My sister and I had a girl's night, what fun!

Ethan loves his nana!!

Anthony loves eating his towel

He's getting so chubby, I love it!

Ethan just had his first sucker....and loved it!

Anthony is growing up, he loves his exersaucer!

I gave Ethan a haircut and have been flattening it, no more fuzz head, lol!

Getting Organized

Over the past few days, I've been thinking a lot about having more structure in my life. When you have a job or school to go to, there's automatically structure because you have to be there at a certain time. Since I've been home with my kids, I've lost all sense of routine and structure because there's no pressing reason to make me have it. We wake up, eat, then the rest of the day is a free-for-all. I know that kids thrive on routine and I also love to be orgainzed, so I've decided to become more organized and disciplined in my every day life and here's how:

1. I am going to wash my face, brush my teeth, and put on lotion every evening. (yes, I have let this go, I'm pathetic, what can I say?)

2. I am going to have a routine to my day. Eg. eat breakfast, do dishes while Ethan watches Barney, have silly song time, do crafts, free play, lunch, nap, etc....

3. I am going to make a meal plan every week

4. I'm going to go to bed earlier. Lately I haven't been going to bed before midnight and I'm always tired!

5. I'm limiting myself to 1 1/2 hours a day on the computer. I spend way too much time on the computer and it's a waste of my life and robs my family of quality time.

6. I'm going to drink more water. I never drink enough in a day

7. I'm going to make a cleaning schedule. Eg. Wed. is laundry, Thurs. is vaccuuming etc...

8. I'm going to live by a budget and stop making needless purchases

Wow, that's quite a list and I'm going to tackle it in baby steps so it's not overwhelming, but I need to make these changes in my life and I'm excited to do them!