Our Story Begins at Home: 2011

Monday, September 12, 2011

The days of a Stay at home Mom...minus the kids!

It has been a week with both of my girls in school full time...I have been looking forward to these days for over a year. So excited for Jade (my youngest) to be in school and for me to have time for myself. But over the last few days I have been pretty lonely and bored...cleaning my whole house, doing all the laundry etc...
A few little phrases have popped in my head and have made me laugh which has kept me going...

"Can't do all the laundry...have to save some for tomorrow!"

" With all this time I have I might have to take up ironing"

"Kids have been in school for 4 days and I have visited Starbucks 3 times...I think this is becoming a habit."

"It is only 9am and I have cleaned out the toaster, wiped out the microwave and even cleaned all the cupboards...I must be bored!"

" In 1 hour I cleaned all three bathrooms, including the toilets, baseboards and the floors...and I hate cleaning...now I look forward to doing it so I have something to do"

I am loving my schedule and how clean the house is staying...but I do still miss my girls.

Well till next time...

Amanda

Monday, August 15, 2011

Organization

I started working on our Family Binder today...so excited to be organizing our busy life...
So far our binder includes
1. Important numbers
2. Girls Schedule
3. Cleaning Schedule
4. Church Events
5. Meal Planning

Can't wait to add to our binder...probably when school begins we will have to add a Julia section and a Jade section to put thier school info in.

I am using these sites for my insperation...

http://orgjunkie.com/

http://www.simplify101.com/