Stuck on Food

Y'all may remember my menu planning sheet.

Menu Plan

	Supper	Tomorrow's Prep
M
Tu
W
Th
F
S
S

While I loved it, I was limited by a few things about it;

• needing to print a new one each week
• not laminated (on purpose, I change my mind after all!)
• not wanting to post the printed one on the fridge
• I was STILL hearing "what's for dinner"
• still forgetting what to take out because it was hidden away

Then when I was party hopping (LOVE crafty/decor blog parties, even if they do increase my project list each week) and stumbled across this.  Creative Momma D made hers out of dry erase paper with scrap booking rub on letters. "AHA!" I said as I pulled all my rub ons out and was nearly smothered.

After a quick trip to Dollarama ($2!), I now have this stuck to the front of the fridge.

Never enough tea in my kitchen!

When I finished putting the lettering on and put the menu up for the first time Hubs saw it.  Then said "I like this menu board, it's nice and simple!"

HA! Well done I say.

Well done indeed.



Eventually, I will get all the bags unpacked. Until then I'll have at least a weekly project to share!

Anyone else getting props for organizing/simplifying their lives this week?

Annoying Adenoids

This post could also be titled "Snoring will make you snotty," which is close to the truth.

While driving home from Ikea last Saturday I fell asleep in the car.  I don't know how long I slept but I woke myself up mid-snore.  Six days later I am in full on congestion mode.  My throat is sore and I can't even guess how many boxes of tissues I've gone through.


10 Things I wish I'd done this week;

10. Organize pantry, storage and bookshelf in closet
9. Put mattress protector ON Turtle's bed
8. Assemble bookshelf for girls' bedroom
7. Sort and purge everyone's clothing
6. Put away everyone's clothing
5. Unpack my books
4. Unpack the girls' books
3. Laundry, laundry and more laundry
2. Purge and put away girls' toys
1. Bake cookies!

Turtle has Friday and Monday off so I hope after a restful weekend (please?!) I'll be feeling better and can get the apartment back to normal.

It would be nice to not be tripping over orange garbage bags every time I go into another room.

Lovely Wrap Up Bugs be GONE!

I'm happy (more happy that I probably should be, but pretty dang happy!) to announce that we passed our scent dog inspection today!

3 things about having 90% of your belongings in bags since last weekend;

Not so lovely thing? I've had to dig through various bags for clothes, towels, art supplies. Pretty much any thing we've needed.

A lovelier thing - we've had a very toy free week!

Loveliest thing of all? I now realize just how little of the stuff we still have bagged we actually need.  I'm going to be decluttering as I empty bags.  If I don't have room to make a home for something, out it goes!

Long time too much napping

Last week I tackled a nice deep clean in my bedroom.  Then last Saturday I rearranged some of the furniture in my room to accommodate a new vanity/bedside table.  Haven't found the table yet but I do have the rest of the room set up and ready to go.

Here's the befores.

Looking into our bedroom.

Looking across the room from the doorway to the corner under the window.  Where Hubs' dresser used to be.

Where the bookcase used to be.  This is where the vanity is going to go.

Our closet, before a big purge/rearrange.

Look for my updated room pictures after I go garage sale'ing this weekend. I'm on the hunt for a vanity table!

Here a pile, there a pile!

So, Saturday I talked to Hubs about moving our tall IKEA Billy bookcase to the end of my desk. Our desk, the desk. Whichever, I wanted it in the office so I could have my art supplies and books at fingertip.

Hubs agreed we would try it out.  It only needed a whole lotta little rearranging.

Before - the main cause of my desperately needing wanting to rearrange was that pile on the end of my desk. That HUGE pile of every piece of paper that I had to file in some way or another in the storage closet. The storage closet that had waaaaaaay too much stuff in it!  Really, there were a few other piles here and there and everywhere for me to relocate to filing.

So began the not-so great rearrange of this weekend. I'll spare you the details and photos of what I had to do to get to this point.  That would be the tall bookcase on it's way from the storage closet to the office.

Did I mention I had a helper for this madness fabulous idea I had?

Somehow Turtle doesn't look as exhausted enthused as her mommy!  Probably because she knows that this means her room/closet is next!

The weekend ended with everything in a rough set up.  The piles? They are still on my desk. And the dining room table. And the floor of the storage closet. Yikes!  Look for an update tomorrow as I slog through the piles now that I can happily easily reach all my filing.