Everything in its place, and everything has a place.

This is a saying that you hear all the time, maybe especially from your mother, am I right? well what does this mean to you? When you hear this you pick up, clean up, straighten whatever you want to call it. Well I'm sure that the majority of us have a rough idea of where things go and are supposed to go in your home, but if your not careful it doesn't take long for things to get a little cluttered and chaotic.

SOLUTION: Everything cannot go in its place if not everything has a place. Yes everything. I know this seems silly. You are thinking to yourself right now Dah lady! But if you think about it can you tell me that every single item in your home has a designated spot? A spot that maybe not just mom uses but everyone in the house because that place is that items known home.

GAME PLAN: Re organize! This is so helpful. We just moved in September and we got rid of a lot of things that we no longer had use for, so you would think that would help right? Wrong. Because when we moved everything got put in a place, but nothing seemed like it was in a well organized, permanent, really makes perfect sense that's there spot. So the game plan was to re organize! I started little by little one project at a time. The coat closet, baskets in the cubbies, other living room space, kitchen cabinets, top of the fridge (always gets cluttered in our house) spear bedroom, bathroom closet, bathroom cabinets, rest of bathroom and vanity, B's room, and lastly our room. I literally did one thing at a time. Its not so overwhelming that way.

THROW THINGS AWAY OR GIVE AWAY: As I was going through all of these steps and cleaning and re organizing these different spaces I was really being active in throwing things away that are no longer needed or giving them away to someone or some organization that could use them. If you haven't thought twice about it in over a year get rid of it. If you came across it cleaning something out and and forgot you even owned such an item get rid of it. Don't keep things just because. There is no need to keep items because you may one day need them if you haven't needed them in all this time.

BINS, BASKETS AND CRATES:  Use plastic bins, wicker baskets, crates etc. Whatever system works for you and in  your space. There is nothing better than having things organized and easy to find. Even get or make some labels that way no family member that can read can claim they didn't know where that goes :) My bathroom closet for instance has bins for different things. One for lotions and body powders, one for hygiene stuff like shampoos, toothpaste etc. and one for medicine items. This keeps like things together and easy to find. It also makes less clutter happen, Everything has a place and if it goes back in the designated basket then it looks like it did before it got taken out... Wonderfully organized.

Tomorrow I will be posting pictures of the newly organized residence! Hopefully this gives you a visual of what I am babbling on about and maybe even inspire you to whip your house into an organized shape! Until then ta ta for now! and remember Everything in its place, and everything has a place!

Some Wonderful Winter Fun

Well winter isn't just about the holidays, although all that stuff is fun too! Today I would like to share with you some of the fun things that we got to do with B this winter so far. We haven't had a lot of snow this season so there hasn't been any snowman building or anything like that, but I think that we are still trying hard to make things fun!

I try to find things that are put on by the community, I feel like its always good to support your community to it can thrive!

This year we went to a tree lighting at a local park, and this was really cool. Aside from there being a tree lighting they had musical entertainment. A really nice funny woman who sang a lot of holiday songs with the kids, There was hot cocoa and other treats and indoor activities like making crafts. The best part though, I have to say was they had awesome photo ops with Santa, Frosty the snowman, Rodolph, and even a Gingerbread man!!

Beez was a little starstruck but Rudolph!! He couldn't take his eyes off of him! So all in all that was a great trip and something that B really enjoyed and maybe I liked it a little too!!

For the first time ever this year we actually got to put lights up outside our dwelling place! Its so nice to have a home not a house or an apartment, but our home to our own! So this holiday season we were so excited to put lights up on the house!! Well, I was excited I don't know if my hubby was thrilled about going out in the cold up on a ladder and hanging all the lights but he did. What a guy huh??! B also thought he was very helpful in this process and loved to watch what daddy was doing!!

B also got to be in the holiday parade that our city puts on. I thought he would like it but man was I wrong... He loved it!! He truly had a blast waving to everyone lined up along the streets. He just kept yelling "HI KIDS" and throwing fist fulls of candy. I think we will definitely be doing this again next year! And no that's not coffee in his hands that is hot cocoa! LOL

Well that's all I have time for right now!! I hope that you guys are having as much fun reading these as I am writing them. And maybe even giving you ideas or inspiring you to spend some fun time with your families!!

Christmas Festivities

Well we had a really awesome Christmas this year.  I don't know if it was because we got to have our first Christmas in our new house or because it wasn't as cold as usual. I don't know but it was great but busy. As you guys know we did the 25 days of Christmas experiences for our son. That turned out really great and kept us remembering to spend good quality time together and not getting to busy in the holiday season that you forget what its all about.

Besides that the actual holidays were really busy but fun. Christmas Eve we went to my mothers house to celebrate with my moms extended family, and then after that we went to my husbands mothers house to celebrate with that part of the family and his siblings. It was a crazy and long Christmas Eve.

After we got home we of course put out cookies for Santa and carrots for all of his reindeer :) Then B gets to open one gift on Christmas Eve, new jammies!! We then got to cuddle up and read Twas The Night Before Christmas before we headed off to bed. He loved the book and his new pajamas.

Santa wrote B a letter back!

B with his "Night Before Christmas" book and wearing his new Jammies

Well the night flew by and before you knew it we were up and B caught glimpse of the Christmas tree that was once so bare underneath but now was full of wrapped gifts just for him :) We let him open a few of his gifts before we headed to my mothers house! We have a tradition of going to moms every Christmas morning to open gifts with each other and have breakfast, (always Cinnamon rolls) But this year we made regular rolls and then even put some in the waffle press so we could have Cinnamon roll waffles. They were excellent! My Super mom also put out a hot chocolate bar which was the perfect beverage for Christmas morning!

My husband decked out in all his new Vikings gear

The hot chocolate bar!

After our early morning festivities with my moms, stepfather and brother we went back home to let our son open the rest of his Christmas gifts and his big Santa gift!! He really loved everything he got this year. Its the great thing about a two year old. Everything they get they think its the coolest thing ever!

We snuck his big gift in his room. It was his train table! So my hubby, bless his heart did a lot of pre- Christmas assembly so there wouldn't be any disappointing wait time. After all the gifts under the tree were opened he got to go in his room and she what Santa left. To say he was excited doesn't really even begin to describe what he was feeling. It was awesome for my husband and I to see him so thrilled and it made us happy that this year we were able to get him a "big" gift that he will truly enjoy!

B playing with his new train table

My fav pic of him from Christmas 2012

 

Then as though all that wasn't enough we went back to my moms for a bit to eat real holiday food :) Then after that off to my husbands Dad and stepmother's house a delicious dinner and some company of all of his family and brothers :) All in all it was so busy but we wouldn't have it any other way, it was also very awesome and we are so blessed to be able to spend good quality time with all of our family members.

I hope that your Holiday season was as bright as ours! Full of love and joy! As always have a wonderful day please share your comments and opinions!