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  • The New Year

    Welcome 2011!!
    With the arrival of 2011 I’ve been thinking of what I want to do with my life, where I want to be going, who I want to be.  So I’ve decided to make a few changes to this blog.  It will no longer just be about my home organization and design.  I will be posting recipes, exercises, personal goals and accomplishments, giveaways and still continue to share my home organization and designs with you.  
    So what do I want to accomplish this year?  A lot.
    1. Home Organization (still my number 1!)
    2.  I want to lose 10 lbs.  It’s not a big number, but I know it’s something I can accomplish.
    3. Coinciding with #2 I want to be healthier in exercise and food choices.
    4. I want to run in at least 2 races this year
    5. Buy our first home.  
    These really aren’t in any particular order, as they all have significance to me.  #5 is especially exciting.  For 5 years we have been renting, or living with family.  We are finally ready to purchase our very first home.  I posted awhile back about the home we put an offer on.  We’re still waiting to hear back from them.  If we do get that home, there is going to be so much to post on here!  It needs a lot of updating and personal touches to it, that I am already excited about doing.  I know I know, I need to be patient, our offer hasn’t even been accepted, but I like to dream.
    #3 and #4 come from my past actually.  In high school I ran cross country. I was never the best, but I loved running.  After going off to college and getting married and having kids, I put running and exercise on the back burner.  No longer.  I ran a 4miler at the end of 2010, and although it was rough, I enjoyed every minute of it! I want to set a good example of health for my children, so they know how important health is to a happy life.
    I hope the New Year finds you all in good health and spirit.  May your 2011 be a good one!!  
  • Princess’ Room

    Princess’ Room

    This is the room I was dreading!  But I finally made it in, and am pretty happy with the results!  I seem to have lost the before pictures, but take a look in your kids bedroom and I’m sure you can imagine what this looked like with 2 toddler girls living in it!

    Under the bed everything went in boxes and then were labeled.  We have blocks, trains, baby dolls, little dolls, and barbies 
    beds made and floor vacuumed! 
    toy drawers organized, but they still need labels – bottom has animals, middle has balls, and top is all the miscellaneous toys that don’t have a place. 
    books on the bookshelf, and dresser cleaned off. 
    shoes in a wonderful shoe rack from IKEA. large toys in closet, musical instruments out of reach! 
    Stuffed animals and only stuffed animals in the big bin.  Dresses gone through, and too small ones removed. 
    Fun kitchen play area!  I really like this area (although it’s hard for me to get in and clean) because it allows the Princess’ to pretend like they are really in their own kitchen, and their imagination flourishes!
    The last thing I did in here that is not visible go through all the girls clothes and boxes of clothes.  We put a box together for storage for Princess V, and then moved Princess V’s clothes to Princess C’s drawers, and then pulled out stored clothes for Princess V.  It was lots of work, and sometimes had to be redone (I had some “little” help).  But I am so excited for the organization in there.  Last night, lots of toys were all over the place again, but because everything had a place, clean up was 3x’s as fast as it has ever been before!!!