Getting Ready for School

Today was the little "ice cream social" aka visit your new classroom and put your school supplies away day at Kendle's school. This year Kendle's class is out in a pod near the playground and her new teacher seems very peppy, friendly, and nice. I think Kendle will really enjoy her. We found her desk and her cubby and looked around the room a bit. Morgan was very taken with a big fake bear rug the teacher had draped over the chair in the reading corner. He was ready to sit down and stay a while.

I just put the Morgster down for a nap and Riley took Kendle out for the afternoon on a little daddy daughter date. While they are gone I am going to take advantage of the time to clean out and organize her room a bit. I feel like it needs to be done before school starts on Monday. If I'm extra industrious I hope to have time to clean out all of her hair accessories in the bathroom cupboard. She has tons of little barrettes and things that don't fit in her hair anymore, so it's time to chuck them. I bought some new clear plastic storage containers to put all the rubber bands, headbands, clips, ribbons, etc. in and hopefully that will help somewhat tame the chaos of searching for something to put in her hair.

I feel like I'm kind of behind this year on getting all of the school stuff done. Kendle has quite a few pairs of pants that I wanted to hem because they are too long, but maybe I can get that done next week. Come to think of it, I should put some reinforcement material behind the knees of all of her pants now too. I don't know what she does at school, but her jeans never last very long. I know I'm not alone with that problem.

This weekend we'll be working to get ready for the new school/fall season. I've got some baking to do, lunch supplies to get ready, and school clothes to iron. Riley will be working on our fence that needed some mending and getting the car washed and cleaned out. Also, hopefully putting up our new wall lights from Ikea that will go by our bed. I'm excited about our bedroom makeover I've been working on the last few weeks. I'll have to post some pictures when I'm all done.

I can feel the change in the air and I'm looking forward to fall, the cooler weather, and perhaps having a bit more time to start getting ready for these baby boys to get here. I feel like the nesting and cleaning frenzy is already kicking in and I'm driving my family crazy with how cranky I've been lately about the house not being spotless. I know that it is just those fabulous hormones rearing their ugly head. Riley knows by now though that if things aren't just so, I go crazy and don't feel prepared. As the saying in our house goes, "If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy." I usually feel bad after I get mad about something, but there is just something about a stray sock or shoe laying in the middle of the floor and everyone just walks around it like it's not there that drives me absolutely insane! I know I should be used to it by know and let it slide, but I just can't. Some things just will always bug me.

Well, off to go work. Then I'm taking the rest of the night off! Ha.

Organizing School Outfits

I have had so much on my mind lately - babies, back to school shopping, getting our house ready to sell, etc... my mind is constantly going in a thousand different directions. Back before school let out for the summer, I found a great idea for keeping the "what am I going to wear today?" drama to a minimum and bookmarked it to use for this coming school year. I will give anything a try that will perhaps make my life a little less hectic and a bit more organized. Check out these cool "days of the week tags":

You can go here to print them out for free. You have the option of choosing the bright colors or some pretty pastel colors for girls. I would use a heavy card stock to make them more durable. You can have your kids help you put outfits together at the beginning of the week and be done. (I need some more of those clip hangers for the pants.)

I'm thinking as long as I can keep up on the laundry, (I am the queen of throwing in late night laundry loads when I suddenly remember Kendle has worn every pair of pants she owns) this just might make the morning school routine a lot more pleasant around our house.

Looking for suggestions

I'm trying to organize all of Kendle's hair accessories and wanted to know if anyone has some good ideas for containing all of those rubber bands, ribbons, barrettes, clips, and headbands. Kendle has a TON, and maybe we need to weed through and toss out things we don't wear anymore. Right now I have them in a couple of little baskets with handles underneath the bathroom sink, but it has become a disorganized mess spilling over into the rest of the items I store under there. It makes finding things in a hurry impossible. Do you store them according to what they are? I've tried to group them, but they seem to all end up back in one jumbled mess. Am I the only one who has this problem?