Archive for April, 2008
Monthly Organizational Round-Up: Master Bedroom
Laura’s challenge for this month is the master bedroom. Seriously? Man, mine is still organized from the spring challenge last year!
Amazing, isn’t it? I mean, yes it has gotten a little cluttered and dirty sometimes, like when we got behind on laundry and it backed up in our room. But then you do laundry and [...]
WFMW – Hair Conditioner For Shaving Gel
Seriously, try it.
Don’t use your expensive conditioner, though, buy something inexpensive and moisturizing. You’ll save money and your skin will be moisturized, too.
‘Nuff said.
Works For Me Wednesday is hosted by Rocks In My Dryer.
“Stopping the Screaming” Part II
I realized after I wrote my last Works For Me Wednesday post, and especially since I titled it “Stopping the Screaming” (I was trying to sum up the point and I thought that would grab interest,) that the whole thing could come across as a little… manipulative.
To clarify: I try really hard not to manipulate [...]
Sibling Separation – Stopping the Screaming (WFMW)
It’s important that my children learn to work together, right? To that end, I usually have them cleaning up their room, getting ready for bed, or setting the table at the same time. Recently I’ve realized that it’s also important for them to learn to work independently, and that it’s okay to separate them to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Bringing Good Home With a Trampoline!
This year for the girls’ birthdays (only a month apart) I pulled strings and coordinated both sides of the family together for the first time in order to buy them one, large gift: a trampoline! I am So. Glad. I. Did. We’ve been having so much fun together, as a family, without tv, or anything [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 9 so far )How Does A Princess Learn?
I find things like learning styles and personality types interesting. I know it’s not the end all and be all of who we are. I believe that God made us each unique and there is no cookie cutter equation. I also think that there are certain patterns that can be useful to note, especially when [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Out of the Mouths of Babes…
Drama Queen:
“Dear God…And help the dogs and the cats and the lions and the giraffes and the zebras feel better when they go to the vet.”
(?)
To be fair the rest of the prayer very sincere and sweet and heartfelt. I guess I just never thought of praying for all the cats’ and dogs’ and lions’ [...]
And My Only Safety Net Was God…
3:30 a.m. I should be sleeping. But I’m not. Adrenaline does that. It’s funny that way.
It’s tornado season in Texas. And we’d been under a warning all day long. Many other counties nearby had been hit, but our little county had been spared. Until about 2:45 a.m…
I awake to a slight noise. It’s my sweet [...]
WFMW – Homemade Saxon Math
Ideally, if all things came together and the stars aligned and a magic fairy waved her wand and zapped my school supplies,… I’d be teaching Princess with a Saxon 2 Math book right now.
Alas, as the stars did not align, no fairy waved her wand, and God chose to bless me with an extra dose [...]
Out of the Mouths of Babes…
Princess (who has a birthday coming soon): “Dear God…help me to have a happy life when I’m 8, and help me to act like an 8 year old.”
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )In Defense Of My Home Management Binder
Mrs. Darling at Dishpan Dribble has invited a small amount of “controversy” in her post “Mrs. Darling’s Instruction for Home-Keeping,” and the benefits, or rather the pit-falls, of Home Management Binders. While she does have a very good point, and I’ll get to that in a minute, I felt the need to GOOD-NATUREDLY defend my [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 15 so far )We Got A Little Book-Happy At The Library
Seventeen!
We came home with SEVENTEEN books from the library after dance last Thursday. I plan on going back after dance today and exchanging the ones we’ve already read for new ones. I think we’ve read most of them, actually. We’ve been having Princess find a quiet spot after dinner and read a book. It’s been [...]
WFMW Greatest Hits – Top 5 of All Time
This week’s theme for WFMW is our “greatest hits.” Or in other words, lets cop-out and re-post something from the past since we’re all really busy.
Sounds good to me!
I pulled up my handy-dandy stats and I am pleased to present to you my:
“Top 5 WFMW Posts of All Time!”
5. Happy House Cleaning – Originally [...]
Organizing The Dining Room
There’s nothing like waiting until the very last minute to complete a project, eh?
March is over and so is the March Monthly Organizing Round-Up at I’m An Organizing Junkie. As I’m working my way through my home as well, I thought I’d follow along with her Round-Up as much as possible so today I re-organized [...]
