a favorite blog of mine

IHeart Organizing

Wendy sent me a link to this blog several months ago ... and I have loved it and stalked it loyally since then.  I love the ideas and the color this blogger uses to do her projects, organize her home AMAZINGLY, and still make it a livable, comfortable place for her family.

Although, I don't have near her talent or resources, I've tried a little project here or there to organize in a cute way.  Because why organize if it's not cute, right?

I made rings for each day of the week and also for the clothes that are up and coming .... you know ... the 4T's and 10's.  Generally, I'm not here in the  morning when my kids get up and ready for the day but I'd still like to see that they have something presentable to wear.  Or something to wear at all.

I put 3M hooks inside their closet doors to hold tomorrow's clothes and another hook on the other door for a sock corral.  Are we the only family losing socks more often then the kids wear them?  That way, when the kids take them off, rather than put them in the hamper, they'll put them in their own laundry bag that zips up and can be tossed in the wash.  No more missing socks .... we hope.

That's that.  A small, weekday project.

p.s.  I have discovered and am in LOVE with Picasa 3!

It's my week....again

Unfortunately, I erased the horrific picture of the enormous piles of laundry we had a few weeks ago. Luckily, it was a Sunday when the piles were at their worst. Sunday is the changing of the guard for laundry duty. (I almost just spelled duty like dootie. It must be time that I get a new duty.) I'd like to say it's a fair exchange for the chore but I think my sisters would beg to differ. I agree with them that Jake is very helpful, but I don't think we should try to stomp out his desire to serve.

Anyway....it's my week again. I'm good at keeping the laundry moving from the hamper, to the washer, to the dryer. Then there's kind of a stick in my spokes. The infamous laundry-holding chair in my bedroom, becomes a monstrous, mountainous pile of clean clothes. I'd argue that a pile of clean laundry is convenient for picking out tomorrow's clothes.
Now on Jake's weeks, the laundry is washed, dried, and hung. Not only that, Jake tries to get my clothes hung how I organize them. He does the sheets too! I'm afraid the nickname and his impersonation of Dobby the House Elf is not temporary. I'm more grateful then I can express for all Jake does but my insensitive mouth dared ask him if I give him a sock, will he be free? Just in case, I hid all the socks.

Listen, the point of this is....I need help. Not the literal, do my laundry, kind of help. I just need to know how to find the motivation to finish the laundry when it's dirty again in a micro-second. Is there a laundry routine/system that I can believe in?