Day 1 - Organize & Utilize

So a little clarification - as I was reading the comments off my FB wall, I noticed that some were telling me "You are doing great Sariah"... I felt like my last post might have been read in a negative light...? Well, let me explain for a bit.

You know that corner in your room with all the clutter? The one you say "I'll get to that next week"... it's now been 120 weeks and still it's there? Or the Laundry Room that has a basket of mis-matched clothes or clothes that need hemmed or clothes that you don't know what to do with because they aren't quite fitting you right now but you don't know if you should get rid of them just yet... so they are in a hamper instead? :-) Well, I have a bunch of tiny projects all over the house but either exhaustion, kids, business, or laziness (there, i said it - I can be lazy!) gets in the way and they never get done! SO for the next 20-some days, I promised myself to be better, to work harder at my life and to get things DONE before the new year :-)

Today I focused on Cy's stuffed animals.  Since he was a baby (22 months ago) - I wanted to put up a net on his wall.  Well, I couldn't find one at Target, Wal-mart or Toys'R'Us (It totally could be user error and they actually DO sell them) but I couldn't find them! So, this morning I started thinking about how to fix it.  OH! Take a sheet, fold it, and nail it up.  No... sheet is too big.  A pillow case? No the pillow case is too small. 

But what If I cut the pillow case? This is an old pillow case and I'm all about recycling what I can and using them in other ways.  I still don't do well with it but it's something I want to be better at.  We just throw away SOOO much trash in the country - it's ridiculous!

I cut it down just one side, and it was ready to go!

I nailed it up on the wall.  The Back of the pillow case to the back of the wall and the 2 flaps were nailed up front.

We threw the stuffed animals in (yes, I threw them from across the room because I wanted to make sure it would hold) and we are good to go! I love this! It was free, or cheap for those who don't have extra pillowcases and I can do so much with the pillowcase now! I can tie-dye it, dye it to match Cy's room, I can cricut (Is that how you spell it?) the letters of his name and iron them on, I can do so much with that plain pillowcase to make it "Cy" and match his room! But for now... I'm just proud of have finally found a home for all those annoying animals that take up SO much space! ;-)


The other thing I focused on today was Cy and letting him help.  He needs to start learning how to do chores and helping around the house.  I really want to teach him to be clean and respectful of his things.  So we washed dishes together.  It was a blast... and my kitchen floor got a real good moppin'! Now if you do not have patience, I do NOT suggest washing dishes for you.  It was very hard for me to keep my smile on while he dumped water on the floor and got himself soaking wet or how he constantly put the clean dishes back into the soap water.  But he had a blast and then went around the house looking for more dishes to clean :-D See? He's already wanting to help clean up! LOVE IT! I'm sure after nap he'll have forgotten all about it but for now... I'll enjoy Mr. Super Clean Cy!

Happy Monday to all my dear friends! What are YOU going to accomplish today that has been waiting for you??