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February 20, 2007

Read to Me

Since Christmas, our reading as a family and individual reading time really has dropped. We were having so much fun reading a book together each evening. When I ran across this challenge at Jennifer’s blog Snapshot, I thought it was a perfect motivation tool for myself. If you think that you would like to join in, head on over to here blog to learn more. Our goal is to read together each evening. I want to get back to reading the Narnia series. We were reading it faithfully each day, but we stopped around Christmas time. Now, it’s February and…

Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Kitchen Organization

Posted in Homemaking

I keep telling myself that I’m going to clean off all the stuff on top of the fridge. I really don’t like having things on top of the fridge, but D didn’t have anywhere else to put all his coffee and drink mixes. So, I decided to re-organize the glass/cup cabinet. Some of the glasses in there weren’t being used as they were things that we got from the Marine Corps Ball. I put those into storage which allowed a whole shelf to be free for all of D’s things. Better yet, the fridge top is now free of stuff!…

January 26, 2007

Heather L

Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Bookcase Organization

Posted in Homemaking

Over at The Sparrows Nest they are having anti-procrastination week. Well, I’m a little late on getting started, but since I’m feeling a little better today, I thought I would try to take part in the challenge. I have been putting off organizing the bookshelves. Now, for most people this wouldn’t be a big deal, but since we homeschool, we tend to have a lot of books. We have purged a lot of books in preparation for the upcoming move, but I still have a huge, unorganized mess. So, that is what I’m taking on today. Here are the before…