Mommy Monday

One thing I've had to learn lately is that plans don't always go how you plan them. This is extremely true when you have little ones. I am all about schedules and planning but sometimes you just have to throw your hands in the air and let the chips fall where they may............ or the Legos, doll clothes, puzzle pieces, or whatever it may be. 

Since our schedules have changed up a bit lately it means we are pretty much gone all day Sunday and the usual household chores don't get done. This mean double duty Monday. I'm having to adjust but it seems to be going good. Homeschooling is just split up a bit more and she does part of it on her own, but my kid is a genius so that's not a problem....lol. 

I've had to realize if it doesn't get done no one will starve, go unclothed (yes pajamas are clothes), or or suffer in any way. I've strayed from my schedule and routine a lot lately and the world hasn't ended or anything so I guess all my worrying all this time wasn't necessary. 

Some days it's okay if the house is a mess, the dishes are dirty, and you live in your pjs all day. The kids will grow fast and I need to spend every min I can with them. 

Now for your viewing pleasure......

STORY TIME WITH KADEE AND DYLAN

 This is Kadee trying to get Dylan to hold the book to read it. 

 This face says it all........."mom tell her I can't read yet"

  

Mommy Monday

It's mommy Monday and after a long weekend away from the house I feel refreshed and ready to jump into reorganizing, cleaning out, and redecorating. 

After the usual morning cleaning; making beds, starting laundry, vacuuming floors, and general straightening; I decided to start on Kadees bedroom. This weekend while hitting up some thrift shops me and my friend found some cute items to repurpose for the room. I'm going to get some paint and repaint the items in my color scheme; fuchsia, turquoise, lime green, orange, and purple. The color scheme is based off this cute piggy bank that my daughter got when she was a baby. 

The lighting on the picture isn't the best but you get the idea of the colors. I'm going with solids because I feel they will grow with her and last longer style wise. We can add different items as the years go on and her tastes change. 

Of our thrift store finds we bought this wooden knick knack shelf.

These wire frame picture holders, which I plan on putting tutu skirts on.

And these figurines that will all get a solid coat of paint in one of the colors.

We also have these wooden letters that were used in her nursery and made by her nana that we will be repainting to match as well. 

So in preparation today for redecorating we cleaned, rearranged, and got rid of some items. It's crazy to see how much my baby has grown but we got rid of a full laundry hamper of too small clothes. Lucky little sister will be getting those in a few years, maybe sooner if she grows like her sister. This is the final product of rearranging furniture, at least for now. My idea is to put shelves all the way around the room for items but I might settle for a random scatter of long shelves since this is an apartment and  I don't want to custom make something that won't be able to transfer to a new house when needed. 

I will tackle the dresser issue when we have the money although this one is used for puzzles and books so I might switch to a small cubby type shelving unit instead. I've also been wanting to mount her tv on the wall up high so she isn't able to mess with the DVD player or pull it down off the surface it's sitting on. I'm also going to try and convince my husband to let me paint her toy box, which happened to be his growing up. I'll let you know how that one goes. 

As you can see my daughter has already pulled the toys back out. 

Her closet got a streamlined look as well after ridding of extra clothes. 

The dresser currently has pjs, panties, and socks in it but when we get a new dresser for the room the contents will get transferred to it and this dresser will be moved. 

While I was on the cleaning out kick I went through the new baby girl's clothes and opened up the next size up bag of clothes. About a month after she was born I went through all the saved hand me downs, & garage sale and thrift store buys to separate them into sizes. They were all bagged according to size and I just open the next size up when the time comes. I ended up getting rid of about  a diaper box full of 0-3 month clothes that no longer fit. Gonna be making a trip to the consignment shop soon. 

Hubby is in for a surprise when he gets home as well. We will be going through our closet tomorrow...

After the revamp of Kadee's bedroom I will move to her bathroom. The bathroom shouldn't take too long. We already have the hot pink towels. Just need to get a few bathroom accessories, a few box shelves for the wall, and a rug and call it done. 

Its getting to be garage sale season again so I can't wait to find items to paint and repurpose for the rooms. I might even start on our bedroom if I find items that will fit in my theme. 

Nap time is about over so I must finish up the cleaning so we can play the rest of the day and do a little school in the evening.