A Busy Day

So, remember yesterday when I said the girls and I were going to have an adventure? Well we did! I a matter of speaking. I guess everything is a matter of speaking though. So I guess I will say, or write rather, that we did have an adventure!

Ok, enough mumble jumble!

So, we didn't do anything very much totally out of the ordinary in relative terms. But, the girls added to their knowledge and I did slay my closet monster! So that's something. Let me share....


I took the girls into the "back yard" to play. That was very short lived! We were only out there for about 15 minutes. No matter what games I tried playing with them, they both insisted on running towards the road, in separate directions. Of course. That on the grass was very itchy, so that wasn't great.

So we ended coming inside to the nice cool air conditioning! Diana played with a cute fun fish puzzle. We went through the different names of the fish and put it together about 20 times. Ellie joined us after a bit and Diana tried teaching her, it was cute. :)

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We then did some flash cards! In my excitement and the anticipation of starting to home school the little ones, I bought flash cards while at Target. Their real simple, just primary shapes in different colors. Diana and I went over them together and Ellie just played with them. It was pretty fun. It kept them amused for about an hour! So that was kinda awesome. :)

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The girls trailed along with me as I cleaned and organized. We cleaned the bathroom and and I reorganized the bathroom closet. I have been collecting huggies wipe containers to use as storage containers. That way I can buy a necessity like wipes and buy super cute storage containers at the same time!

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Then, I went through the daunting task of going through my makeup. Since I don't use makeup very much anymore, I don't tend to go through it very often. It's just all thrown into the same messy container, so sad!

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While visiting Sarah the other day, she passed along an adorable storage container that her mom gave her. Isn't it pretty? It has a nice magnetic clasp on the inside, it's pink and I love it! At first I was going to give it to the girls for some toys, but it's so cute I just can't bare to see it potentially destroyed. Plus, I needed an excuse to organize my makeup!

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Oh yes, so much better!

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Now... I must warn you. The images below are graphic in nature and all those with sensitive eyes and clean closets should stop right here....

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Final warning! Grab your brooms and busy yourselves elsewhere!!!

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AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Must be the work of some closet Monster Dragon, surly no human could have created such a mess?!?! Right... no??? .....

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And of course, as I attempt to clean and organize the mess it somehow seems to only get worse....

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Talk about shameless photo uploads! You can see now why I was putting this HUGE project off. And really, it's not nearly as bad as it looks! The sleeping bag just needs rolled up and..... I don't even know. It was bad!I'll admit it... :P

I honestly didn't know if I was going to be able to upload these pictures after seeing on the computer just how bad it looks. But, I figure it may be inspirational. Inspirational maybe only in the fact that no area of your house could be half that bad. But Inspirational anyway.

But, guess what? I cleaned it! Yup, every single thing! I was in a zone, on a rampage, I honestly don't know how it got done. I was throwing things away left and right and folding like a crazy person. Even the girls just seemed to stare in awe and wonder. (When they weren't busy playing king of the mountain on the clothes piles....that is.....)

But after 3 hours, 2 FULL garbage bags, 3 loads of laundry and countless hangers I finished! It felt so amazing to get that clean. It about knocked hubby's socks off when he saw it. :)

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So, our day went by very quickly. We had a lot of fun and got a lot done. It almost makes me wish I was this productive ever day! Almost..... ;)

Wordless Wednesday & Thoughts to Ponder and Inspire!

I find these images/quotes both inspiring and energizing! God created a great big adventurous world out there just full of things for us to explore and do! So, off we go today! Have fun out there everyone :)

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Just Another Tuesday

So, this morning hubby and I woke up late and had a liesurly breakfast in the garden before he went off to work.

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Then I preceded to do some laundry... in the middle of a field...in an evening gown. I so do love to do laundry in an evening gown!

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I then completely organized my kitchen

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And went through and cleaned out my fridge. hhmmm... what healthy and nummy dinner shall I make tonight????

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NOT! Obviously... this isn't the truth. I really didn't do laundry in an evening gown. Well, none of it's true actually. :) I will say this, today has been probably one of the least un motivated days of my life...my life. It's not even that Im tired...I just have no get up and go. I don't want to clean, I don't feel like organizing, dishes seem just like a drag, doing yet another load of laundry seems so pointless. I don't even feel like doing anything that would be considered "relaxing" I don't want to watch tv, be on the computer... anything! I just don't know what to do!

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I have of course, taken care of played some games with the babies. But even they seem kind of out of it. We did have a really busy weekend and we were gone most of the day yesterday. I guess it's just one of those days where you need to wind down and reboot!

But Im curious, when the rest of you feel like a slug on a hot day (gross!) what do you do to get motivated? Cause Im am just out of ways of trying to trick myself into getting motivated!

I did consider doing those posts about our trip to Kentucky that I keep talking about... but organizing and going through the almost 1000 photos I took seem just like to much of a feat right now. Plus, I did post an album on facebook of Kentucky anyway. I know most of us are probably already friends on there, and if not... don't be shy.... Im a good friend! You can send me a request here and we can read each other's blogs through there too!

Well, have a good get up and go kind of day all!