Muffin Tin Monday

Today's Muffin Tin:

Clockwise from top: Strawberries, carrots, quinoa garden pagoda pasta, sippy cup (water), dragon's tongue green beans (from the garden), oatie date balls

She loved this meal, especially my accidental oatie date balls (more on those tomorrow). She also loved that balloon, it didn't leave her hand through lunch (or after lunch for that matter). I had to convince her to say goodnight to it and leave it downstairs before we headed up for bed.

Where'd you go?

My motivation. Have you seen it?

Anyone ever feel like they're lacking motivation? (You can't see me, but my hand's raised. Really high.) For the past few weeks I've just been slugging along (and nope, not preggo). Lack motivation to blog, motivation to clean, motivation to run around. I still do all those things, I've just lost. my. motooooo....you get the point.

So, I've decided to become more organized! After reading about Jessica's system at Our Family for His Glory, I decided I needed a system, too! I tend to get overwhelmed all at once and then try to clean my house all in one day! Then I get sidetracked by something and end up missing tons of chores. So, organization...Here I come! I, like Jessica, need to break things in to days so that things are done daily and then deep cleaned every few months. Obviously some things get done every day (sweeping the kitchen, dishes, wiping out the sink, etc), but the bulk of it just needs a set day. That way I don't have laundry coming out my ears with the floor needing to be vacuumed and dust starting to pile up. Here's what I decided and if all goes well, I'll update you on my progress. This may not go smoothly this week since we leave on Wednesday for a wedding in New Orleans and I did a lot of cleaning today (hence this epiphany I'm having). And why yes, I am a little bit anal about having a clean house.

Mondays: Bathrooms, Laundry (towels/bedding)

Tuesdays: Deep cleaning of one room

Wednesdays: Mop kitchen floors, clean porch

Thursdays: Dust, clean windows

Fridays: Vacuum, stainless steel wipe down

Saturdays: Laundry (clothes)

Sundays: Day of rest!

Diaper laundry gets done every 2 or 3 days so it gets in there, too. Picking up gets done EVERY day and since the Farmer takes care of the trash, it's not on the list. I'm really looking forward to this!

Do you have a system? How do you make it work!?

Thanks, Jessica for the great ideas and inspiration!

Recycler in Training

About 2 months ago, we taught Sweet P to throw away her dirty diapers. Now, this task doesn't happen often since we now cloth diaper almost exclusively, but every now and again she'll be in a disposable for one reason or another (current reason: sad, sad diaper rash from something she ate and needed to use some major diaper cream). So after she learned about the trash, we started asking her to throw other things away. She'll throw away dryer sheets while I fold towels or pieces of string she finds or other things that don't recycle. So far, she only throws things away when we ask her to.

A few weeks ago, we started asking her to "recycle" things. Because the kid LOVES the recycle bins we have in the kitchen (they are just her height). So she started recycling paper, tags from new clothes (thanks to Gammie), raisin boxes, plastic containers...ya know, the usual. Well, she's never recycled something unprompted. Until today.

I wasn't home to witness our baby reducing her carbon footprint, but the Farmer said "She recycled her raisin box tonight."

Me: "Did you tell her to?"

Him: "Nope. She just brought it over and put it in the bin. She took it back out again, played with it, looked for more raisins, took it into the living room and then decided she was really done with it and dropped it back in the bin."

So there ya have it. Teach them young, I tell ya, teach them young.