Look what I found!

I needed a washable cover to fit this...


And I found this....

I love my Swiffer Wet Jet. It is so convenient for the laminate flooring and tile we have in much of our house! I hate how much the little pads cost though! I have been looking for a washable cover that doesn't wrap around the head because that covers the little sprayer. After wasting $8 on one that didn't fit, I found this one by Method. I tried it on there and it seems to fit well. It adheres to the Velcro. It is slightly longer than the swiffer but that's ok. I can't wait to try it and see how it cleans....too bad I just did all the floors last night :)

New Look for the New Year....for the Closet!

There is a walk-in closet in our 4th bedroom. It has become the junk closet. Everything was thrown in there. Mark uses it to store his Patrol uniforms and stuff. He gets dressed in there in the mornings. It also holds all of my craft/scrapbooking stuff. It was TERRIBLY disorganized! After Christmas it got so bad that you couldn't even walk in there. So, I took everything out....first time in 4 years it had been completely empty! Here are a few before pics....

Here is the closet EMPTY!!

I can't believe all this stuff was in that closet!! At this point I was regretting my decision to drag all of it out...I was thinking I would never get through it all.

Ahhh....Finally done! Everything has a home and a labeled home at that! We will see how long it lasts :) I hope we can keep it up!







I love my ribbons all organized and waiting to be on a package or card or in a scrapbook! And look, you can still see the wall....it's not covered with junk!

I even have room for a little desk space and a chair....Can't wait to use my new space to create. The best part is it is in the kids' playroom so i can put the gate in the doorway and be in the same room with them. Maybe I will actually get some scrapbooking done!

And look what else we did....A friend of my mom's GAVE us this playhouse! They had it in their basement and we decided it was to nice for the backyard. We moved things around in the playroom and made room. The kids LOVE it!!! Caroline asked us to get her a bed in her house. They will have so much fun in there!

Winter Mantle

After I took the Christmas decorations down, I decided to leave out the snowmen. I found this banner at Target in the dollar spot. It's not working though.....no significant snow this year yet :) Is that a stool on the couch? Yep! I just vacuumed and hadn't put everything back yet. Notice the time out chair in the corner :)

Sick boy!

Poor Grayson! Caroline woke up early Sat. morning with a slight fever but has been fine otherwise. She never did have a fever again, just a runny nose. Well poor Grayson boy woke up at 4 this AM with a fever. He just looks like he doesn't feel good. He has the runny nose too. Another missed church day :( Mark and I did get to go to a wonderful marriage conference yesterday though. It was really interesting and had lots of great ideas on communication and such. If you ever get a chance to go to hear Dr. Gary Chapman....GO!

Family Pictures

We took the kids to get their Birthday pictures done the other day. I am going to try and post a few to share. Not sure if I am "allowed" to post as they were taken by a National Studio but they gave us a CD and it doesn't have any instructions saying how we can use them so here goes... Enjoy!

Disney Storybook

Some of you may have already seen some of these pages. I love my Storybook Creator by Creative Memories. I did this Disney book a while back from 2006 when Caroline was 4 months old. My birthday wish is to order it in print. One of the things I love about digital scrapbooking is that you can essentially scrapbook for free. I have made the book and have it saved and can order it when we have the extra money. It's great, no need to spend the $ to buy the paper, stickers, album etc. Anyway this book is 12X12 and has 27 pages but here are just a few (hope I can figure out how to upload them, it is taking FOREVER! :). Enjoy!

We interrupt this Cleaning Binge.....

The kids are with Mamaw Lisa and Papaw Harold. Mark is working an overtime detail to pay for the too much money we spent on furniture and bedding for the kids' new combined room (more to come on that later). I am supposed to be cleaning. Well, I did get the tree down and thought I needed a break already, then I will really tackle this messy house...So on my little break, I decided to browse through some of my favorite blogs and you have to see what Saucy has n her blog. It is the cutest doll house things ever! It makes me want a new hobby!! Such talented people. Check it out...Now Back to your regularly scheduled cleaning...