Spring Cleaning...

Sorry for the two day lapse. Saturday night we had a long day with the hubs at work and we spent dinnertime with a friend who was in town. Yesterday ended up being a mass spring cleaning day. The hubs was inspired by one thing and it turned out being a huge overhaul of the apartment. It was great. We have tons of tubs. Living in apartments and moving often, we've acquired plastic tubs. Big ones, small ones, medium size ones. We pulled them all out (over half of them hold the kids smaller clothes, for when we need them again) and rearranged, consolidated, and purged. We also put together a bookshelf deal with doors that's been in its box on the floor for a week. We ended up with multiple empty tubs and an empty shelf. We were able to put it all away and have the house feel less cluttered and more organized. I did one last bit of it this morning with Moose and he was so excited to organize. He thinks it's the best.

So, an update on the big girl bed saga. It's getting better. We've had a few rough go downs, but all in all she's getting used to it. Although she woke up crying at 6:00 this morning and was basically awake from then on. Needless to say, she had an early and long nap.

As part of our cleaning, the school/craft area is extremely more organized. (That's what the new bookshelf deal was for.) I was feeling super inspired to rejuvenate Moose's school we do at home. So we had school today. We didn't really do anything new, but with things more organized it just felt better. He was super motivated too and did a ton of pages from one of his activity books, practicing writing the alphabet and numbers. It was great.

I'm trying to pick up my Christmas crafting, knowing that the holiday is going to spring up on me before I know it. I just finished Monkey's first project today, a dress-up skirt. It has jewel type things all over it, so it's a bit sparkly. I like it. Next is project #4, a camera case for Moose. (for his digital camera he got for his birthday.)

And a few days ago me and Moose made a Christmas paper chain from my Christmas scrapbooking papers and put it on their Charlie Brown tree in their bedroom. It's not long enough to really go around the tree more than once, but it still looks great. It's currently decorating the bottom half of the tree. Sometime during the rest of the week we're going to make a popcorn chain, and paint a few styrofoam balls. Perhaps even toss some glitter on them. :)

Monkey's already broken one Christmas ornament. Luckily, it was fixable. :) Hopefully the rest of the ornament will survive the Christmas season.