The Great Clean Out Archives - Stories of Our Boys

The Year of Getting Organized

2014-03-22 aprilmomoffour 4 kids, baby milestones, big family life, birthday, books, Caleb, Daniel, de-cluttering, decluttering, goals, little boys, nap, New Year's goals, organizing, pictures, rest, snow, The Great Clean Out, toddlers, toys

I’ve written gobs of blog posts where I’m really bad about never going back and letting you know how that all turned out. This is my goal for tonight: lots of updates!! Update #1: The Great Clean Out inspired by reading Money Saving Mom‘s book: It’s sort of an odd time to suddenly be all about organizing my house: we are moving in JUNE. However, we are drowning in TMS–too much stuff–so I have been plugging away at “The […]

The Fifth Family Day at Home: Chaos reigns.

2014-01-22 aprilmomoffour accomplishment, anemia, art, blog, de-cluttering, thank yous, The Great Clean Out

family drawing by Caleb Today is the fifth day straight that the kids have been out of school and the first day that Daddy has gone back to work. (We had the weekend + MLK Jr. Day + 2 snow days). I think we’re all starting to feel a little restless. Okay, a lot restless. I got so tired of the boys carrying on at lunch (during the baby’s nap) that I took everyone’s bowl away and banished them […]