Mama Says

Here's my happy cupboard...I love putting things in jars of different sizes and types...and yes, that is *candy* in jars on the top shelf! Gummy bears and jelly beans. They are my current bribe tools and rewards for keeping Josiah on task and motivated in learning how to read. He read 3 BOB books today, and sounded things out in his head!!! Milestone...he got a gummy bear or jelly bean for each book he read. =)

Here's another happy spot for me...this is on the top of my dresser. I spent the first day of Josiah's Spring Break organizing and deep cleaning our bedroom. It was pretty bad...dusty and cluttered.
I spent all day, enlisting the kids' help in vacuuming behind the bedside tables, bed, and dresser, and organizing the closets. We even flipped the mattress! Brent said he wished the room were a bit bigger so that we could put a chair in there to relax! Now, just to maintain this uncluttered and peaceful zone...

One of my favorite grown-up activities is to read organizing books that are mostly pictures and ideas.  One of those ideas was to find original little containers to put into your medicine cabinet to store your goodies. Here I used baby food jars, smaller mason jars, and a colored glass piece for dirt cheap from the trinket section of the local Goodwill.  I wish the pictures were higher quality and a bit more artistic, but hey...we're thankful for what we have! ;)

Whoa...it has been too long...I owe an update.
Here's just a free flow from what's going through my head.
Life has been hard...circumstantially...and just trying to figure out how to homeschool and get other stuff done...and raise 3 kids with a happy heart. Not an easy task.
Right now I've got Spring on the brain...longing for warm weather and sunny skies to go out and tend the garden, open up the windows, let the kids come and go through the open back door, eat at the picnic table in the backyard.
I've also got worms on the brain...going through another vermicomposting phase...
Found out about this new magazine that looks really cool called "The New Pioneer"...
Going through a purging phase again...finding glass jars and creative storage containers from Goodwill to organize our stuff...someday I'll take a picture of my pantry shelf with all the jars. It's my favorite thing to organize.
I have a jar of dandelions in water sitting next to me on the desk...I love it when the kids pick them...except they die like the same day and look really sad.
Well, I didn't get very far before the kids are melting down and need attention, but there's a tast