Take it On Tuesday!

This past week was so relaxing, but not really. Only kinda. Mostly because I finally conquered the massive piles of laundry. The downside of actually putting it away is the fact that I now have to go upstairs to get clothes for the kids. The upside of it, is that in combination with my ankle weights, the stairs are giving my legs a major workout.

Which leads me to my latest project for the week…finding a way to work out every day. The kids usually get a pretty tight grip on the Wii Fit and there is little time to fit mom in to the activities. I just have to remember to strap on my ankle weights every morning and I think that is a pretty good start to working out every day.

In last weeks post I mentioned how I had it in my head to start moving furniture around the house. I decided to move the kids playroom across the house. The kids helped me carry the furniture back and forth, and they now have a new playroom in the addition. Then I had them help me move all of their toys from old playroom, and most of them from the living room to the back of the house. We spent years working on the addition and since we opened up the back of the house in June, we have still been trying to figure out the best way to use the space. After spending the past month organizing the house, things are finally starting to fall into place.

So instead of cleaning out my new studio, I moved furniture around.

The pantry and kitchen are pretty much cleaned out and organized. Right now I am trying to find time to lay down some flooring in a closet in the back of the house, once that is done I will be able to finish cleaning out the pantry. I think Little Nut Nut is going to be upset when the closet is finished, he was playing in there earlier today, and calls it his office. If I am not careful I am going to lose my new closet to a 4 year old who needs an office.

We got our Christmas tree up over the weekend, and by up I mean that it is now out of the box, and standing upright. It does have 2 strands of lights on it, so I am calling it a success! The kids have already memorized how many days are left until Christmas, and spend the day telling me over and over how many days there are until Christmas. There are 25 in case you are wondering.

I have a huge pile of bags ready to go out to the Salvation Army – yes, there are more because apparently we have way more stuff than we need.

Since I am still recovering from the Thanksgiving weekend, my week will start tomorrow. It took the past two days to get the kids back on track with their homeschool. They were actually happy to get back to school, I was having a hard time concentrating though and every time I started to read to the kids I started to fall asleep. I keep waiting for one of the kids to slam their hand down on my desk to wake me up. In the past I have fallen asleep doing homework with the kids, it has been awhile though. I am doubling up on the caffeine this week!

I have to get my butt in gear, and get my studio cleaned up! I haven’t gotten anything listed on Etsy since last week, I took tons of photos, but still haven’t gotten them listed. I think I need to forget the rest of the house, and spend the week in my studio.

Oh, and finish putting up the tree.