. . .a catcher. . .

a catcher-upper that is!  It's always so hard catching up.  I get very task oriented and that doesn't always work so well when there's this little person who thinks I should be playing with and entertaining her all the day long.  It's much easier when Eddy is home because just having someone sitting on the floor and playing is better than mommy trying to get stuff done.  I try to have all my "chores" done during the week so that we can relax on Saturdays but some "catching up" might just have to happen tomorrow when Helper has some Distraction;-)

Today I'm linking up with the Coffee Girls!  I'll be sipping my cuppa tea and getting to know some of the girls throughout the day.  Wouldn't that be nice?  Probably just a few minutes during nap time but I'll still enjoy the time browsing;-)

Yesterday I was having computer problems and didn't a post loaded from the Lemon Task which was to organize the command center of the home.  Well, this one for me is fairly easy since hubby takes care of all bills, papers, mail, and whatever else comes in.  My biggest job is keeping all of "that" stuff in his area.  Now, I've tried and tried many times to organize his command center and have bought bins of all sorts, file organizers, bill payer files, etc., etc. but none of that works for his "system."  I have learned to let him have his spot and do it his way; I just insist that this bill paying not take over the house.  It has ways of doing that.  At first it's just a corner of the table, and then half the table, and then all the table, and then the kitchen counter, sometimes stuff even ends up in the bathrooms--what?!?!?!  So over the weekend papers started taking over the table. . .to be fair. . .that's my stuff to the left of the flowers. . .to the right is "bill paying" stuff:

 after:  unfortunately I didn't get a picture when the table was empty.  Eddy & Gramma used the empty space for a Bakugan battle after dinner.

Off to get busy on today's to do list!  Did you know that it's National Hugging Day?  It is so get those hugs going;-)

It's National Clean Off Your Desk Day!!!!!

It's National Clean Off Your Desk Day but if you've been following A Bowl Full of Lemons or Home Sanctuary your desk was doubly cleaned off last week!

Here's to getting & staying organized!

It's Positively Penguin Day!

Happy Positively Penguin Day!!!!!!!

It's Bubble Bath Day!!!!

Hey Everyone,

It's Bubble Bath Day!!!!  I almost forgot!!!  Time to play games and get the kiddos in a big bubbly bath!!!

It's Bean Day!

Who knew I had so many beans?  I have some beans, obviously, hamburger, cheese, and potatoes, hmmm, what will dinner be tonight?

I could go look through my Pioneer Woman cookbook and find something--better do that with a cup of coffee!  or there's a black-eyed peas recipe at the Pioneer Woman's Tasty Kitchen but peas are not beans!  I'm off to find a wonderful recipe or two. . .

day 4

 and I'm so tired.  I can hear the quiet snoring and sleeping sounds of the little ones and can't wait to join them!  I knew Tuesdays would be hard for this organizational challenge but am determined to stay on track.  I go in with my husband to his school on Tuesdays to teach three Bible classes.  I love being with the kids and our Bible curriculum this year BUT it is a challenge to focus on teaching with a 11 month old on the loose.  Fortunately now our room is the church nursery so she has things to occupy herself except that all the classes cooincide with naptimes so she is happy for a while and then the fun begins.  Today I also needed to bake a cake for Tuesday treats at school because we didn't have any eggs in the house yesterday.  So in bed last night around 11:30 p.m., up three times to feed baby, awake at 5:45 to get ready for day, at school till just about 6 p.m., stop at library, home about 6:40, throw little ones in the bath, hubby finished up dinner (chicken was in the crockpot, thankfully), play Fluxx while eating dinner, little ones down for bed at 8:15, fight with internet to find out today's challenges, do challenges, take pictures, and blog. 

Thankfully today's LEMON challenge was easy for me.  Clean out the Tupperware cupboard.  This cupboard drives me crazy anyway so I try to keep it pretty cleaned out.  Before pictures:

Just took some straightening and stacking and throwing out of some lonely lids and wah-lah!

All done!  Now you can see our beautiful wallpaper behind the cupboards. . .hmmm never noticed that before. . .

The Home Sanctuary challenge was to check out a previous post about missions or something that starts with an M that has to do with doing a 5 minute room pick up.  I did that.  The blog gives a detailed description about what to do and how to do it--perfect if you need some direction. 

Uh, I'm quickly losing my mind--thinking ability and so will leave you with this useless bit of trivia about myself since today is Trivia Day.  I received a new nickname today and it happened like this:

I stopped by our pastor's house today to return a bowl that Mrs. pastor had sent over full of soup.  I rang the doorbell and listened for the sound of children's voices--there are four of them.  The kids came all excited and opened the door followed by Mrs. Pastor who was talking on the phone.  She looked at me while saying to her phone pal, "Oh, there's a Ding Dong at my door." 

"Hello," I said back;-)

Grab a straw. . .

. . .it's Drinking Straw Day!

Have fun!

chocolate Monday

chocolate covered cherries, that is!  It's National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day!  Enjoy!

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**two of my other favorites are:
Drinking Straw Day
J.R.R. Tolkien Day--We will talk about Tolkien today and then load up on Tolkien books & movies on Library day!