I love a list!

First off, I'm loving my weekly to do list! I also got back out Heaven at Home by Ginger Plowman and skimmed through the structuring your day/child's day and homekeeping chapters. Pretty convicting but for sure encouraged me to keep on the path of organization! I so recommend this book!

Some of my favorite points of structuring your day/home:

• Routine enables us to avoid idleness. Proverbs 31:27 says, "She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness." I sure didn't feel like I was being idle, but I can see now how having things on the list help me to check them off that day rather than save them for later -- later was turning into weeks/months later!
• Routine enables us to have more freedom. I put a few housekeeping tasks on there M, T, W, and F. This gives me H and the weekend "off" from housekeeping or to catch up on what I didn't get to.
• There was alsolso great encouragement in this chapter to keep a family calendar (stole Sarah's idea a while back and I keep this on the fridge always for Alex and I both to record stuff) and a constant grocery list.
  

I've added stuff each week to my print out, and I just have to crack up at all of the things I really love a reminder for -- do my CBS day, restock diaper bag, check e-mealz, etc. It's been a huge help keeping me on task. And as an extra treat, sometimes Alex checks it and does things still left to cross off! I've emailed it to several of you -- if you want a copy, just let me know. You'll need to download pea smashtastic to see/change the font. To add a font to your computer (don't know how to do this on a mac, sorry):

• Click download
  
• Click open folder when the open/save screen appears
• Close all open windows except for font one
  
• Drag the font icon in the open folder to your desktop
• Open your control panel
• Double click on fonts folder
• Drag font icon from your desktop to the fonts folder -- enjoy!

Now on to the pantry. This project took 5-6 days. Mainly because every time I look down, I see this:
Oh my molars, yes, I'll hold you, sweet boy! Last one year molar coming in! Tubes go in Monday morning!

I did a shelf at a time, and I had to keep going back to Target for more stacking baskets (found in kitchen section). Not exactly how I wanted to spend my Christmas/bday Target gift cards, but it's a huge improvement:
Not sure that it would make IHeart Organizing super impressed, but it's working much better for us. I made dot labels (to match to do list), printed them on cardstock, had them laminated (thanks Mom), wrote on them with a Vis-A-V (available at office/teacher stores), and stuck them onto the baskets with velcro squares. That way, I can write inventory on them, change them easily, etc. Works well for the way I coupon/stockpile.
And if you ever need sprinkles, we have sprinkles that filled up TWO medium stacking baskets. They were stuck everywhere!! :) Now I only have every other cabinet/closet/drawer in our house left on my list -- why did I not tackle these in my nesting phases of pregnancy!?