The Sensible Mom

Today was a good day. I was able to get caught up on some of my emails, and I got my How To Make Homemade Deodorant video done. It’s uploading to YouTube as I write.

Overall, here’s how I did with the Day 9 Assignment:

:: Get dressed in something that makes you feel great. — I wore the same outfit you’ve seen in a previous post. You’ll notice it when I post the Homemade Deodorant video tomorrow. 🙂

:: Refer to your list of weekly goals, and make a list of no more than 5-7 specific things you want to accomplish today.

Here’s my Day 9 List:

:: Set the timer for 15 minutes and do a quick-clean of your bathroom. — I cleaned the hall bathroom, and while I was cleaning it, my 3 year-old snuck out of bed and went into my office and shut my laptop while my How To Make Homemade Deodorant video was uploading to YouTube. I ended up having to start the process over again…I just checked and it should be done uploading in 2 hours.

:: Clean your light switch plates. — Done, and I was happy to see this as one of the assignments for today. I can’t remember the last time I’ve cleaned the light switches.

One more day (Day 10), and I’ll be caught up!

I’m hoping to smush Day 10 and Day 11 together tomorrow.

Have you cleaned your light switches lately? Have you ever uploaded a video to YouTube? I’m doing mine in HD and uploading from iMovie, so I guess that’s why it takes forever…

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We enjoyed Thanksgiving at my house with my in-laws, and I purposely didn’t eat until it hurt this year. I ate until I was full, but then I stopped. I loved not having the oh-so-uncomfortable-I-ate-too-much feeling afterward. This is probably the first time I’ve ever attempted not to overeat at Thanksgiving. Ever. 🙂

I’m slowing catching up with the 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home {Simplified} series, and I’m hoping to be completely caught up by Monday. We’ll see.

Here’s how I did with the Day 8 Assignment:

:: Get dressed in something that makes you feel great. — Done, and I have to say again that I love feeling good about what I’m wearing. The encouragement to get dressed in something that I feel good in each day has been wonderful.

:: Refer to your list of weekly goals, and make a list of no more than 5-7 specific things you want to accomplish today. — Here’s what I wrote down on my Day 8 List:

After I publish this post, I’ll have everything done except for answering emails…I am always behind on answering emails.

:: Set the timer for 10 minutes and go through your messiest dresser drawer. Remove items you no longer love, need, and/or wear. Quickly organize the remaining items. — I ended up going through my 3 year-old son’s drawer, because my husband has been asking me to go through it and take out the things that David no longer needs or uses. The drawer was pretty messy and stuffed full of clothes, so I went through and took about a pile of things that could be removed and not missed.

David, our 3 year-old, is extremely particular about what he wears and what is on his shirt. At the moment, he’s fond of footballs, baseballs, and Angry Birds on his shirts. He was thrilled that we found one of his new favorite shirts (with a football on the front of it). Just one of the perks of organizing, I guess. 🙂

:: Wipe down all the door handles in your home. — This is something that needed to be done, and I’m glad to have it crossed off.

How was your Thanksgiving? Have you done any extra organizing over the long holiday weekend?

I’m having a pretty productive day today, even though my baby girl, Elisabeth, has a fever. 🙁

We thought it was odd that she had been taking strangely long naps for the past two days and suspected that something was up (she didn’t feel like she had a fever just yet), then it hit her full force last night.

I ended up being up with her from about 3:00am until 6:00am, when I turned her over to Ruben so that he could stay up with her while I got a little sleep. I knew that if I didn’t go back to bed, I wouldn’t be able to tackle all the cooking I wanted to get done today.

Elisabeth is still sick, but we are praying that this fever goes away soon. For some odd reason, out of all of our children, when she gets a fever, it stays with her for at least a week. I’m hoping that’s not the case for her this time. Poor baby!

Anyway, here’s how I did with the Day 7 Assignment:

:: Get dressed in something that makes you feel great. — I got dressed in my black capris and Escalate t-shirt, which I got from the Savvy blogging conference. I felt good wearing this outfit, but I didn’t get any pictures because I, um, didn’t straighten my hair or wear makeup today. After the rough night of being up with Elisabeth, I was happy to get the basics done this morning…shower, dressed, teeth brushed, contacts in, and hair combed and pulled back.

:: Create a list of weekly goals. — Here are my weekly goals, and I made a list of Day 7 goals.

:: Set the timer for 15 minutes and vacuum the main living areas of your home. — Okay…not that I don’t ever vacuum, but it’s not something I do on a regular basis. The reason being is that we’ve made vacuuming an everyday chore for our two oldest children, Nathan and Breanna. Our 3 year-old absolutely loves to vacuum, too, but he does it more for fun. 🙂

My two oldest children have to either vacuum or help with the laundry everyday (for allowance). Ruben normally does all the vacuuming for the rest of the house while I hold the baby.

*Update: I meant to post this the day before Thanksgiving, when I had almost all of it written, but life happened (which for us meant I was up until 2:00 am making mashed potatoes and apple pie).

Happy Thanksgiving!

I know I’ve gotten behind on posting updates for the 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home {Simplified} series, so while everyone else is taking this week off, I’m going to try to catch up.

Here’s how I did with the Day 6 Assignment:

:: Get dressed in something that makes you feel great. — I’ve enjoyed this reminder, and I’ve been making an effort to wear something each day that I feel good wearing. I’m straightening my hair more often and putting on makeup more regularly, too.

:: Create a list of weekly goals. — Here are my goals for this week. I also made a list of what I wanted to accomplish on Day 6.

:: Set the timer for 10 minutes and run through your home and quickly pick up everything that’s out of place and put it away. — I’ve been in clean-up mode as my in-laws visit.

:: Set the timer for 10 minutes and clean out the inside of your vehicle. — I will confess that this is something I didn’t do, because my husband always does it.

We are a one car family, and we try to keep the inside of our mini-van clean most of the time. When it does need to be cleaned out or vacuumed, my husband always does the job. He probably cleans it inside and out – at least once a month.

I’m thankful for the way he always stays on top of keeping our vehicle clean. I make the uncomfortable phone calls to our cell phone company, and he cleans the car. It works for us. 😉

 How is your week going?