How One Stay-at-Home Mom Schedules Her Week

This post is from my sister - the proud mommy of a 9-month old baby boy! (Who’s one of the cutest boys around, by the way!

A little background on me: I am a new stay-at-home mom to my awesome baby boy, Andrew. I am also a bit of an organizational freak (it runs in the family) :). I am one of those people that needs lists and structure and order to my world in order for anything to actually get accomplished. As I know a lot of new moms do, I have really struggled to not only care for my baby (and my husband) but to also actually get something else done with my life. I had dreams of all the projects I would do around the house once I stopped working and stayed at home with my new baby. And dreams they have remained….

About 4 or 5 months ago I decided I needed some sort of weekly schedule set up as well as a running list of “to do’s” Continue reading…

Getting Rid of Junk!

We’re looking at building out a home office in our garage for my husband, since we have now filled ALL of our bedrooms with children. So, this past weekend, we worked on getting the garage cleaned out to get ready to build. Of course, it’s always fun finding all the CRAP that you’ve collected over the years and asking yourself, ‘Why in the world did we keep this?’. Continue reading…