Shovels And Rakes And Hoses, Oh My!

The kids and I got in trouble this morning. The kids have been using the snow shovels to shovel off the trampoline so they can jump on it when it's nice outside. Then they leave them all over the yard only to get burried the next time it snows. When Papa gets home and can't find his snow shovel he gets just a tiny bit upset! Yesterday I was outside with the kids helping them with the trampoline. The snow shovels are lost to us until the spring melt so we got out the garden shovels. Welllllll, we kind of forgot about them and left them out all night so we were all in big trouble this morning. Luckily we didn't get snow so they got put away nicely but we are under strict orders not to let it happen again. Considering the kids have already lost three shovels, I think we had better do what Daddy Says!

Once I was able to maintain my house I had to turn my attention to keeping the yard neat. Last summer I made a very big effort to keep all the gardening tools and hoses put away in the front yard. I didn't even try with the back yard and all the kids toys. It looks like I will be making an effort with both yards this year. Here we come back to things being easy to put away. Chris bought me a gardening wagon for Mother's Day. I keep my tools in it and pull them around the yard with me. Then I just pull it into the garage when I'm through with it. It couldn't be any simpler. Then, I have always had to drag the hose all the way across the yard to water my side garden. Last spring I talked Chris into installing a water facet on that side of the house. Using a short, coil hose, it was just as easy to put it away as to leave it strung out. Yay, one more little problem solved! All these little solutions really add up to making my life a lot easier. What little thing can you do around your house to make your life easier? Click on "Comment" below and tell me.