Venturing Off the Couch Every Now and Then

I love snuggling up with my laptop and my new blogging companion!

I've been trying to write more about teaching babies to sleep but it's proving to be too difficult for my postpartum brain today so I will have to work on it later.

We spent a couple hours organizing our unfinished basement this afternoon. And by "we" I mean that I sat on a chair and told everyone else what to do. Stranger put together some new shelves a couple months ago for all our valuable junk that we don't use so it needed to be put away on the shelves. I have plans to go through all of it and get rid of at least half of it but for now we can finally see the floor! We have a slide down there and the kids drug the tumbling mat down also. It will be a nice cool place for them to play this summer when it's too hot to go outside.

I also did little straightening in my laundry room this week. Just about every corner of my house has piles of clutter and it's finally time to get it organized. One pile a day is about all I can handle.

Doesn't that look better? It's not a pretty laundry room but at least it's organized. For some reason pretty laundry rooms are not high on my priority list at the moment. The large container is for outgrown or unused clothes to go in and the small one is for socks that are waiting for their mates to come through the wash.

P.S. My sister gave me a great idea once upon a time, to use the old and mateless socks for camping and outdoor activities. Then when you come home you just throw the dirty things away. Love that!