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Have you ever thought of getting the small suction cup hooks for windows and taking out your favorite cookie cutters and hanging them as sun catchers in your kitchen window?
window and they look so much tidier.
It is hard to see them as they blend into the outside, but if you look closely enough you will see 2 white snowflakes hanging up to the left with 2 blue snowflakes hanging beside them to the right. Then there is one lonely snowflake onto top of the window where you unlock them.
and by understanding it is established;
by knowledge the rooms are filled
with all precious and pleasant riches.
Free Kitchen Decorating Ideas
How many of you have cookie cutters but only take them out at the prospect of baking cookies?
Have you ever thought of getting the small suction cup hooks for windows and taking out your favorite cookie cutters and hanging them as sun catchers in your kitchen window?
Duck did that with my randomly placed snowflake cookie cutters and it looks really neat. I had them originally on my window sill, but Duck put them in the window and they look so much tidier.
window and they look so much tidier.
You can do it any time of the year, special occasions such as your kids birthdays or holidays, or just for every day purposes.
| It is hard to see them as they blend into the outside, but if you look closely enough you will see 2 white snowflakes hanging up to the left with 2 blue snowflakes hanging beside them to the right. Then there is one lonely snowflake onto top of the window where you unlock them. |
If you are feeling a bit snow bound or if you're beginning to have cabin fever, try some simple home decorating tips with unexpected stuff just laying around your house and it will help to make you feel a bit better.
When we as moms and wives we invest into our homes the love to make our houses homes, then God richly blesses us with the needs of our hearts. If that means a simple pick me up, God will provide it.
Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
by knowledge the rooms are filled
with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 24:3-4 (NKJV)
Take the time to think outside of the box, invest a wee bit of time to make your house a home today for your husband to come home to. If you have candles or oil, consider starting them as aromatherapy is a wonderful cure to the home bound blues. It will also be wonderful for your husband to come home to as well. If you don't have candles consider baking something. The aroma of freshly baked goodies is equally wonderful to the aroma of candles. I fall weak to the smell of bakeries. Maybe that is why I favor baking over cooking. Just choose what makes you and your family happy and strive to make that your means of encouragement to both you and your family today.
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Getting Organized and Energized!! | Time-Warp Wife - Empowering Wives to Joyfully Serve
This is an inspiring article. You need to check it out if you feel disorganized and tired. This will give you motivation and encouragement.
Homeschool Organization
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| Getting your homeschool organized | TheHomeSchoolMom.com |
Homeschool Organization
Homeschooling can challenge the
scheduling skills of even the most organized moms. How can you keep different
ages and abilities scheduled with academic work, field trips, extracurricular
activities, and the usual other appointments that life requires? The best way is
by having a vision that it can be done and by working with your own personality.
If you are a person who abhors schedules, don't try to implement something that
will detail your life down to five minute intervals. If you cannot stand to do
without your schedules and lists, then a PDA is more likely to suit you than
winging it. Read more: http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/gettingorganized/#ixzz20JmWMVXh
Getting your homeschool organized | TheHomeSchoolMom.com
Do you ever feel this way too, " I've had many requests to continue posting on my decluttering journey. If it weren't for the help of Andrew Neary, I'd be truly lost. Initially I was guided to him by Peter Walsh. Peter has a great new app that I loaded which gave me kind of a quick course on how to declutter before Andrew came in. I'd...Read more"
A great friend of mine has embarked on a journey of decluttering her home and I am following along with her to support this goal of hers and also grabbing some great ideas to regain the organization I once had in my own home and life. Would you like to join me in supporting her in addition to learning what it takes to declutter our homes and bring back that sense of organization again?
If you answered yes, then click the above link which will take you to her website and together we can support her in her quest for order and freedom from the clutter that fills our spiritual and physical spaces.
The Organized Homeschool – 5 Tips for Staying Organized
Having an organized homeschool routine and supplies will make your program more efficient. You will spend less time scrambling and more time teaching.A Humble Clipboard
A simple clipboard has been a major organizational tool I have used for years. Each child has their own clipboard. We use different colored plexiglass for all students which allows them to locate their clipboard from across the room. Their academic schedule for the week is on the top of their clipboard. Their unfinished school work is on their clipboard. Their schedules for sports, scouts, or other extra-curricular activities are on their clipboard. There are no loose papers to lose, and kids begin learning time management in elementary school.
Writing Supplies
This seems so obvious to be trite, but organizing your writing utensils can be helpful. Consider finding a place for your pencil sharpener near an electrical outlet (if its electric) AND a trashcan. We have one pencil jar for pencils, one for pens, one for markers/highlighters, and one for colored pencils. One person has the chore of sharpening the pencils and emptying the sharpener tray every week. Nicely sharpened pencils are positioned point up. When a pencil led is dull or broken, the pencil is placed point down until the day of sharpening arrives. Other office supplies are also strategically placed in convenient locations around the house.
Set Up Your Homeschool Headquarters
You need an area of your home which is your homeschool HQ. That does not mean you need to do all the work there; in fact it may be better not to. However, it will be helpful to have one area designated for keeping your books and supplies.
The motto "A place for everything and everything in its place" is particularly important for homeschool - at least when the school work is done. You should choose an area that will be both aesthetic and convenient. If you find the kids leave their books on your kitchen table that is not convenient. The end-tables in the living room might be convenient, but they likely aren't aesthetic.
Some families have an area with bookshelves where all supplies are stored when not in use. Other families find it works better to have the books kept in each students' room.
The Tot's Spot
For younger children, a specially organized area can be an asset. Have puzzles, books, art supplies and activities that are reserved for use during homeschool hours. Even a toddler placed in a high chair can be given some "school work" appropriate for his little fingers for a short period of time. A flexible plan of toddler and infant activities helps to keep the academic clock ticking effectively.
Grading Older Students' Work
In the early years of education, evaluation will be almost immediate. However, as students mature, they may go hours and even days without having their work corrected. All work to be graded should be left in a designated place. That might be the clipboard or a file cabinet or other location. One teenager acquired a wallbox from a local office supply to hang outside her bedroom door just for completed assignments. That way her work would be accessible for grading at anytime, but allowed her the privacy of her bedroom.
In addition to having a place for completed work, it also helps to have a schedule for correcting, grading, and providing one-on-one feedback.
Discover other organizational tips, and share your own, at Kid Friendly Homeschool Curriculum.
Post-Holiday Debriefing: Get Organized for Next Christmas
Wild and woolly or sane and sedate, we've passed through the holiday season and into a new year. Breath caught, it's time to debrief.
You know debriefing, right? The astronauts do it, spies do it, pilots do it: a measured after-the fact evaluation of the mission or flight.
Smart holiday planners should do it, too--because taking time now to note what worked, what didn't will be a road map to a more organized Christmas next year. Here's how:
Find a quiet spot sometime within the next week. Play that new educational video for the kiddies, and pour a hot cup of tea. Grab your Christmas notebook and a copy of our debriefing worksheet to record your ruminations.
Then address these questions:
1. What worked this holiday season?
Start with your strengths--it'll give you the motivation to tackle your weaknesses. Large or small, list the things that went right this year.
Was this the first year your family broke away from Christmas-at-Grandma's (complete with cranky kidlets and a 6-hour drive on icy road)--and you loved it, intergenerational flak notwithstanding? Did you buy a new gift wrap organizer that made wrapping a breeze? Was your freezer stocked with easy-prep meals, making the evening crush much calmer?
Whatever worked for you, write it down. It'll remind you of what went right when next year's holiday madness approaches.
2. What was the worst aspect of holiday prep this year? How can you avoid the trap in the future?
Were you wrapping gifts at 3 a.m.? Baking while watching the 11 p.m. news? Were the ornaments buried in a dark attic, or were they all but destroyed by a lousy packing job?
Pick the worst element of your holiday planning, and decide how to lick the problem next year. Write it down for future reference.
3. Were you satisfied with your level of giving? What did you give: time, money, self, talents? Did you include your children in giving?
Perhaps it's having lived with a Rocket Scientist child with an infallible Do-As-I-Say detector, but I don't think it's possible to teach children about giving if it doesn't start with you. All that women's magazine nicey-nice tradition stuff won't dent those little psyches unless you are on board--so were you?
Think about bringing some of that Christmas spirit into the other eleven months of the year. Evaluate your level and kind of giving, and make notes
4. How well did your household run this holiday season? Were you calm and cozy or stressed and strung out? What one improvement could you make in your planning for next year?
Whether it's wardrobe or food prep, shopping or storage, zero in on your holiday systems, and look for ways to improve. Write 'em down.
5. Honesty time. How did your holiday go? Not the children, not the spouse, not the extended family members or the church or the shelter--you.
Yes, you. Did you experience the expectancy, the magic, the sparkle of this season?
Great holiday? Write down the grace notes that got you in the ho-ho-holiday mood and kept you there. Did you play more Christmas music or spend special time with each loved one? Remind yourself--and write it down.
Nobody wants to admit it out loud, but many of us felt a little bit flat at one time or another this year. Spare a thought to the reasons--because they'll point the way to needed changes next year.
Were you worn out from all the brou-ha-ha-ha? Too many parties, with an overload of that jolly old depressant, Demon Alcohol? Groaning under the load of Christmas Tradition--and shouldering that burden alone?
Home managers deserve a holiday, too! If the season got to you this year, figure out one or two things to do differently. Perhaps you'll ask the family for help, or pare down outgrown traditions. Maybe you'll plan to make quiet, reflective time a priority during these hectic weeks. Record your conclusions.
For home managers, the holiday season represents a hefty amount of time, energy and money, and we deserve to treat that expenditure seriously. Yes, we love the holidays. Yes, we enjoy most of the tasks necessary to bring them to birth, but don't let sentiment blind you to the real work involved. Like all work, this too has dignity, and deserves efficiency and respect.
Don't let this holiday season slip into the photo album until you've made a record of the triumphs and the trying times. Slip into something comfortable, put on a pot of tea, and think like an astronaut.
Finished? Take your written record and file it in the Christmas planner. Next year, it'll be the first reminder you see--and will be your guide to a more organized, more joyous holiday season.
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