★ 30-Day Organize-athon | Day 25

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★ 30-Day Organize-athon | Day 24

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Well it is Easter Sunday and what a day it has been
Jalan comes in early to wake us up and let us know it is Easter
Oh boy the Easter Bunny hadn't been yet and she was a bit disappointed but figured it gave her more time to do craft  Truth was mummy was so exhausted last night that she didnt set it up after Jalan had gone to bed

Luckily enough we are looking after the neighbours chooks so Darren and Jalan head over to feed the chooks and Megan and I rush around the house putting out little eggs everywhere and her easter presents out and pouring baby powder on the floor and trying to make bunny prints  This we found is a bit harder than it looks

Jalan comes back and the look on her face was priceless She started following footsteps and asking questions and picking up easter eggs  She was so excited 

After she had collected all her eggs and presents we did more craft and put the Roast pork on for lunch as Nana and Pa were coming over

We finished the decorations just in time for them to get here
As we are teaching Jalan both sides of the story we have been doing craft from the bible as well   When i put the cross in its pot i asked Jalan who was crucified on the cross  Her reply  "The Easter Bunny"   Ok i think we have had enough learning for one Easter  She got confused about it all

We had a lovely lunch and a yummy dessert made by Rowan then Nana and Pa went home to get ready for their next stop at Pa's sons place for dinner

Cleaned up with the kids digging into the easter chocolate and rabbits 

4:30 the phone rang and it was a friend seeing if they could bring their son over for a play date for a while and some sanity for them   I said yep come on over and then went to drop Megan of for her shift at work  Did a bit of shopping and scored some fantastic bargains for morning tea for the next few weeks with Jam donuts and lamingtons (no not for me) we put them in the freezer in separate bags and then one can be taken out and defrosted at a time so that no one just eats them for the sake of eating

Talked my friends into staying for dinner and we had a lovely meal of chicken and salad and some fantastic company

Finally time to relax so i turn my computer on and todays task is

Organize Your Bedside Area  

Oh the cruelty of it all  as my bedside area is totally trashed at the moment and i am totally exhausted but i have the one advantage tonight  We are in Australia and get our tasks at night  so this one I am leaving til morning so that I can not only complete the five minutes but actually clean my whole room and air it all out and make it actually look like a bedroom again rather than a junk room  

The room itself is not bad but with doing a lot of craft over the last week or so it has been severely neglected and when looking for stuff i need I have just trashed everything and havent put my clothes out to be washed My magazine holder was needed for a pattern for a craft we are tackling soon so the magazines got dumped onto the floor and other bits and pieces have migrated there as well 

So until morning it is staying messy/trashed and i am going to say good night  but at least i am once again caught up apart from adding the pictures to my blogs  

Night all 

Luv Deb

 

★ 30-Day Organize-athon | Day 23

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Easter Saturday

Darrens mum comes out early and hands us the new spark plug leads and when we asked how much she said "Easter present Happy Easter"

The MOTH heads out to change the spark plugs and the leads  I head out after  i have done a few things in the house and caught up on some facebook games and sit in the back of the car to watch
While sitting there i realise just how much crap and junk and Jalans clothes are in the car and start cleaning out the back seat of the car   Take Jalans storage bag down to bring inside and wash and fix up the side that has ripped 

Get a bag of rubbish out of the car which makes me feel better and find a few items of Jalans that have been missing including 3 jumpers 2 pairs track suit pants 4 t shirts and 2 pairs of shoes 4 hats and a lot of half eaten unidentifiable bits of food  Realise that at some stage the mouse has chewed up paper behind Jalans seat   Is it any wonder it lives in the car with her left overs It has a veritable feast there

I worry it may tell its friends and then we will really be in trouble
Tidy up the rest of the stuff that lives in the car

Darren finishes the leads and puts the car back together again and starts it
It starts first go and Darren is so excited that it actually worked  I wish he had more confidence in himself with things like this  

He then takes it for a quick drive but sadly it STILL has not fixed the problem of very rough idling and stalling while waiting at traffic lights and in traffic but at least the car is no longer shuddering and starts better now
Back to the drawing board to find out the next cause of our intermitant problem

We leave Jalan with Rowan and go out and do the last of the Easter shopping and other things we need to do  Such bliss without Jalan with us

Potter around til it is time to pick up Megan at 5pm  Darren goes and also retrieves Rowans laptop cable from his mates place  I stay home with Jalan and we make chocolates from the mould i have brought this morning

She has fun with me melting the chocolate then her spooning it in to the moulds We put it in the fridge to set then she eats the leftover chocolate out of the jug

I then head over to see what todays task is and find out i have won the prize for the week With my prize i won tonight the first one will become easier as well as i will have a manual telling me what to do

I feel so awesome it is fantastic i have actually won a prize

Thank you Michelle for choosing me

Then i head over to the task area and 


Todays task is

Organize Your Goals   

I sit and ponder this for a while then remember the mantra "Move fast. Don’t overthink. Let it go!"   

This makes it easier and i just start writing/Typing the first things that come into my head 

Here is what i came up with 

This for me is one of the hardest tasks as there is so much i want to do and have always found it hard but these tasks each day have given me a push in the right direction

1. Get my house and life fully decluttered and organised
2. Lose weight
3. Become Healthier
4. Become a housewife rather than a slob
5. Do more Simple savings things to save money
6. Menu Plan
7. More Family Time
8. Fund Raise for CF
9. Raise awareness of CF
10. Get Stress out of my life

 I put 3 here instead of one as together they will help me achieve what i want to They in a way go hand in hand as the more weight i lose the more active and more energy i will have and the more i will get motivated to do more than just sit on facebook lol

1. Get my house and life fully decluttered and organised
2. Lose weight
6. Menu Plan
Go for walks Use the treadmill and Air Walker each day
Clean and declutter house so that the exercise equipment fit easy
Declutter my life of people who bring me down
Menu plan so that i dont eat anything i am not supposed too
Clean out the Van and get rid of it ALL NOW
Clean out the shed so that it can be used for its proper purpose
Drop more stuff at Queenies to get rid of it
Get the computer/craft.home office totally organised and my sewing cabinet finished so that everything has its place and must be in its place

So now i just have to commit to my goals and make use of it all


Luv Deb

★ 30-Day Organize-athon | Day 22

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Happy Good Friday 

Well it is

Declutter Your Bag   

Lately  i have taken to carrying my wallet instead of my handbag due to sore shoulders and back  It is so easy to slip my small wallet into my back pocket of my jeans or pedal pushers and just go unless we have to go to the chemist then i need my handbag    My handbag is also a backpack style so that i don't have to carry it on one shoulder 

Usually it is so full of what we need that at the end of the day my back and shoulders are aching because of it  

To declutter my handbag means taking everything out of it and then trying to decide what goes back into it  Then we go out and i find that something i need is no longer in my handbag as it has been put back where it actually belongs 

My handbag has 4 sections  The main section is for my purse mobile and my day to day things 

The second section is for prescriptions and as i have a child with Cystic Fibrosis i have a lot of prescriptions  Anything up to 20 at a time Then comes my prescriptions usually 6 at a time  Also in this section is anything to do with paperwork for CF 

The third section is a much smaller section for misc stuff that i might need 

The fourth section is for medical needs like Jalans creons  My ventolin puffer Jalans spare ventolin puffer painkillers band aids and a few other things 

Using my wallet in my jeans has pretty much taught me that i dont need as much as i carry in my handbag but that is only when we are close to home and not down in Brisbane at the hospital  

But in my 5 minutes i took the opportunity to take out all the old receipts and dockets and auto teller slips  That in itself took nearly a kilo of weight out of my handbag   One day i will file all these on a stake and eventually post them to someone else just so they see we do not need so much paper 

 Today is Good Friday and apart from not eating meat we really did not do much at all today we used it as a down day to watch a few movies and just literally chill

Luv Deb

 

★ 30-Day Organize-athon | Day 21

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Today we had a easter party for Jalans at a friends place  Woohooo some one else to do craft with her again
We were even actually on time which is unusual for us lately

Arrived at Ronnies place to a hoard of kids all eager to play and party  Jalan decided to be shy and not talk to anyone and hid between mine and the MOTH's legs until we introduced her to another shy child and then she realised ohhhh lots of kids to play with

They then got called inside to make a chicken for their easter egg hunt 
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They put their chicks on the verandah to dry and came in for a snack  and another play


They then did another craft making a box to take home their easter present for whoever they wanted to give it to  I was the lucky recipient of Jalans
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Another snack and drink time while waiting for their box to dry

Next craft was making easter eggs out of milk arrowroot biscuits while the Easter Bunny (Ronnie) went out the back to drop the eggs for the hunt 

Then off to grab their cups and headed out to the back yard where the dog had conveniently eaten the easter bunny  (it was actually a football that the dog had ripped apart but it was fun scaring the kids and seeing their faces) 
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They had a ball looking for the eggs and collecting them in their cups  It is amazing how they will just walk straight past what is in front of them

Then the mummies went on a hunt making sure they had gotten all the eggs so that when the dog was let back outside he would not find eggs and eat them

Headed back inside to box up their gifts and make it look pretty to take home
Had another snack then some people left and some stayed to play a little longer
Thank you Ronnie for a awesome morning

We then headed into town and had a counter meal at the Burke and Wills Hotel and then headed of to Picnic Point for afternoon tea and more easter fun and egg swapping with Darrens sister Megan and her 2 children  and nana and a Pa as Megan was taking her kids away for easter
The first year we stay home she goes away for easter 

Headed home to do todays challenge of

Organize Your Pantry    

How evil  could you get after a long tiring day  Did 5 minutes of this challenge and realised it was not a 5 minute job at all  It is another all day challenge lol

But it did inspire me to go out and get some more small wire storage things to actually start organising it properly  

As you can see by the pics there is a lot of work to do but it will be a challenge in itself to get it how i want it  

I have seen the pictures of how i want it and will not rest fully until it looks like it  Here is the pantry I want  and yes it is my exact pantry shape so it is fully achievable 

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Luv Deb

 

★ 30-Day Organize-athon | Day 20

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Another craft day for Jalan in town
This time Darren stayed home  First we went to Ronnies place to pick up some candles i had brought of her for craft for Jalan We are planning on melting them down and making new candles

Came across the most awesome craft that looks fun and easy that we want to try
You cut or break the top of a egg of  Break the shell a bit around the top edge so it looks jagged
Take some white wax and pour it into the egg shell and let it partially set
Using a melon baller scoop out a section of wax 
Take a skewer and stick it through the white wax in the middle then put a wick that has been dipped in wax in the hole you have made
Use yellow melted wax next and pour it into the hole you have made and let set

Use on the table as a decoration  It looks like a boiled egg cracked open 
When lit it looks like a raw egg

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Todays task was

Organize Your Fridge    

Looked in the fridge and groaned, Luckily enough  a lot of this had been done previously when we were doing the communication centre  Well the bottom shelves anyway 

Threw out anything that was dead or dying which included 2 half containers of sour cream, some dead furry growing things (i think at some stage they may have been carrots or cucumbers though not really sure)  3 containers of unknown origin and a couple of bits and pieces of dried dead unidentifiable food stuffs 

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Restacked everything that was in there nice and neat and thought this is a full day clean out for my fridge but at least i had started it  

Luv Deb

 

★ 30-Day Organize-athon | Day 19

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Well todays challenge was

Organize Your Outgoing Space   

Interesting challenge -  What is my outgoing space 

We dont have a specific outgoing space and we dont have any books or anything that needs to be returned  

We dont have room to put a table at the door but what happens here is we have a spot for our keys in our room after a friend of my sons when visiting decided to move our keys and other stuff around causing a lot of ummm cursing and yelling 

Anything that needs to be taken with us for the day is put on the table with Jalans rehydration drink as we know we have to take that with us no matter what 

Usually we have very little stuff apart from wallets and mobiles that need to go with us and my mobile is always either attached to my jeans or pants by its lanyard or if i am actually taking a handbag with me to the handbag as i would forget my head if it was loose 

Brought some drawer dividers and some more hooks today so that i can have each thing where it belongs  Finally brought a new cutlery tray for my drawer as well as i am tired of my cutlery sliding everywhere when the kids open the drawer   The last one was pretty gross and couldnt be cleaned easy 

The new one has a non slip grip and is easily wiped down so now that is neat and organised too

 

Luv Deb