Slowly but surely

I'm getting around to actually ORGANIZING! It's tough though being as busy as I am! But I'm learning to simply take the time needed to get a little done here and there. The shape my house is in is part of what determines my attitude!  To be quite frank, I didn't grow up with the greatest example and it is hard to overcome the way you grow up! It gets done and then there's a back track and then more progress... Don't dump dishes in the sink and run back down stairs to work, actually take the 5 minutes needed to clean up the kitchen and it helps one to feel so much better at days end!

As my family can attest, I'm not a natural organizer. Things tend to quickly become disorganized so I'm trying to come up with ways that will help me stay organized. Bed Bath & Beyond was my to go place this weekend. :) A shoe rack on the floor of my pantry cupboard worked wonderfully, drawer organizers for the kitchen utensil drawers and jars from IKEA to empty packages of beans etc. The jars make for nice decoration as well as keeping what I have to use within the line of vision. A two for one! :) My bedroom is super close to being all organized!! Erika put together a contraption for me and shelves that were in a closet are now all gone! And I have an awesome new to me dresser.

The girls came with Erika so while she worked we had a wonderful couple of hours together! They are growing up so quickly! It's hard to believe that Teagan will be in kindergarten next year! Crazy! They're in a good preschool/daycare place right now. Scarlet's doing well with the diabetes. There are advantages to being diabetic from the get go!! It's simply the way life is with nothing to refer back to. They have a cool contraption on her now that allows them to monitor her sugars continuously throughout the day. It's connected to their phones so they can check sugars without actually having to poke her during the day. They do need to physically check morning and evening to keep it calibrated but that's it! And if sugars are too high or too low it'll buzz. It certainly makes life a lot easier for the preschool!! I would think in a couple of years she'll be on a insulin pump.

Now an update on my container of potatoes! It actually worked and I have a bunch of purple potatoes! I really want to do this next year. All I need to do is find some organic purple potatoes next year and let them sprout and then plant!! The awesome thing is all you have to do with a container is dump it out and pull the potatoes out. No digging required. One thing I was really surprised about was the lack of rotting, although I did make sure there was holes poked every and one container was inside another so it didn't sit in water. None the less it rained A LOT last month and the potting soil felt soaked. I think we had somewhere between 8-10 inches of rain last month. So this month I wasn't expecting to find many good potatoes when the container got dumped but there wasn't one single rotten potato! There's still some swiss chard growing and herbs but other then that the garden is completely done.

Now back to work! :)