Happy Wednesday :-)

Today, the weather is beautiful and I am happy. I finally got out of the house last night to do something FUN! I had a Charlotte Mason meeting and enjoyed fellowship at IHOP afterwards with my book club group. It was nice to be able to do something just to relax. The house is slowly getting better--still have a long way to go, but we are making progress. The kids room is almost completely done. I just have a little bedding to wash and the floor to vacumn. I may also spend some time going through the toy boxes for misplaced items and yucky happy meal toys that need to disappear. I have inventoried clothing needs and they will all have to have some new shoes soon--especially the girls. We will be stopping by some consignment shops soon, I am sure.

My bedroom can now be walked through without knocking over piles of stuff. I do still have some piles to work on, but they are to the sides and corners of the room, so that they don't block my way to the bathroom in the night ;-) I have a plan for tackling some of the storage issues in the bedroom. I bought a small Rubbermaid three drawer dresser to organize our craft supplies, which are in a sad disaaray. The dresser has its place in my back bathroom, so all I have to do is gather and organize when I have the time.

The front part of the house still needs some decluttering work and just a good general cleaning. Right now, my highest priority is to catch up on laundry. It is stacked fairly high in the laundry basket and I want to get where I can just do a couple of loads every day or two and not have to do laundry from sunup to sundown.

These are my short-term goals. Hopefully, I can get things taken care of before I get too much sicker or further along in my pregnancy.

We are also working on some good habits for the children. I want them to each have their routines down with their own personal checklists that they can look at each day to remind them to do things such as change their underwear, brush their teeth, etc. For the little ones, I will be making checklists with pictures. Also, we are going to work on immediate and complete obedience. The kids have been struggling with this habit over the last few months, and we definitely need to get this one back.