Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Day 7...

Today is the final day of Mrs. Wilt's Anti-Procrastination Challenge, and I started bright and early... thanks to little Miss B! The main thing I wanted to get done was to go down to Kerbler's, the local glass shop, and have a glass shelf cut to fit one of my new kitchen cabinets. The children and I trudged out into the snow (Brrrr....), and ordered the shelf. Unfortunately, my schedule is really full today with dental appointments and a small group dinner, so other than some housecleaning, I think this marks the end of my "official" AP projects. More projects will follow, but I just won't be documenting them here.

And Karen... I didn't win any of the challenges, but Mrs. Wilt is giving everyone who participated all week a copy of one of her books. So this has truly been a win-win week!

Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Day Six...

Ahhhhh... a day of rest!! Today was another snowy Sunday around Central Ohio, so after church we came home and just rested all afternoon. Simultaneously, Brian, Dylan, and Brooklyn took their afternoon naps affording me about an hour or more of purely quiet time --- no tv, a little classical music playing very lowly in the background, and a little reading and planning for the upcoming week. One by one they started to wake up (Brooklyn first, of course), and the "noise" resumed.

I did take advantage of Brian being home to get a couple of pictures hung... I know, according to Mrs. Wilt, we should have today off from the AP Challenge, but I just can't reach the spot where these pictures needed to be hung without Brian's help. So, another completed task!

Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Day Five...

AP Challenge Project for today... family breakfast! We tend to do a more leisurely breakfast every Saturday morning, so this wasn't out of the norm for us. However, today would have been an easy day to skip breakfast together in lieu of just getting everyone ready and out of the door. We've had a long list of things to get done today before we need to be at church tonight, so my challenge was really to make this breakfast take priority on a day when skipping it would have relieved my schedule a little. By the way, it was yummy!!

Oh... and no challenge will be done tomorrow! I'll be resting!

Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Day Four...

Today's AP Challenge projects were simple tasks that just needed to be done:

--- Cleaned off the boot tray which has been accumulating lots of wet and snowy shoes over the past week

--- Made some new tiebacks for the curtains that I altered yesterday

--- Assembled, addressed, and sent out banquet invitations that should have been sent out three or four days ago

That's all for now...

Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Day Three...

It's Day 3 of Mrs. Wilt's AP Challenge, and I thought I had a pretty easy project to do --- hem the new curtains that are going in our newly remodeled kitchen. I was wrong!!!

I've had these new curtains since right after Christmas, but I just haven't gotten around to hemming them. We've had so many folks in and out of the kitchen working on the remodel that the curtains seemed really secondary (more like tertiary) to installing the cabinets and flooring. So today I decided to pull them off the rods and finish them off.

At least I can say they are done, but the fabric was so difficult to work with that it took much longer than I ever expected. Bottom line is they are hemmed and hanging nicely in the kitchen windows, and I am one step closer to a completely remodeled kitchen.

Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Day Two

I've heard it called a "Launch Pad"... you know, that spot by the door where everyone tends to drop their stuff when they walk in the house. Ours is more like a "Drop Zone" than a "Launch Pad" --- things tend to be dropped off, but rarely do I see them actually launch from here! Rather, it is an acculation of completly random items (aka "clutter").

So, this was my AP Challenge project for the day. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you'll have to check out Mrs. Wilt's blog "The Sparrow's Nest" to find out the details.

We call this thing the "Serpentine Chest" --- that was the official name for it when we bought it, and the name stuck. I started off by taking the top drawer - the "junk" drawer - out and emptying it completely. I refilled only with the things that are necessary.

Then I cleared off the top and the stuff that sat nearby on the floor. The end result... a much nicer, more inviting entryway!

Anti-Procrastination Challenge: Day One

I recently stumbled upon a blog called The Sparrow's Nest. Mrs. Wilt, the blog owner, is quite prolific when it comes to writing about homekeeping matters, and I've found myself skimming as many of her recent posts as I possibly can. So today she issued an Anti-Procrastination Challenge. The point is to tackle one project each day that you've been dreading and delaying. Each day she'll pick a random winner to receive a copy of one of her e-books. So here's my Tuesday project...

TOYS!!! TOYS!!! TOYS!!!

With two little ones, the toys seem to pile up... especially post-Christmas!! Today, I spent just a few minutes sorting the toys and storing them in plastic bins. I threw out some of the toys that were broken or missing key parts, and I put away the toys that were too small to have around with Brooklyn exploring every nook of the house. The end result was a cleaner family room that still contains the 4-foot inflatable space shuttle my son received for Christmas (Thank you Auntie Cayenne... we love playing with it)!