Category: Family Matters

I’ve been home with MAM all week due to holidays (Monday) and her nasty cough/cold. I’ve been trying to get a few things done, and I have to say the to do list is getting shorter. But, as the following will illustrate, it’s probably coincidence and not really my doing.

In reorganizing all of our Christmas decoration storage, I managed to consolidate some of the flotsam in our one-car garage. To make a long story short, I ended up with all the Christmas decoration tubs (finally, those red and green jobby-dos that should alleviate the hunting down of the decorations for next year) in the garage and stuff that was in the garage, in the house to be redistributed into totes. The other night I repacked the last two 18 gallon containers with old toys and what nots. The two 18 gallon totes have been in my living room since Monday night.

Today I decided to do a few things in the garage–make room for the two totes, put an insulated blanket around the hot water heater, change the furnace filter and clear the path from the door to the car.

As soon as MAM was asleep, I bundled up and got to work–I got the blanket taken care of (very easy–I hope that we get the projected energy savings), the filter changed (overdue! gross!) and the totes generally more tidy and a pathway cleared. Phew! Glad I got all of that out of the way.

I came in, sat down, checked email and…looked up to see those two 18 gallon totes still staring at me. In the living room. Not neatly away in the garage, which was the whole point in the above exercise.

If this is 34, anything past 60 scares me….

We have been extremely blessed to receive scads of clothes for MAM. Between hand-me-downs and gifts, the girl has always had oodles of clothes to choose from on any given day. What I found though, was that putting shirts in one drawer and pants in another wasn’t really working for me. Instead, I’ve started putting her clothes in her drawers as ready-made outfits–a pair of pants wrapped around a coordinating shirt. It works beautifully–I do this as I fold the laundry anyway, and then in the wee-dark hours of the early morning, I can just grab a bundle and know that the girl shall be adequately dressed. I can mix and match different shirts and tops each time I do the laundry. Extra shirts and pants go in another drawer for the times when she needs to change one part but not the other. This really does work for me! Here’s a question though–thoughts on organizing socks?? Her sock drawer needs some help!

Today is Backwards day at WFMW...which means I ask and you tell me what works for you. So here is my question..

Where digital photography is concerned, what works for you? We’ve got everything backed up and cataloged on a safe hard drive (this is completely BgK’s domain, and he rocks it). But how much do you print? What do you do with your prints? Do you only scrapbook? Do you only use photo albums? How many photo albums per year do you fill?

We have a baby scrapbook for MAM, and a “first 18 months” photo album. Then I’ve got some other random little albums, but not really a system. Any advice on how to get into the routine of printing pics, of what to do with said pics, where to store said pics, etc, would be greatly appreciated.

THANK YOU!