Those who know me know that I like organization and even better....RE-organization!! I just naturally look at rooms and imagine where things might look better and come up with a plan to get things "just right". I seem to go in little phases of this. Some may call it nesting, but it matters not if I am pregnant (which I am not :)! Anyway, being on a budget makes this more difficult, as I also imagine what fun things I could BUY to put in the room, but still fun nonetheless.
So, since we got an awesome deal on Groupon to get our carpets cleaned (which EVERYONE should sign up for...there are some awesome deals!), I decided what better time to RE-organize! My other motivation was that Anna will be mobile within a few months and I knew our toys needed a better, crawling-baby-friendly system...not to mention that we have a boy & a girl so there will need to be some way to separate boys & girls toys, to a certain extent at least. I am sure both will play with eachother's toys, but I can only imagine some of the future bickering among the two if there isn't some separation. At least that is my hope :)
In the living room, we re-arranged furniture and bought additional toy storage bins and shelves that not only are great storage, but look awesome, too! I also put all the "paper" books in Eli's room and left all the board books in the living room so Anna could have access to them, too:
This room is hard to arrange furniture in but this is by far the best. We even have a functioning end table which we haven't had for years as it was always hidden behind the couch:
In Eli's room, we moved the toybox from the living room and his bed to the opposite side of the room. More play space now (not much, but a little) and toys are more accessible, too:
Our hall bath has always been neutral and no "theme" to speak of. As Eli is getting older, and now with Anna, I thought we should give it a "kid" theme, but I wasn't sure what. When Grandpa Bidney gave Eli his own sailboat for the bath, we decided that an ocean theme would be fun and gender neutral. Grandma Bidney helped get us started and bought some fun ocean items. I hope to find some cute ocean theme towel hooks, too:
Along the same idea of change, I made a big one and decided to venture into cloth diapering with Anna. We have been lucky enough to last almost 6 months with diapers that were gifts for Anna...wow, huh?! Eli is still not potty trained, and so the thought of buying diapers for TWO, kinda freaked me out. I have several friends who cloth diaper and to be honest, it always intimidated me. With Eli I was too overwhelmed with being a new mom to even consider the venture. But after researching it, I have found that the cloth diapering world is super easy, super fun, and SUPER CUTE!!! Long gone are the days of diaper pins and essentially they work the same as disposables, you just toss them in the wash instead of the trash!! So, all you mamas considering cloth diapering, give it a try...you'll see how cost effective, easy, and hey, environmentally friendly it is!! Now at our house you see a lot of this:
Lastly, I am proud to announce that after FOUR years of living in this house, we have FINALLY become a recycling household...geez...took us long enough, huh?!:
Have a great one!
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