Car organization

I really need to get my car organized now that I have a kid. 

There is ALWAYS trash on the floor, 

toys & binkies are everywhere, 

my cell phone is never where I can reach,

can't ever find any baby wipes when I need them, 

our blankets are always getting removed from the back of the car,

the sunscreen always ends up way under the seat, 

the glove compartment is so full that it can barely close it most of the time,

the sippy cup always ends up rolling around on the floor, 

and all the stuff I try to keep in the back always ends up getting taken out.

I am definitely frustrated so I went to my favorite place for inspiration...

Pinterest to get some ideas on how to fix all these problems!

Sources

So here is the inspiration that I found to organize my car!

I need to do this ASAP...

so I don't completely lose my mind. 

Organization

I need some motivation to organize my house so I was looking through the blog world and this is some of the amazing inspiration that I have found!

I love how iHeart Organizing has organized her living room and one of her cupboards. Actually her entire house is amazing.

iHeart Organizing

iHeart Organizing

I love how House of Smith's has organized her pantry it is gorgeous! I am so jealous of the way it looks.

House of Smith's

The way A Bowl Full of Lemons has organized her mail and her junk drawers makes me very envious! Love them!

A Bowl Full of Lemons

A Bowl Full of Lemons

That is just a little bit of organization inspiration for me! I hope I can get my house looking better! I just need to hop to it... hmm. Let's see if it works out!

21 Days - Day 2 Fridge & Valentine's Date

I got day 2 done of the 21 Day Challenge from A Bowl Full of Lemons. I am WAY behind but I am working on it. I don't have many before pictures because my hubs started cleaning the fridge out before I could take pictures. So here are the two before pictures I did get.

Yes my fridge is EMPTY! We needed to go shopping, but with James being gone we and Zane and me staying at my parents house for most of the week we haven't really needed to have many groceries. But we did go today and got a few more things. But they're not pictured in the after pictures because these were all taken yesterday right after it was cleaned out and put back.

Here are the after pictures of my empty fridge.

I bought a lazy-susan to put all our smaller condiments on and took out one of the top shelves so that it would fit in. I still need to get another just one tier lazy-susan for the top shelf so you can access everything up there easily. I just need to make a trip to Bed, Bath & Beyond to get the really large one that they have there. Our son is just learning how to use a sippy cup and drink juice and water and not just formula so that is why we have all those sippy cups in our fridge. We bought some juice canisters so that they fit better into the door. All the salad dressing is in the one door because it is a VERY small shelf and then on the other side we have the butter, juice, & the larger condiments. The two smaller drawers hold the fruits & Veggies and then the bottom big drawer holds all our cheese, lunch meat, & tortilla's. So now our fridge is much neater and everything is much easier to access.

Last night James took me to dinner for Valentine's Day since he's going to be leaving again tonight about 7:00 and won't be here for tomorrow night. His mom came over to watch Zane and we went to The Oswego Lake House.

The food was amazing and the atmosphere was so pleasant and relaxing. We had a very enjoyable dinner. I had the 8oz Filet Mignon and James had the Fresh Fish of the day which was Halibut and they both were amazing. We also had crab cakes as an appetizer and for sides we got the shoestring french fries and steamed broccoli and for dessert we had the lava cake! Oh yummy! It was so nice to have some time away from the little guy and just have adult time.

21 Days - Day 1 Laundry Room

So I started my 21 Days of Organization today. I am starting with the laundry room (which is actually just a closet in the downstairs bathroom) because it was pretty close to being organized in the first place but I just made it look prettier by adding storage baskets to put the ugly cleaning supplies in so you don't have to look at them.

Here are the before pictures:

Before

Before

Before

Before

Here are the after pictures:

After

After

After

After

It is still a work in progress actually. We removed the doors when we moved in because of how far the washer and dryer stuck out and I love that there are no doors, it makes things much easier. I need to paint the inside of the closet green or yellow, put hooks on the wall to hang the Swiffer, long duster, and broom on the wall to the right, change the side the washer and dryer are on so that the doors don't open into each other, and build a shelf across the top of the washer and dryer so I can use it as a folding surface. We are also going to add another shelf in the shelving unit we installed so that we have a little more storage in there and we are going to add a light inside the closet area because it is so dark in that little room. We store the laundry baskets in there on top of the washer and dryer also but they are full of clean laundry... oh the joys of having a small child, the laundry never ends! I do so love the way it looks now without all the ugly cleaning supplies showing.

I bought all of my containers at Big Lots, Dollar Tree, and Target. They were all pretty cheap and it just turned out that they all were either green or yellow which is perfect because those were the colors I was going for because of the laundry picture above the opening to the closet.  I think it makes it a cheerier place to be too.

Home Alone

So James leaves today for 4 months. He is going down to Salem for academy. He will be able to come home on the weekends but for the rest of the week I will be home with Zane by myself which is going to be so very strange! I can't believe that it is already time for him to leave. It sucks but I know I can do it.

While James is gone though I am going to do the 21-day Organization challenge that A Bowl Full of Lemons has done one her blog.



I'm also going to be doing her weekly challenge.



It is going to feel so good to get organized and have James come home to it organized and clean! It's going to be a lot of work but I can do it and it's going to be so nice once it's done. I'm actually very excited about doing the challenge. I'll post pictures as I go through each challenge and show you my progress. We'll see how it all turns out in the end.

Home Alone

So James leaves today for 4 months. He is going down to Salem for academy. He will be able to come home on the weekends but for the rest of the week I will be home with Zane by myself which is going to be so very strange! I can't believe that it is already time for him to leave. It sucks but I know I can do it.

While James is gone though I am going to do the 21-day Organization challenge that A Bowl Full of Lemons has done one her blog.