Life with Our Magnificent 7: WEEK 3 - Holiday Planning 2015

Welcome to the chaos we call our life & family!

My DH often says this is the chaos we like to call our family, or something to that effect. To answer the basic questions we here often: Yes! With 7 children we are busy! Yes! It often gets hectic, chaotic, crazy, & overwhelming, we love it anyway! No! We do not wish we had a smaller family we can't imagine our lives with less children, we love them all! Yes! It's tricky co-ordinating everyones schedules thank goodness for the FLYlady calendar (if you haven't heard of FLYlady I really recommend looking up her site!). Yes! We do cook a LOT of food, and we eat all or most of it in one sitting! No! You probably do not want to see our grocery bill, or how much we spend on clothes, footwear, sports, etc. each year! ;-) UPDATE 2019: We now have 1 of the original 7 that lives at home. We have added a 3 wonderful daughter-in-laws and an awesome son-in law, as well as 3 beautiful granddaughters and 3 handsome grandsons with our oldest 4. We have 2 adult daughters who have also moved to their own places.

Chaos, maybe, boring, NEVER! There is almost always something going on in our home, never a dull moment from the adult perspective anyway... you know kids, if it gets "too quiet" they are sure it's a sign of being bored! LOL

In 2008 we moved into a new "project home" I have posted some of the fun & craziness that has happened while replacing flooring, adding a furnace, roof, pantry, texture to the walls redoing a kitchen and much more.

2019 UPDATE: WE NOW have purchased a new "prject home = rehab home" that we hope to move into by the end of September 2019! Again feel free to join us for the ride as we continue our new adventure to upgrade get our home ready for move in! It has been interesting to say the very least!

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

WEEK 3 - Holiday Planning 2015

So much to do, better start here!

Holiday Planning - Week 3- Main Bathroom & Office - Focus: Me & Mine

September 15 - 21

DEEP CLEAN:

Upstairs Bathroom

Downstairs Bathroom

Stacia's Desk

Jordan's Desk

ZONE 3 - BATHROOM & ANOTHER ROOM:

Reorganize Downstairs Wall Cupboard in Bathroom

Reorganize Hall Medicine Closet

Reorganize Stacia's Desk

Reorganize Jordan's Desk

Clean Desktops

Clean Desk Shelves

Clean Out Desk Files

Clean Underneath Desks

PLANNING AHEAD:

Seasonal Spruce Up (Form)

Double One Meal & Freeze Half for the Holidays

Setup Christmas Gift Wrapping Center

Buy Supplies to Make Handcrafted Gifts

Sort Supplies for Each Gift So They Are Ready To Work On

Buy Camera Batteries & Charge All Batteries

Buy Camcorder Tapes & Charge Battery

Purchase Mailing Labels

Update Mailing List

Print Address labels

Purchase, Order, or Print Christmas Cards &/or Letters

Plan Mom Pampering Sessions(s)

Set up a Gift Closet/Boxes Area(s)

Choose New Christmas Cookie & Baking Recipes to try & type in Cookbook

Make copies of recipes and place them in the Christmas Notebook.

Print poop gifts.

HOLIDAY POOP GIFTS

Halloween        Pumpkin   Candy Corn or Mini-pumpkins
Thanksgiving   Turkey         Raisinets, Malt Balls, Reeses Bites, Milk Duds
Christmas         Reindeer     Junior Mints, Raisinets, Malt Balls, Milk Duds
                          Snowman    White Chocolate Covered Candy, Marshmallows
Valentines        Cupid           Something Red, Junior Mints?
St. Patrick’s     Leprechaun  Junior Mints, Gold Coins, Something Green

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

WEEK 3 - Holiday Planning 2015

﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿So much to do, better start here!

Print poop gifts.

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So much to do, better start here!