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Here’s My Number… Call Me… Maybe

Hmmmm… Or.gan.i.za.tion

(did I even spell that right, because I have trouble pronouncing!)

With me being here with the kiddos by myself… I am trying to keep a handle on the house staying spotless (so it can be shown at any minute), keeping my sanity, getting everything done for school, and starting to de-clutter for the move.

If you know me at all you know that I am artsy… not organized! I didn’t say dirty, just a “little” unorganized… My sisters took all the “OCD” genes before me because they are all uber organized! ALL of them! I could tell some stories, but they wouldn’t appreciate that! 🙂

So thanks to my “slight” addiction to Pinterest… these pictures are attacking my eyes… they cover my entire “Following” screen! Organization this and Organization that. What I KNOW what is really going on is this: 1. I am completely NORMAL and people pin organization ideas in the same manner they pin everything else… just pinning it to make themselves feel more accomplished, not that they truly are organized. 2. They are all so high on the OCD scale just like (cough) others mentioned earlier and are really doing this stuff! I choose to think the first response is the correct one.

Well, obviously who am I joking, I got the MomAgenda app for my iPad and created this “Binder” that has spots for everything school and house related. MomAgenda I have actually had for a while. It is really great. It separates the calendars into each family member or you can look at all at once. It also has a spot where you can select it to send you a text message to remind you about a certain event! Which has saved me on more than one occasion! Check it out, really!

In my search (that is a strong word… search… the fact that I couldn’t escape the pins on pinterest) I kept seeing these menu planning ideas. Me, really, I cannot do that! But I did come across a pretty cool site that has monthly meals planed out and they actually look pretty tasty and different.

Now committing to this is another story… It looks good on paper, but does the effort outweigh the end result. That is yet to be determined. I will keep you posted (If you never hear about it again, don’t think anything about it!).

So where I pulled the title of the post out of my ummm… HAT… Is that if there are any of you that are “searching” for a system that works, Here’s my number… Call me… Maybe! Big emphasis on Maybe!

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First Day of School

 

 

 

After much discussion and thought, we decided to start school at First Baptist Church School again this year. Our lives have been crazy to say the least, but FBCS has always been a great place for Jillian.

Andrew is still staying in Dallas through the week and home on the weekends. And 7-Eleven was totally understanding and we all made the decision that we would stay in Shreveport until December or until the house sells.

Since we took the last minute trip to Utah… It made for a crazy day getting ALL of our school stuff together. We were supposed to get home the Sunday before school started. But we were literally STUCK at the airport for 3 days! The crazy thing is… I read this Yahoo story this morning… “Family of 4 stuck in SLC airport for 5 days” OMG it was the same time we were stuck in SLC airport. My heart truly goes out to them. Those 3 days were very difficult making the kiddos get up at 4AM to ride the shuttle for an hour to get to the airport to sit around for 10 hours! Then back to the hotel to wake up and do it all again:( Lesson… never fly standby with kids! Here is the link to the story! Family Stranded in SLC Airport

We finally made it home, and didn’t have much time to process that this was Brooks’ First Day of BIG school! He is finally at Jill-Jill’s school! And his teacher is our next door neighbor! We love Mrs. Wilkinson! He has already been her helper and brought Fresh Fruit to hand out to everyone… He loves being a Patriot

Jillian has Mrs. J.Cox… She is hilarious! She will be perfect for Jillian! I am so excited to be here for a little while longer. I just think it is a wonderful school and it has been a blessing to our family.

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