House and Holiday Plan

Last year, I tried following along with the Christmas Countdown at Christmas.organizedhome.com. I really enjoyed doing what I could, even though I started late, had my appendix out, then had family in town for Mitchell's BFA show. This year, I'm still late staring, but that's because I'm going to try the House and Holidays Plan. I'm 3 weeks behind, and moving very slowly, but I am just excited to use it as a guide to get my home in order and prepare myself for a fun Christmas-time. 

Week 1 is all about organizing and planning. The first step is de-cluttering and organizing your home office/personal work space. I've been working on mine like crazy for almost a week now. So far, we've started rearranging the rooms so that my stuff and the dining room are all in the large area that we were using for our living room, I've sorted through my file boxes and thrown away over a foot of papers, and I started reorganizing my "craft closet."

This is a picture of the current state of my area:

I'm working in the open closet to the left. Once it's organized, most of the stuff on the floor will be inside it. I'm hoping I can make quick progress on it, even if I only work 15 minutes a day.

Chore Charts

I've finally gotten around to making chore charts for the kids. This is part one.