That Thing Called Life...A Day in the Life of a Crafty Mom

Hello my lovelies! I cannot believe how long it has been since I posted a craft blog update!  In my defense, as a mom of three and a full time student, my studies started to take priority.  I am excited to say that by the summer of 2019 I will officially hold a bachelor's degree!  Woo hoo! So far, all of this with honors.  Pray for me that I graduate with honors! Anyway, my slacker tail hasn't been around here as much.  I noticed some emails requesting a copy of a chore chart I did during an organizing blog I posted.  You can find the post  here . The computer that the copy was on died on me, and I kept meaning to create a new one and yadda yadda.  Please refer to the title of my blog as it is "That Thing Called Life", and believe me, it happens.  Tonight I finally completed the new chart and emailed to all who had requested it.  As I am looking at my stats I pull up that particular post and HOLY COW! I have had almost 12,000 views! ...

If you haven't bought one already, chances are you have been searching for the perfect family calendar or personal planner.  I've had this struggle for years.  Trying to find the one that has spots for everything you need or enough room to right it all in.  Finally, you buy it, and then start out strong but towards the end of the year you realize you have hardly touched it. Last year I finally decided to make my own planner. There are tons of options online to print your own pages and place them in a three ring binder, or order one all set up.  The one that really caught my attention last year, was a mom that used grid paper to make her own.  At first I thought it was a lot of work and was skeptical.  I'm not going to sugar coat it, it does take time.  However, once you have found the "formula"  you want to use, setting it up is a breeze. I started my planner in June of last year.  I could not find any grid or graph paper, so I came up wi...

Happy New Year!! I really cannot believe I have not posted since June of last year.  I took the summer to just enjoy time with my husband and kiddos, and then school started back (myself included) and time just got away from me.  Right now, two of my three are back in school and I have another week off before my classes begin.  So, I wanted to take time to share with you a mission that I am on: ORGANIZATION and DECLUTTERING. I started following a site last year, but I never gave it a chance.  This year I am determined to do it.  It's about getting rid of the clutter in your home and organizing it all over the course of a year.  I know you may be thinking, A YEAR??  Seriously.  Think about it though.  Unless you have several days (or weeks) in a row that you can truly go through and clean out every area of your home at one time, what happens?  If you're like me, you get started and then have to get back to reality.  Everything ju...

I started a post on this a few weeks ago and started getting so far in to it that it was looking more like a book than a post.  So, I decided to break it down in to a mini series called: Planning an Organized Home It's a short, six part series that I want to share with you on how I started to get our home organized and in a better routine than we have had in the past.  The more routine, the less whining "why do we have to??".  It becomes a part of every day life for every one in the house. The first thing I worked on were chore charts: one for the kids and one for the parents.  While I have a pretty good routine for my own household chores, having it in writing and staring me down keeps me from falling off track so much.  I searched online for different printable and customizable charts, and ended up finding some pre-loaded with my ancient laptop under Microsoft Works.  If you have Microsoft Excel or Word, you can do the same thing.  I attempted ...