Mom Taxi Before and After

I shared on Friday how bad I needed to get my car in order for Fall sports season.  We didn't have anything organized while we moved and used my car as a landing spot for all the things we HAD to know where they were. Living in a construction zone was not the easiest!

Yikes! Absolutely zero things ready! 

I am a big fan of teaching kids responsibilities, so I am not about to make a checklist of everything they need for their sport. They know what they need to have to play (mitt, knee pads, hats and flags) Those are for them to manage. The stuff I need to manage is everything else! And it has to be easy, all put together and ready on a whim.  This is how we do it.

I use something like this in the back, so I can easily take it out when/if we have a sports free day.

I try to make sure we have
Chairs
Blanket
first aid kit*
baby wipes
Sun Screen
Bottled Water
Snacks that will keep a while
 Instant Ice Pack
Kleenex
Pen and Paper

It fits just fine in one little portion!
Hopefully this will help us feel less like a circus for the next 5 weeks or so.

I only keep a small first aid kit in our car, specific to our kids.
* Bandages
* Some oils (Better than kisses, germ away)
* inhaler
* tweezers
* Nux Vomica (car sickness is an issue here)
* Sanitizer
* antibiotic cream
* ace bandage

We don't typically use fever reducers, not enough to keep them in our first aid kid for sports.

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New Old House {Day 4}

It's Tuesday and hubby's last day before he goes back to work.

We finished prepping Carsyn's room for paint (already did the ceiling)

Before

It's a super light pink

After

And the kitchen had some progress

 Goodbye drop ceiling! And yes that is sunlight, there is no roof right now!

 Opening up a little more

Still tiny, but less cave like!

The shake roof that was leaking is gone, maybe the house won't look so brown once the new stuff is up.

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New Old House {Day 3}

I don't think I shared before that we are doing this whole thing family style!

We bring all 4 kids with us, the big 3 have jobs, and are SO willing to help for the most part. 

My in laws have been amazing and done SO much to help out!

Mini wall came down! Already feels more open!

We took this down just to add another wall soon! We needed a 4th bedroom, so the living room is going to have some changes.

Finn helping Pop Pop move some light switches.

 Hawkins was having a hard time falling asleep, there was a lot of noise. I had him in the backpack walking around and nearly had a cow, I was looking out the back door and I swear there was a bear cub! My heart was racing and I was starting to count kids, hoping they were all inside, and then I saw 2 more bear cubs and realized they were pigs haha. Took the little 3 and walked to the neighbors to tell them their pigs were out. That was a first for me, herding pigs with a baby on my back.

Biggin was busy filling paneling nail holes.

 Took out the kitchen and dining carpet, that black stuff is rubber that has broken down and was so gross!

Once we got all that up the walls started coming down.

Better already!

And there is our fancy microwave too!

We also spent hours at the home improvement stores today! Lighting is SO hard to decide on for me.

I don't think I will be able to convince hubby to go with me again!

Here is the issue I have. I like expensive things (not because they are expensive, just happens to be that way) we have no budget for that type of business. So, we looked at every light and after lusting over the $200 dining light, we got a $7 globe.
Trying to keep the priorities fresh in my mind. Not an easy task!

Home Improvement Store trip count after today :  7

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Old New House {Day 2}

Day 2 was long and hard, kids were such troopers!

All the carpet and pad, huge pile o' stank! So glad to see it gone!

 Spent a little time removing ugly hardware!

So much nasty grime underneath the hardware.

Paneling (most of it) and carpet gone!

A whole lot of carpet removal, paneling coming down and hardware!
It feels like all we did was take stuff down today!
And a little wall was gone too. The entry way was just weird!

This was the half wall before, but after I took down the weird little built in shelf above it.

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