September, the 2nd January

I just love September! It's like January but better, the weather is so much better!

I love that it's almost a new start. A new start for routines, for clothes, for sports, for meals.

Now not all of these will apply to everyone but at our house, they sure do! We might be a week in already but now that Labor Day is over it really sinks in.

We also have a new home, that has been a whole new start for us!

I am going to use this new season to get back to meal planning, now that we have a functional kitchen, working on that Capsule Wardrobe, keeping my planner on point so we don't miss a practice and getting this new place organized while figuring out my cleaning rhythm. 

What about you? Is September a fresh start? A chance to pick up the balls that got dropped over the summer?

I'm starting with meal planning again. We have eaten out SO often while we were living in a construction zone. Not a fan, and neither is our budget.   It's supposed to be hot here this week (boooo) so we probably won't have any of those cozy fall meals we have been missing.

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Real Life for 6! Organized Bathrooms

As we are navigating our new home, figuring out what we need and where it will all be, I realized that the 1 bathroom we currently have was going to need to be the first thing tackled!

Getting everyone through the bathroom in time for school has already been a challenge.

 Thankful to have these amazing built ins. They store these handled bins, each kiddo has one. And because I am not a maid and we want to encourage our kids to be responsible for their own things, they each have their own stuff in the baskets. Toothpaste was especially a fight, one would squeeze from the middle, leave toothpaste all over the lid etc. Now the ones who don't appreciate that don't have to deal with it, and I don't have to hear about it! Win Win

I use the extras to keep other things together, like oils. 

Another thing I have done to keep from having to pick up towels, hearing fights about who left their towel on the floor and asking who left theirs there, was add this one little thing to the towels.

Just a colored ribbon! Each muffin has a color. They have to deal with their own color. They also each have a towel hook, no excuse for leaving them on the floor.

Stuff that needs to be out needs to be pretty,  we have our qtips, bentonite clay, and guests cups on a little cake plate. 

Any awesome organization tips for bathrooms that don't cost an arm and a leg? Always looking to improve our system.

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Little bit of an update on the bathroom!

Working in the bathroom today, thought I should do a little update!

In case you missed the before pictures..

Before

During

And a little more during

And this is where we are now! 

Floors in, molding almost done, a couple of fluff items, mirror, some art and painting the built ins and it will be good!

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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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