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How I Manage Laundry!

Thursday, January 30, 2014

As a stay at home mom the thing I most often hear people complain about is laundry. I've never personally understood this? Laundry isn't a chore that bothers me in the least! Today is BFBN Tips and Tricks Thursday and we're all blogging on this very popularly hated chore. Check out our Pinterest board for TONS of tips to help make the laundry in your life a little easier :) Here is how I personally manage the laundry in our home! When we built our home the laundry room was important to me. I wanted it to be large enough where I didn't feel cramped and I wanted to have plenty of storage, counter space, and a sink as well! Here is what our laundry room looks like (yes, that's a rather sexy  picture of my husband and I... there is a story there... )  Here are some lifesavers I have in our laundry room to keep me organized and make the process easier: I keep a basket on the top of the washing machine. Anything that has a stain goes into the basket durin...

NYC Day 2: Freezing!

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

I used to be one of those people who didn't value sleeping in. I especially didn't understand why someone would go on vacation and then just sleep ?!?! What a waste of a trip! You can sleep at home! Heck, you can sleep when you're dead! Then I had children! And yes, my kids sleep 12 hours solid each night from about the age of two months old...but they wake up every single morning at 7:10. There is never any sleeping in at our house! Now, I would LOVE to just SLEEP IN.  When I made our itinerary for this trip (and, of course, we had  an itinerary. Typed. And printed copies. Duh!) I purposefully left a good bit of down time. We've been to NYC before. We know we'll come back someday. This wasn't a cram-everything-in-now type trip! So on the morning of Day 2 we slept. And it was heavenly :) Prior to coming on our trip we saw that Saturday (Day 2) would be some harsh weather. Like a high of 26 degrees. Yes, high. And snow! We were excited for snow! ...
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