Drum Roll Please!

And the winner of the 2009 Motivated Moms Planner is…..

Here are your random numbers:

215

Timestamp: 2009-02-02 00:03:12 UTC

Rhonda

Rhonda requested the 2009 full sized page per day planner w/scheduled bible reading.

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Getting Ahead

I finally feel like I am getting ahead of the lice game. We still have a steady stream of laundry because I don’t want to take any chances of the lice spreading. In the past 5 days I have only found one live bug, so I consider that a step in the right direction. We still spending our mornings going through everyone’s hair and checking, but things are looking up.

The good news is that because we had to cancel all of our plans I got a lot accomplished this week. First I conquered Mt. Laundry. The before picture was actually taken before things got really bad. At its worst point I actually had to climb over it to get to the washer.
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I cleaned off one of my desks.
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I was also behind in organizing the Coupons for Troops mailing. The coupons were sorted and repackaged this weekend and mailed out today.
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My kids had quite a laugh when they opened the Sunday paper. The topic of the kid’s section, lice!

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Since we couldn’t go to church yesterday I baked most of my breads for the week. I will post about that later, but I’ll leave you with two pictures, any guesses what I new recipes I tried this week?

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Getting Settled

After a week of moving, I feel like we are finally getting settled in our new house. We still have a long way to go, (my bedroom and the garage) but we are making progress. This summer my goal is to sort through every bin, box and cubby we have in our house and get rid of the things my kids don’t use anymore. They have so many great toys, but they seem to get lost in the shuffle. I want to weed out the bad from the good so we can start using the good stuff!

Here are some pictures from our move.

Dining Room last week

Dining Room this week

Living Room last week

Living Room this week

Kitchen last week

Kitchen this week

School Room last week

School Room this week

The Garage (aka the black hole)

I hope to make progress on the black hole this week.

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