I guess the more times you are pregnant the early the nesting starts each time? It sure seems that way for me. I go through this feeling of "I NEED to get all of this in order before baby comes, because once baby comes, I will not be able to do ANYTHING for the next year." That has almost been true with Cheyanne, so I guess there is some basis for my thinking.
My nesting focuses right now are, obviously, rearranging my children's rooms so that I have everyone in the best possible spot. I feel a need to move Cheyanne out of my room in order to have her be a bit more independent once baby comes along. Cheyanne still nurses 2-3 times each night and will cry herself back to sleep (after about 15-20 minutes) at least once if not, twice a week. Goodness, that little peanut is a handful. I came up with what I thought was this great and inexpensive way to store all of the kids so that we could work on Cheyanne's nighttime Independence and not totally throw everyone else into chaos. (see previous post)
Rich and I were talking last night about our concern of moving 5 year old Elijah downstairs with 10 year old Dante. They are like 2 peas in a pod, but there are times when Dante just exhausts Eli. Eli works so hard at keeping up with Dante and Dante fails to recognize (like any normal 10 year old would) that Eli is still so young. We kind of feel like it is good for Elijah to have his own 5 year old spot of refuge, even it if is just a top bunk in a room with a 3 year old. :O) So, our new plan, is to temporarily move Izzie into the boys' room onto the toddler bed. Once Cheyanne is sleeping through the night (11pmish-4amish) we will move Isabella back into her sweet little princess room.
Second concern with a super easy cheap solution. As you can imagine, the mounds of laundry that form around this house are insurmountable to say the least. I do approximately 15-20 loads of laundry a week on a normal week and that is when I am being diligent about making sure the kids are not tossing clothes that have only been wore for 3 seconds into the hamper, or snowy days, or rainy days, or sprinkler days, or garden days, or forest days...you get my drift. I have been brainstorming on ways to cut back the amount of time, water, and soap I am using each day on LAUNDRY.
It dawned on me that we go through about 4-6 bath towels at least every 2 days. One person uses a towel and leaves it on the basement floor or under a bed and the next person grabs a fresh towel, leaves it on the floor and then it gets stepped on with a pair of dirty sneakers and the cycle is vicious. Rich is not using a snotty, dirty towel first thing in the morning, so he grabs a fresh towel and washcloth. It is like a Days Inn with the fresh towel syndrome. I have come up with a we all share one bathroom and a few towel hooks solution.
My mom has made each of my children, the cutest hooded towels. Each child has been assigned a towel that comes along with it's own individual hook. They will use that towel for the entire week. They are after all just drying off clean bodies. Towels will be washed on Mondays. Loads of towels is reduced from 16-24 towels a week down to 7. YAY, again for an easy, cheap solution. Check out the towel hook I got for less than 10 bucks at Lowes. It is totally metal and there are enough hooks for all 6 children. I was able to get it hung last night and I am loving it already.

2 comments:
Love it, great idea. I did a similar thing for my sil a couple years ago, gave the color-coded towels.
I am laughing because your profile has your pic but says "Dante - I'm a rhinestone cowboy..." Has he converted you into his cowboy gang too? LOL!
Amber, you may not know this about me and I have kind of hesitated to tell you, but I truly am a Rhinestone Cowboy...undercover. :O)
I saw that the next and was laughing so hard. I had done that on his blog and it transferred to mine.
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