Where has June gone?

So I confess, we've not done much so far this summer. (I'm blaming it on the continual rain storms, I've begun thinking we live in a rainforest.) Hopefully those have about passed us by now. We have been busy with a few things I guess. June is a busy month for our family with birthdays and this month Hollie and I both had birthdays. Hollie's consisted of a double decker party- friend party by morning, family party by night. And we did attend our annual Kunz Family Reunion. The kids always seem to really enjoy those and I had a good time catching up with my girly cousins.

One thing I've got to do better with from here on out is making certain that Hollie is getting some reading in. Taylor naturally loves to read, so I've never had to prompt him. But Hollie I have to beg and plead for her to pick up a book. The Family Fun Center here in Brigham is doing a summer reading program. If they read 20 minutes/20 days out of the month they can go bowl a game for free. That's like a 2 for 1 special for me!! :) Reading time and entertainment as the end result. What are your tips for getting in the reading time? I'm as much to blame because we don't have any sort of a schedule for summer and so before I know it, it's bedtime again and no reading has been done.

My cousin Sunshine came over to my house and Lindsay's house and gave us a ton of ideas for decorating and miscellaneous projects we could do. She has a natural knack for those sorts of things and I had a great time with her here! In an upcoming post I'm going to list some of the major things that stood out with each room that she suggested.

Little by little I'm getting some things accomplished in our home. I have a lot of things I want to do, but I get extremely overwhelmed because there are so many that I don't know where I want to start. :) Anyone who knows me well, knows this is an everyday occurrence.

Thanks so much to those of you who humor me and actually read my craziness. Bravo to you!!

Job Chart Dilemma

Why can't I decide on a job chart and USE IT?!! Seriously you have no idea how many hours I've spent looking for various job chart ideas and trying to implement my own. I keep telling my kids it's coming but being the perfectionist that I am, I can't come up with the perfect thing.

How do you setup your job charts? I'm debating on putting my house into zones and assigning them a specific zone for the week that they are responsible to help with or do I just assign different jobs each day? And what kinds of things do I assign, because I don't know if on that particular day the job is going to need to be done. I know I know, stop analyzing. But seriously, this has been something I've been working on for like a year now and still nothing concrete. Here's a picture of Taylor and Hollie's room charts that I came up with a while ago (of course we're not using it).

I thought these job charts were so ingenious of me. They have velcro on the backs of the pieces so they can move it from the 'Need to Do' to 'I did it'! But it's still this daily job thing that's holding up the whole job chart process. Please help me out!!!!

Updated- "My Bug List"

Ok. I'm tired of carrying these crazy 'to-do' lists in my head and things I want to buy or do in my house. I'll see something and think, "Oh, I need to add that to the list." It's DRAINING ME!!! So...I'm going to keep an ongoing bug list of things that need to be done and the approximate amount of time and/or $$ it will take to do it.

These are listed in no particular order, just making a record of projects and purchase so I can start tackling some of them.


Projects (if they're in red- they've been completed)

1. Finish sanding the molding around the door and paint it
2. Go through the totes of clothes in shed. Get rid of all of the smaller stuff that isn't for Kambri to grow into.
3. Tear down border in kitchen
4. Get kitchen drawers fixed
5. Take down outside Christmas lights (pathetic I know. Shaun wants to leave them up for next year!)
6. Decide what/how many old windows I need for craft projects
7. Nail down a job chart and USE IT!!
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Purchases

1. New windows- They're beautiful!! :)
2. New blinds for upstairs windows
3. Vinyl fence (I can dream for now...)


Stay tuned. There are plenty more to come.