1/2 the Mass to 1/2 the Mess - Day 1 - Clothes

Ok, So I went through millions (or so it seemed) of clothes yesterday, I had to go through Alissa's, Anthony's, & My clothes, and set Eric's aside so that he can go through those. I didn't finish completely but I had to go to bed, so I wanted to at least post what I've done so far and what I will do today.

I started in the closet:

Before:	After:

I still have a few things in there to get rid of in there, but I need help from my fashion consultant (Eric)

Next I went through my dresser:

Before:	After:

I know that it looks bare in there now, but most of the clothes that I prefer to wear are in the dirty clothes pile. Which is what I did next, I gathered all the dirty clothes and sorted those only putting back the clothes that I want to keep.

My Beginning Pile:	My Giving Away Pile:

Next I went into Alissa's Room and went through and organized her clothes, I did this about a month ago, so there wasn't a lot to get rid of.

Before:	After:

I then went through all of Anthony's clothes and had to get rid of all of his 3-6 months clothes because he's grown out of them.

His Clothes organized:	Clothes going to storage:

I didn't finish going through our linens, and these are the clothes that I still need to go through:


Here are Eric's clothes that he needs to go through:


The Clothes I'm giving away:


And Finally, Alissa and Anthony keeping busy while I sort clothes. I later found Alissa dumping all of our Chocolate milk mix on the floor, luckily Eric walked through the door a minute later and cleaned up the mess.

Clean House Challenge

Ok, I'm going to start a new challenge, and am going to need you to keep me accountable. I'm going to start out with:

1/2 the Mass to 1/2 the Mess Challenge - I'm going to get rid of 1/2 of our:

• Clothes
• Toys
• Dishes
• Garage
• Random Areas, such as paperwork, books, etc...

I'm going to take one day for each area, so by saturday I will be done with this part of the challenge. The goal of this is to get rid of stuff, so it will be easier to keep the house clean. Then I will take 1 or 2 days to get the house completely clean.

Next part of the challenge will be to start a habit. It takes 30 days to create or break a habit, so I will take 30 days to create a habit of picking up the house daily at the same time. This is the part I struggle with, so every day I will blog about it and also create a new rule for living cleaner, such as put trash straight into the trash can.

After I complete the challenge I'm going to decorate my house, that will be my reward for living cleaner.

Felt Food - My Newest Hobby

I've started a new hobby, that I really enjoy! I'm making Felt Food Toys. I know Alissa will love them and they are cute and easy to make and the supplies are cheap!! This is my first try, It was fun, I did these ones by hand using the blanket stitch, which I just learned and have gotten much better at. Next I'm going to make a donut using my sewing machine, It will go much quicker, but I like the way the blanket stitch looks, so we'll see how it looks on the sewing machine.

Workout

I did my first workout today, It was not bad, I did pushups, squats, situps (crunchs). I'm a little sore from my test yesterday and probably should've waited a day to let my muscles rest, but I was too excited to get started. I'll probably do it again on sunday or monday.

Pee-Pee in the Pottay!! Pee-Pee in the Pottay!!

So Alissa has been potty training her dolls lately... so I figured it was time to start potty training her. Not that I haven't been trying, I've tried everything, till the other day I told her if she went in the potty, I'd buy her whatever she wanted. Then I remembered she wanted skates, so I told her we would go buy skates if she went. Then I made her sit on the potty for a long time, eventually she went and was so excited. We went out and got her skates, and she just loved them. Then she went back into her pull ups for a week and a half... Until today, I printed out a potty chart for her, and explained it to her, I told her if she went she'd get a sticker and candy, and then we do a potty dance, Plenty of rewards... She's gone five times today, and just loves it. She hasn't gone poo poo in the potty yet, or told me she needs to go. Of course, I haven't given her the chance, I just make her go a lot, and she pretty much just goes on command, if she can, she'll go. So the next step will be poo poo in the potty.

Here she is with her chart, She has Nemo stickers that she loves to use, she's very proud of her chart. I got it from this website: Potty Training Concepts

Here she is on her potty! And below is the potty dance:

Sit up and squats challenge TOO!!

So we decided to do the sit up and squat challenge at the same time as the push up challenge. I did my initial tests and could do 25 sit ups, and 50 squats. I guess my legs are the strongest, even though they often feel weak. can't wait to start the challenges tomorrow.

100 Push Up Challenge

So, I'm going to try to do the one hundred push up challenge with my friend Nicole I took the initial test and was able to do 3 almost good form pushups, so I will be starting at the lowest level. I'm starting the challenge tomorrow. I'm supposed to do it 3 days a week. If anybody else wants to join us, it will be very fun.