Making Your Home a Haven

Today we are joining Crystal over at Biblical Womanhood in her Making Your Home a Haven Challenge. We are going to take a different approach to this today. We have some beautiful weather today, so we're heading out. We won't mess up the house when we're not here. Seriously, sometimes I think your home is a lot happier when you can get out on just do something fun together. Since we have gorgeous weather and we're rowing Owl Moon from Five in a Row we are so excited to be seeing an owl in person today. We'll also enjoy the sun on our faces and the wind in our hair. We're making our home a haven by having the inhabitants enjoy a fun day together. If you're blessed with wonderful weather take your children out and enjoy it. Tomorrow when the weather is nasty (like it's suppose to be here) then you can work on that pile of papers.

Making Your Home a Haven Monday: Pick a Drawer!

Today I'm joining Crystal over at Biblicalwomanhood and picking a drawer or dresser in the house to clean out and reorganize. I'm going to do the children's dresser today. Things aren't bad in there and when I learn how to posts pictures I will. My dear children put their own clothes away in their drawers. They are 5 and 3 so things aren't perfect and could use a little straightening. Plus I'll take out whatever we're not using much.

My tips for keeping children's clothes organized is this: I mainly hang my children's clothes that are nicer and that they wear regularly. When I hang them up I match them into outfits. Even if I didn't purchase them as an outfit, I match them up nicely. Before I was so overrun with clothes that weren't getting worn, just because we had them. Now if they don't serve a purpose or they don't have something to match they're gone to the Goodwill to hopefully help another family.

Pajamas, socks, undies, tights, and play clothes all go in a drawer. Again they are matched up when they're put in there. If we have a sock that comes out of the dryer without a match it just gets laid on top of the other socks (not buried), so when it comes through the next load it's easy to find. Hope some of those things help you with keeping your dear children's clothes organized.