tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322986791834575652024-03-06T00:35:59.904-06:00creative life designsadding beauty and functionality to everyday lifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-77321583244144502282015-06-08T07:54:00.000-05:002015-06-08T07:54:00.178-05:00Fifteen minutes of crafting {polka dot clothespins}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Before I left school for the year I quickly decorated clothespins to use this fall. My first year I covered them in decorative duct tape. That was a pain. This year <strike>I just wrote</strike> had Niki write my kids' names on them in colored sharpie. That wasn't near enough fun. So for next year I decided I was going to paint them polka dotted! </div>
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It was super simple! I used regular paint from school and an unused pencil.</div>
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I made sure to make some of my dots whole and some going off the edges so they looked like "real" polka dots. I let them dry for an hour or two then flipped them over to do the other side.</div>
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*Side note* I had them numbered with colored sharpies before I did the polka dots. My plan is to reuse them, but we'll see how they hold up. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-51267452611934802642015-06-03T09:40:00.000-05:002015-06-04T08:01:56.485-05:00Goals for JuneThis has been a pretty crazy year for me, but things are starting to come to a new normal and fall into place. So with things settling in, I have some major goals for June and the rest of the summer. I just finished my second year of teaching and got my "real" standard license- so I'm good to go there. That means it's time to make some changes in the classroom now that I feel a little bit more like I know what I'm doing and start on my masters! I have big plans for both this summer!<br />
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Classroom goals:<br />
1. I MUST create a true reading nook- that means books move, another rug comes in, lamp comes in, and this is all in a different location in my <strike>tiny</strike> miniature room.<br />
I love the idea of adding a functional little bench like this one <a href="http://briebrieblooms.com/milk-crate-book-storage-and-reading-bench/" target="_blank">{here}</a><br />
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2. Relocate teacher desk to be less obtrusive and perhaps a little more minimalist action in that area as well.<br />
3. New rug! Something bright, colorful, and cheap. Hopefully I can score something when dorm room specials start.<br />
4. Get the tech people to fix my horrible cord situation!<br />
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Apartment goals:<br />
1. Redeocrate/Rearrange bedroom. I feel like my bed should be in front of the window now. I was lucky enough to have my great aunt donate two dressers to me. Free = the best!<br />
2. Move in new table. Sell or store current table.<br />
3. Find summer home for Lola (my classroom guinea pig)<br />
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Personal Goals:<br />
1. Start master's classess<br />
2. Run 15K with Niki in September- this will mean training these asthmatic lungs all summer.<br />
3. Figure out how to meal plan and stick with it over the summer!<br />
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What are you planning to do in June or this summer??<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-35666202795065993362015-04-29T06:30:00.000-05:002015-04-29T06:30:03.105-05:00Fifteen Minutes of crafting {shower decorations}I recently volunteered to be in charge of a bridal shower for a family friend. So I went to pinterest for some inspiration. Here's the ideas I wanted to use as a launching point for making my decorations. <br />
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I love the simplicity of these jars! I plan to use <strike>fake </strike>artificial flowers to fill my mason jars.</div>
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and here is my gifts and party <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/shannon_chaffin/gifts-and-party/" target="_blank">pinterest board.</a><br />
I love these jars too! Too bad I have tea lights and not floating candles, but I love how they look! </div>
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I didn't and didn't intend to exactly copy either of these, they were just inspiration.</div>
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I had some clearance burgandy tealights and a few bigger burgandy candles and bought some burlap, ribbon, lace, and pennants and I was set.</div>
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We got our materials and trusty glue gun and set to work wrapping our mason jars in the burlap/lace combo. Worksite: Mom & Dad's kitchen table. Super neat crafter, I am not.</div>
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The burlap with lace ribbon was purchased at Michaels, it was a little pricey at $11.99 per roll, but luckily it was on sale!<br />
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I started my momma on making pretty bows, because she makes them quite well, and I unfortunately cannot make them at all.<br />
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We planned for 8 round tables, and 3 rectangle tables. I don't plan to put jars on two of the rectangle tables, so we are doing 9 jars.<br />
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We borrowed some sort of snips from my brother to cut the artificial flowers and it worked like a charm.<br />
It was making me a little crazy that I didn't measure the placement of the burlap on each of the jars, but I went with the theory that they weren't going to be near each other so it would have to be okay.<br />
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My momma also gets credit for the floral arrangements. I, on the other hand, mostly just rock the glue gun.<br />
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I think we worked for probably an hour and had a nice little assembly line going on.<br />
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Little brother, the photographer of this event, forced Momma to pose with her wonderful creation. She did a great job with the flowers!!<br />
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A garden of fakies :)<br />
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We made a bigger jar for the bride's table.<br />
Added lace to the large candles.<br />
8 jars for guest tables.<br />
Decorated an M to display next to their engagement photo and guest book.<br />
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I am super jazzed with how these decorations turned out! We didn't spend a ton of money and didn't have to spend much more than an hour working on them. Thanks for all your help, Mom!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-42904968000751801522015-04-24T06:30:00.000-05:002015-06-04T08:00:30.396-05:00friday favesWe're checking in today to share our five favorite things from this week.<br />
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1. The weather is absolutely amazing. Spring is the best, even if we have crazy allergies and look like crap and sneeze like crazy, we still love it!<br />
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2. Niki's planner is looking extra lovely these days with her new fascination with stickers and washi tape!<br />
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3. Field Trips! Jeans mid week, an afternoon outside...I mean come on! So what if the day was spent at the landfill? The kids loved it!<br />
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4. Taking Friday's off! We are all taking today off to head to Faith's Dance competition. <br />
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5. Frixon Markers! Niki ordered them on Amazon but didn't love them so I got them and I love them for special occasions in my plan book! Find them on Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ECLQHQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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So after almost two years of teaching my classroom looks totally different, in a good way, I think. This counter acts as my launching area. The bright colored baskets hold my supplies that I need for each day. We run a six day rotation so my baskets are numbered and labeled for the day of the week. My teacher planner sits on the counter in front of my baskets to make sure I stay on track. Things that we accomplish get checked off, if we don't get to them, they get highlighted to remind me to try to fit them in later in the week.<br />
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Our rules are displayed on the cabinets above all of my baskets. These were a free download from an adorable blog that I can't exactly remember the name of now...</div>
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When I started this wall had placed that were labeled for each child to have their own space to display work. This past summer I decided to hang a "clothesline" and clip work to it with clothespins. This cuts way down on the time it takes to hang up student work to display.</div>
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My door frame has a collection of the letters we have learned, with the newest letter on the bottom for the kids to touch and say on their way out the door. On the door I have our "I can" statements but not "I can" statements like the common core requires. These are TK I can's. They say things like say my ABC's, use scissors, and count to 100. You can also see in the corner where we store our rest mats.<br />
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Our door also houses our morning routine reminder, behavior clip chart, daily schedule, and BEE ticket pockets (we are a PBIS school). My behavior chart was a free download from the same place as my classroom rules, that I still cannot remember. (sorry).</div>
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We also added a good old fashioned classroom whiteboard since we use those a lot in classrooms. Thanks for noticing it's shiny newness :)</div>
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Our aquatic frogs live in the corner above some of our centers and free choice activities, along with some of our stuffies. <br />
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The left side is more free choice activities and the right is more center activities, but some are interchangeable. I even have some kids chose to do a center activity during free choice time!</div>
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Our calendar is now located on the wall above all of our center storage. Not ideal, I know. I'm working on a better solution for next year. But for now, this is what it is?<br />
Why did she move her calendar to such a bizarre place you ask?<br />
Oh to make room for this friend, of course!<br />
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I had to loose to sections of shelving and put it in the strangest location, but still worth it!<br />
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My classroom library has also expanded into a whole reading nook. I bought a fluffy bath mat and a pillow I found on sale during college move in time. I have big plans for my reading nook for next year. *fingers crossed it works out in reality the way it does in my head*<br />
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My desk area is now in the back corner and is basically a hot mess. My teacher books you can see are lined up in nice big baskets from the Dollar Tree. Our letter people pictures below the alphabet line get filled in as we learn each new letter person.<br />
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And my front door got a new bulletin board set for the beginning of this year and I have decided to leave it that way and change out either side of the door seasonally. Our monthly calendar is on the chart paper.<br />
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Meet the teacher night had finally come and my room was a ready as it was going to be....<br />
Bring on the TK'ers!<br />
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My shelves were filled with all the goodies I had scavenged for all summer. I was under the mistaken impression that my shelves were going to stay looking like this. <br />
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And here's the back corner of the room. Empty shelves, really? I know. Those were left empty on purpose to store the kids' rest mats. <br />
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Here is what my calendar area looked like at the beginning of the year. It looks so empty in this picture, but don't worry it looks nothing like this today.<br />
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My sister and my nephew were working hard to get my BEE folders ready to go for meet the teacher night so that the kids would have something on their desks when they came. I decided to use sort of a "BEE binder light" for my kids. I didn't think they needed a full BEE binder since they weren't reading and I used a simple behavior tracking method, so I went with the BEE folder.</div>
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This banner was a free download I found on pinterest and hung it with yarn, it is still hanging today.<br />
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And here's what it looked like from the door way in it's final stages. I scrounged a ridiculous white board easel from the basement and stole it to use in my room since i had no other whiteboard. I had a scavenger hunt on the tables for the kids to look around the room. My desk was so clean and empty- if only it still looked like that.<br />
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It was a family affair to put together my classroom. We all spent an entire weekend putting it together the weekend before school started because I wasn't able to get into my room any sooner. Yes, you read that right. We put my room together, as best we could, in one weekend. It almost had me breaking out in hives! <br />
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Some of my decor I bought on sale that summer and some things came from the good old Dollar Tree. I also didn't get my laminating that I had sent out back until that Friday and I had to go pick it up. So as we were putting things up and getting everything set, someone was always cutting laminating. <br />
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My dad even had to take a little nap break in the middle of our long working weekend.<br />
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My birthday bulletin board was turned into a bulletin board out of nothing, I just framed out a space on the wall. <br />
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I went with a "no theme" theme, which really is no theme at all. It wasn't in the budget to go out and by all matchy matchy things for the entire room, so it went with bright colors for everything, with a few polka dots and chevron things thrown in there. <br />
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I had tons of garage sale and donated games, toys, and manipulatives...or so I thought until I got them into my room and my shelves still looked bare.<br />
My frog numbers were also a sale purchase and didn't really match my theme of no theme, but the price was right. <br />
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We start the year with nursery rhymes, so that's what went up on my otherwise empty cabinet doors. I got those on sale that summer also. Our daily schedule and clip chart are on the side of our classroom door that we don't use. Those were both from Teachers Pay Teachers, one free and the other a purchase. They match the classroom rules that you can see on the upper cabinets. <br />
The color cars on the wall are Carson Dellosa and were another sale purchase. The rectangle shape posters are from Dollar Tree.<br />
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By the end of the weekend my room was looking almost ready for kids. As ready as it was going to be.<br />
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Check back for what it looked like for meet the teacher night and what my room looks like today.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-57970984960145885762015-03-25T06:30:00.000-05:002015-03-25T06:30:00.663-05:00Setting up my classroom { the move in}Before I could actually start moving in I did some work at my apartment, specifically on the lawn. I bought a cheap rug from Menards- the indoor/outdoor type. And a few colors of spray paint. Because new teachers are b-r-o-k-e.<br />
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I used painters tape to mark the lines using a super scientific magazine as a measuring device. To vary the size of the lines I just used the magazine either horizontal or vertical. </div>
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I thought that I could just throw some newspapers down on the sidewalk and spray paint my millions of tubs and then got real and realized that was going to be way more work and decided to grab some painter's plastic and go that way. (see below) </div>
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In between rounds of spray painting I was running things through the laminator as fast as I could. I ran full sheet things I wanted to be a little thicker myself, at home, and sent everything else to our AEA to be laminated on the big machine.</div>
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Here is what I ended up doing with my tubs, this was way easier and allowed me to just keep moving on to the next thing. I used dish tubs from Walmart and my stool was $4 at Goodwill.</div>
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When I was finally given the go ahead to move into my room we gathered a whole car-full of things and headed out! After everything was brought in, here's what we had:</div>
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This doesn't really seem all that much better than when it was a library, but we were hopefull :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-77378801939799518602015-03-18T06:30:00.000-05:002015-03-18T06:30:01.841-05:00Setting up my classroom {the beginning}We last left you with the news that I got a job...and then the blog came to a crashing halt because well, life got in the way. And so now like a school year and a half later we're bring you the transformation of my TK classroom. From library to classroom in 3 days.<br />
Here's what it looked like when I walked in the first day:<br />
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Our BFF Amanda came to town! It was so great to see her. She lives on Cape Cod which is way cooler than Iowa. Right? Anyway, we miss her like crazy so we love when she comes back home! </div>
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Here's a snapshot of her and Niki at the wedding they went to.<br />
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Also, Niki and I have both committed to going back to school this fall, October to be exact. We are getting our Sped and Early Childhood endorsements! Woot. I think. </div>
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From Shannon: <br />
I have been swamped with Etsy orders! I love creating things to help people's lives run smoother! But it got a little bit crazy this week.<br />
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In other news, I GOT MY FIRST TEACHING JOB! I am over the moon excited! I will be teaching transitional kindergarten in the same district that I've been in the past two years. Did I mention that I am like ridiculously giddy? My classroom was formerly the elementary library which is still currently residing in my room. So I cannot even begin to move in until the library moves out. It makes my OCD self a little bit twitchy but it gives me more time to spend on Pinterest.</div>
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The kids have had swimming lessons, sports camps, birthday parties and just all around busyness. I just got their school supplies list and am starting the master list and scoping out the sales.<br />
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Tim has been working nonstop so the kids and I have to entertain ourselves and no fun vacation :(<br />
Now I'm working on getting ready for back to school (for me and the kids). Get ready for some organization and decluttering.<br />
Tim and I are also embarking on a remodeling project for our house. We remodeling the living areas a few years ago and are now remodeling the sleeping areas. We have a crazy old farmhouse and it is not ready for all of the business we have. :)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-24017390285633486892013-06-24T08:30:00.000-05:002013-06-24T08:30:01.571-05:00My Second 5K!I did my second 5K this weekend. It was in the small town we live in, Kingsley. This weekend was Kingsley Days. <a href="http://kingsleyrunners.com/Kingsley_Runners_Club/Welcome.html" target="_blank">The Kingsley Running Club</a> hosted a 5K around town.<br />
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This was my second 5K. My first without my sister there for support! Eek! If you know me, you know I don't like new things and I don't like to do things by myself. I'm not going to lie, I almost didn't go. But I knew too many people who were doing it and expected me to be there. Plus, they have a cool dry-fit t-shirt. Races are all about the shirts, right? (and the medal, duh)<br />
I finished in 39:49. I didn't have any expectations. I hadn't be training very hard, and it rained. THE WHOLE TIME. I couldn't use my phone, so I don't know my splits, but it renewed the fact that I do want to keep running. I still hate it. But I am constantly amazed at what my body can do.<br />
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This is just my training schedule. I am not a trainer, nor have I ever ran more than 3 miles. I am just flying by the seat of my pants.<br />
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1. I have been cutting out laminated goodies like a mad fiend this week. Woot for fun new things for Niki's kid-o's and my tutoring girls.<br />
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2. Faith had her last two softball games last Wednesday night and did great! It was so nice to go watch as a family!<br />
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3. I , Shannon, went home for a day and had a little family bonding with the parents and little bro.<br />
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4. The big kids went to Skill School this week and Jayce and I got to spend tons of one-on-one time together. They all had a blast last night at Family Fun Night. I'm so glad we found such a great church for our kids too!<br />
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5. I (Niki) have been training for my 5K this weekend. I think I can finish it. I even went out for a late night run last night. I can make it 2 miles, and I'm hoping adrenaline will kick in and I can finish strong! <br />
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We are busy updating the planner and we will *hopefully* be posting about it this week! Be ready, it's pretty awesome! <br />
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I have been a little MIA lately, so I thought I'd fill you in on what I've been up to while I have been neglecting the poor blog.</div>
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I went home for a day to visit the fam and somehow ended up making supper and baking cookies!</div>
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I also did a little Iphone surgery with my "little" brother. It was a very loving event :)<br />
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I have also been cutting out things that I had laminated like crazy! 86 feet so far! And that my friends is a whole lot of cutting!!<br />
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Lots of things for my tutoring kids this summer and lots of fun things for Niki's kidlets too! I also scored a lot of awesome stuff on our huge sale at work the other day. wa-hoo for mega sales!</div>
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Also while I was home I snagged a stash of teacher stuff to use for my tutoring kids. I seriously bring a whole new meaning to the term pack rat! I have got to learn how to get rid of things!!</div>
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I have also been doing a lot of reading of teacher books. I have my reading endorsement but haven't really had a good chance to use it, so I did a little studying after meeting my tutoring girls and figuring out what we needed to work on. Yeah, I took notes, don't judge.</div>
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I have also been hard at work on Etsy orders and working on an update to our planner at the same time. I'm feeling more busy now than I did during the school year!!<br />
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I have also been running like crazy! Niki wants to do a warrior dash and a 15k so this girl has got some serious training to do! Even got a new tank and I loooove it!!!</div>
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Hello all! Here we are to share our Friday Five and link up with the lovely Lauren.</div>
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1. I made these pretties for a customer this week! I love the cheery spring colors!</div>
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2. Shannon is doing some tutoring this summer so of course a fun tutoring bag is required! It's a 31 bag and it is jam packed full of teachery things!<br />
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3. We all went to lunch at Culver's to celebrate Carter's bravery at the dentist! He wanted lunch with Aunt Shan as his treat (heart flutters).<br />
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4. This face. I can hardly stand it. Also, it's totally fine to drink your ice cream when you are just three :)<br />
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5. I sent a care package of sort to our friend Amanda in Massachusetts. She is training for a half marathon, that silly lady. (remember, she is the one who guest posted about her fitness plan, <a href="http://creativelifedesigns1.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-fitness-guest-post.html" target="_blank">here</a>)<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-45463457050333392042013-06-12T08:36:00.001-05:002013-06-12T08:36:48.636-05:00Summer DaysLast summer I was out of commission. I was doing chemo until the middle of July and then I was in recovery mode until school started. The summer before is just a blur. I don't remember making the most of any of the summer with my kids. I vow to change that this year.<br />
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There are tons of inspiration on Pintrest (which is obviously the first place I check). I went with something like this, but changed it to meet our needs.<br />
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I decided to do a weekly "schedule" for us to loosely follow. This way my kids know what to expect for the next week. And I know how to plan for the week. Obviously this won't work every day of every week, but its nice to have an idea of what types of things we want to do every week. This is what our weekly schedule looks like:<br />
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Monday: Make something (crafty, food, whatever)<br />
Tuesday: Library Time & check out books, read somewhere new<br />
Wednesday: Wacky Water Wednesday: Go to the pool, water balloon fight, take a shower :)<br />
Thursday: Kid's Cook<br />
Friday: Field Trip (I try to schedule my appointments for Friday, so their field trip is sometimes to the babysitter) (don't judge, they love her)<br />
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But Wait! That is not a beautifully printed, laminated, framed and gold leafed schedule.<br />
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It is just a work in progress. We can't commit to anything until the week before and sometimes that day. Today we went to Library Time and the pool because tomorrow may not be a good pool day.<br />
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If I'm feeling fancy, I will make a beautiful, pinable printable, but for now, its all in my head. :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is my obligatory photo. :) Clockwise: I put a lock on my phone so now all Carter can do is take pictures without me unlocking it, Jayce - isn't he cute?, the kids and Aunt Shan building GeoTrax, and Carter again. <br />
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Check back next week to see what I am doing to beat the "I'm bored's"...<br />
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What are you doing to keep your kids busy this summer? Any tips for making the most of my summer at home with my kids?<br />
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Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695021018542406947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-18310585370762302442013-06-10T12:27:00.001-05:002013-06-10T12:27:44.348-05:00Finishing My Corner cubbies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm back to finish up my new cubbies in the corner that I used to replace my desk. After putting it together and popping it into place I started filling it up. Actually first I started sorting out all the stuff that needed to find a new home in each of the cubbies.</div>
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I grabbed these cubes at Target in the dollar spot. They were $3 each, which was awesome compared to the $6-12 price tag on all the others!<br />
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This little tray made the move from the desk to the new area. I love how it displays all of the cheery colored office supplies.<br />
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And here it is all filled up! I like this soooo much better than that silly glass corner desk. It looks like it actually belongs there and isn't just a desk stuck randomly in the corner of the dining area!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-18229464507443279082013-06-07T14:39:00.001-05:002013-06-07T14:39:15.457-05:00High Five for FridayHello! We have had a crazy busy week, as always. Here is our High Five!<br />
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1. Niki completed TEACCH training this week to help her when working with students with Autism. It was a long 3 days, with tons of information and lots of good ideas to use in the classroom next year.<br />
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2. We are doing a giveaway with LindyLou! Go to her <a href="http://www.lifeoflindylou.com/" target="_blank">blog</a> to find out more information and to be inspired!<br />
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3. The boys had their first t-ball game Sunday. Carter was a rockstar. Jayce, not so much. But he is only 3 1/2. I sometimes have too high of expectations for my children. :)<br />
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4. Niki and Shannon have both been applying for teaching jobs and to go back to school over the last couple weeks. It is very exciting and nerve-wracking! #backtoschool<br />
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5. Faith has been a rock star at softball. She plays coach-pitch and is really learning the game! <br />
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Check out <a href="http://www.thelaurenelizabeth.com/2013/06/high-five-for-friday.html" target="_blank">Lauren's blog</a> and see what everyone else was doing over the last week!<br />
<br />Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695021018542406947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-3125403754685749272013-06-06T10:29:00.000-05:002013-06-06T10:29:13.824-05:00Operation Get It Together continues...Move That Desk!! (clearly that was yelled Ty Pennington style) Next up in my mission to declutter my life, both mentally and physically is the desk area. It's this little disaster in the corner of my kitchen. Awhile ago we basically switched the desk and the dart board. And by we, I mean me. Yep moved that full sized dart board all by myself. But then it left the desk looking all weird in the corner.<br />
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So I decided the desk had to go. I don't think I have sat at it more than 5 times to actually use it as a desk. So there was no great loss as far as desk surfaces go. The obvious lack of storage was probably what lead to its demise. </div>
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Wait three days for boyfriend to move the desk to the garage. We live in an apartment so its not like just moving it out the door, it has to go quite a ways.</div>
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While you are waiting for said boyfriend to move the afore mentioned desk. Go to target and buy a cute little cube-y deal. Bonus points if you score it on sale like I did! Mine is made by Closet Maid, but I don't think the brand really matters for these friends.<br />
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Step 3. After the waiting period has passed and desk has been successfully removed, you put that baby together!! More bonus points if you can do it hillbilly style without a hammer! More points for most creative non-hammer tool used.<br />
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Then we wait, because here at our little blog we are realists and we don't have time to spend 4 hours creating a wonderful new corner area like we would like to. So this is a multi-day, multi-step process. But I am giddy about it already and I haven't even started filling it up yet!! I'm also glad to finally be doing a "real, hands on" project for Operation: Get It Together!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-7742824990865228762013-06-03T16:46:00.001-05:002013-06-03T16:46:43.076-05:00Beginning of the month planning {summer style}My school year (sounds like I'm a middle schooler) schedule is quite a bit different than my (glorious) summer schedule. There will be no waking up at times that begin with a 5 uhthankyouverymuch. And hopefully I will not have to work in multiple towns in the same day. Though, I cannot guarantee that won't happen. <br />
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So here is a peek at my last week weeks. The last week of school was a little crazy especially since we were all hanging out at the hospital from Friday afternoon until Tuesday around noon.<br />
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The first week out of school is still pretty swamped. Babysitting Niki's kidlets Monday through Thursday plus working a couple days and a work meeting....then off to Des Moines for the weekend for a wedding.<br />
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But then finally gaze at this glorious empty week!! (angles sing) I mean really, that baby is empty!! Wa-hoo!!<br />
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So here's June's calendar, the one that we share at home. Not much room for details on this one, just events for both of us are listed.<br />
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My menu calendar stated back in May and I am trying really hard to stick to it! I think it will be easier being home everyday to make "real meals" ya know, the kind you eat with a fork and not out of a paper bag. That's my goal anyway.<br />
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And my weekly cleaning checklist...I'm trying hard to stick to it this summer!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12550762520586141094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-69270593829426139512013-05-31T13:50:00.000-05:002013-05-31T13:50:05.081-05:00High Five for FridayWe have been MIA from High Five for Friday, but we are back in full force. Summer vacation snuck up on us and we went into vacation mode with the blog too! ACK! But, here we are, linking up with Lauren again with our High Five for Friday. Here it goes:<br />
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1. Niki got to go shopping, to the doctor and to get groceries, all by her self! Woot! <br />
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2. New planners are in the works, for us, our mom & brother and eventually you! Woot again! <br />
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3. Shannon flower-ized her apartment. Now that the weather has finally caught up with the calendar, I am all for bringing in some glorious spring colors!<br />
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4. Niki got a couple fun tops and some awesome long and lean tanks from the buckle (our favorite). They should be here the beginning of the week.<br />
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5. Summer ball is in full swing! Faith has already had 2 games and the boys first game is Sunday. Expect pictures. :) Now to recruit Aunt Shan to help!<br />
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<br />Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695021018542406947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-24362283644220813152013-05-30T11:36:00.003-05:002013-05-30T13:07:02.837-05:00Operation: Get it Together version N.2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A big part of Operation: Get it Together for me is getting my children on board with maintaining our household. I have been looking at all different kids of chore charts, online on paper and even apps. But they were all to complicated. I have 3 kids, and several chores that need to be done. I thought about a rotating schedule, but I couldn't really make that work. I thought about switching jobs every week, but didn't really like that either. My kids get bored easily. :)<br />
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I ended up with a Chore Jar. I'm sure there are tons of them all over the internet, and I know I have pinned a few. But I wanted just the things that were important to me right now.<br />
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I decided to go with 3 categories: Daily, Weekly and Extra Credit. Each of the kids has to pick 2 or 3 daily chores a day. They get completed and at the end of the night they are put back in the jar. Each kid gets to pick 1 or 2 weekly chores. They get put back on Sunday night. Extra Credit are things that the kids are not normally expected to do but can do to earn some extra money, or at my discretion. <br />
I had Shannon whip me up some super cute chore chart cards:<br />
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I printed them, and Shannon cut, laminated and cut again. I want them to last for a while.<br />
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Then she made me a super cute label for my container:<br />
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I had planned on putting these in a cute mason jar. But it just didn't work out that way. Shannon raided my shelf of extra storage and found this fun green container from Dollar Tree. I just printed this, cut it out and Mod Podged it on my container.<br />
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Right now we can't find the lid to the container, so there is no picture of that, but used your imagination for now, I will be back to add a picture when I find the lid!<br />
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We have started using it. The kids each pick 3 green chores (daily) and 1 orange (weekly) every day. They love the job of wiping the fridge and freezers, and it pays 50 cents, which they love even more! My fridge has never been this clean. So far, we have done a pretty good job of maintaining our house.<br />
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Look for our customizable chore jar kit in our Etsy shop soon!<br />
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How do you maintain your household? Are your kids doing chores? At what age did you start them? Any helpful hints to get me through this?<br />
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Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695021018542406947noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-55804107062384369382013-05-29T16:05:00.000-05:002013-05-29T16:05:58.304-05:00What I'm working on...Last week I was babysitting Niki's kidlets while she was still in school. So while the kiddos were playing away I was hard at work!<br />
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First on the list is finishing up a customized <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/150684148/customized-life-planner?ref=shop_home_active" target="_blank">life planner</a> for Courtney, a winner of a giveaway that we recently sponsored on another blog. It's adorable! And while making Courtney's planner I decided that our life planner could use a little update for the next year too. So I made up a list of ideas that I'm toying around with.<br />
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We are also thinking about updating a few of the "sets" in the shop. We are thinking the budget documents first. So we are doing a little planning and figuring out what has worked best for us and adjusting them accordingly. And maybe some fun new colors and layouts too??<br />
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What changes or updates would you like to see? Any new documents we should create? Something we should add or change on our life planner??<br />
<br />Nikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01695021018542406947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-732298679183457565.post-46063768201171251192013-05-28T14:30:00.000-05:002013-05-28T14:30:05.554-05:00Operation: Get it Together - Daily Agenda FreebieWe are still here, honest!<br />
I am clearly not getting things done. I decided I needed to bust out our daily agenda and see if it works for me. We are use all of the things we offer, at some time or another. We are also constantly updating our printables. We take comments from readers, customers and friends & family who use our products.<br />
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This is our daily agenda right now, it has to-do, where to be, to eat, who to call, to buy and fitness (including a place to keep track of your water).<br />
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Shannon's initial plan was for it to be laminated and used over and over. However, I like to plan more than one day. I do have a planner, but this is so much more in depth! I have the rest of the week roughly planned out. If things don't get done on one day, they just get moved to the next day. <br />
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So, we are asking for you to click on the link above, download our daily agenda and give us some feedback! Did it work for you? What would you add or take away? Based on your feedback, we will make some changes and put up a new daily agenda for you to try!<br />
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Operation: Get it together continues. Today we are on "pretend Wednesday" but I am including Thursday too, for the sake of not dragging this out too much.<br />
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We don't always have to run the dishwasher everyday. But there are dishes used everyday and that means they need to be rinsed and put in the dishwasher. Sitting in the sink being all nasty is not acceptable. Occasionally a few rinsed dishes will sit in the sink until the next day and I'm okay with that if they are rinsed and not getting crusty. Nothing makes a girl crankier than trying to scrub nasty crusty dishes, right?</div>
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The floors got swept and vacuumed today. We don't have much area to sweep, just a small kitchen and bathroom. But since our kitchen is right inside our door and people are usually still wearing shoes when they walk though, that needs to be swept pretty often. The bathroom usually goes until scheduled days without much needed in between.<br />
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I use a carpet freshener powder before I vacuum. I don't know that it actually does anything beneficial besides making it smell nice, but that's enough for me. The one I use is made by Glade, but I'm sure there are other brands out there.<br />
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Counters and clutter are about the same. I am still working on putting away or finding a new (better) home for at least 3 things each day. It's gonna take me a while at this pace, but I'm hoping once I'm out of school for the summer I can kick some serious clutter tuckus. (read: find something without needing an entire search team)<br />
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Basically the same story for Thursday, I just added in<br />
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I also whipped up another chore chart. I felt like I needed a handy way to track the things that don't need to be done on a certain day, but do need to be done somewhat frequently.<br />
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This allows me to track the chores that need to be done weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly but not necessarily in any particular order or on certain days. I just check off what I do and clean the list off at the appropriate intervals.</div>
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Also on the docket for the week. ATTACK LAUNDRY MONSTER!! It got a little scary for a while, but in the end I won. That empty spot in the middle is where I sat, through two episodes of Law & Order SVU. uhthankyouverymuch, it took forever!! Now I will just stay ahead of it.<br />
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Another project in the kitchen. My freezer got another clean out and reorganization. Actually I was using small trash cans before, but they didn't end up working out as brilliantly as I thought. So I popped in these baskets. The bottom one has meat, the top has potatoes, vegetables and snacks. So far it is working out pretty well.<br />
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