Motivation

So after are wonderful vacation came to an end, I had a ton of stuff on my agenda to get done.

• Laundry-ick! It never really ends, but after essentially 8 days of my washer not in use, it was time! Thankfully I have an extra large washer and dryer set and I think I only ended up doing 5 loads, and 2 of them were the sleeping bags that we took on vacation with us. CHECK!
• Get pictures form the vacation blogged about and uploaded.(Hope you enjoyed them, if you haven't seen them scroll down on the home page!) CHECK!
• De-clutter and wipe down the counters and make my sink shiny again. Again something that is always a battle here, but with the unpacking a lot things were just set aside to be dealt with later. CHECK!
• Vacuum and swiffer the floors.  I think half of the beach came home with us! CHECK!
• Install the under counter garbage thingy (so technical I know) CHECK!--see below
• Try to make the entryway feel more put together, tied into the rest of the house and find homes for picture frames that need to be up. CHECK!--see below

There really is a never ending list of things that I want to get done, like painting the upstairs hallway that was drawn on with markers and boogerized (like that word?!) by Diesel, maybe switching the boys rooms (I know it will be a big project, and that I should have gone with my gut to put the big boys together in the bigger room to begin with, but the little guys said they wanted to room together), make the yard all pretty with some flowers and plants....ok the list could go on and on.

Lets see what I did get done!

We had some extra space in this kitchen that I haven't been using, and we so happened to have a fancy garbage pull that I used when we were in NJ...so instead of waiting for my handyman to install it I went ahead and just got ur done! So I started with pulling out the little halfshelf.

Reassembled the wire racks that hold the pails.

Made sure it fit and sled in and out and didn't bump into the cupboards.

Get ready I got use the drill!

I remeasured and made sure that it was in straight and off to the left a bit to allow for the door. And then wiggled into the cabinet and screwed the rack in.

I grabbed on of those bungee cords to secure the bag, one of the pitfalls to the system is that if you don't the bag will fall in. I need to track down the second garbage tote, but for now the box of bags will go right behind it. Yeah! No more huge garbage tote in the laundry room taking up space and we already had it so it cost me nothing! If you would like to install one they are super easy to do and and we got ours at Lowes for around $50, we usually use the front one for garbage and the back one for recycling.

Next up was this project, don't fool yourself it was worse before I took the picture, I just hung the mirror up that had been leaning on top and had "junk" tossed on the top too that needed to find some new homes.

Bam! Picture frames filling up some of the height, we have really high ceilings, and some knick-knacks found a home. We use that oval pottery bowl for incoming mail and used some old hardcover books to give some more height and add a little color.

It now ties-in with some of our other treasures that I had already hung up and I think it make our entry a little bit more inviting. Not that it is perfect, but it is definitely better then before!

Some cute pictures of N while I was working on the projects. He loves his trains! He also sat and watched the Tinkerbell movie with his favorite stuffies, something the other boys would not have done (:

Usually after a vacation you feel like you need another one, this time I have felt recharged and ready to accomplish some stuff around here. Or maybe it was the dip in the Waimea Falls, which is thought to have healing powers and energy. Or maybe it is the beautiful spring weather that has helped, I just hope to keep it going and keep moving forward with some projects.