Organizing from the inside out.

Lately it seems that all I have been doing is cleaning, organizing, and running. Every now and then my blogger world enters my mind and quickly escapes with not even an idea. Today as I was cleaning my very "lived in" home I decided to write about what I do best ..... organizing. I know there are ladies out there who check in once in awhile and I know that yes even you men sometimes lend a helping hand. My question today is what gets your house cleaning butt going? For me I find that I really have to be in the mood to clean. The sad part is since cleaning is a daily chore around here and since I even find myself doing it as an extra income, foul mood or not it has to be done. My trick is comfy clothes and loud music. I am actually contemplating making a cleaning playlist. The one I am going from now is great until It gets to the slow stuff.

Another trick I have just recently discovered is plaques, cubbies and hooks. We have a message chalk board in our kitchen right above our kitchen table. The message changes often with things from "have a good day", to Prayer and table setting charts. One thing that always gets lost in our house is library books and mitts and tuques. My solution ...... A 3 section organizer from Ikea so each kid gets his and her section. A framed piece of artwork that has each child's library day on it gets the books back to school on time and 3 hooks for each child's back pack. Simple solutions for simple organization.

I can not forget to include a yummy recipe I made up and one that I found.

Carrot Surprise Smoothies.

2 cups of carrot's (best straight from garden)
2 small vanilla yougurts
1 cup frozen berries
1 large banana

Throw your 2 cups of carrots in a juicer. Add the carrot juice and all other ingredients into blender and whip up a smoothie surprise.

Our kids love these. In fact today when I gave them frozen juice they whined because they wanted carrot juice.

What to do with the left over carrot stuff from the juicer?

Carrot muffins. You can find a great recipe at www.feastandfamine.com/carrot_muffins They are so yummy that you can't stop at just one.

Ask anyone, when your house is clean and bellies are fed. You feel better on the outside.