The Ornament

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Thursday Joshua was very excited for me to open the folder he brings home from school every day. Inside was a thick piece of paper, decorated and stapled together. “Merry Christmas Mom and Dad” he had written on the outside. I opened it up to find an ornament he had made for our tree with his school picture in it.

*Sniff*

I got a little misty.

My mom has an ornament of me like this, only it’s my first grade picture, and I knew how much she cherished it.

And now, I know why.

My baby is now a big kindergarten guy, and he made that for our tree, for his mom and dad, and he was so proud of it, and it’s just…it’s a treasure.

And I, ladies and germs, am a hopelessly sentimental old lady.

But look what I have to be sentimental over! HE MADE ME AN ORNAMENT WITH HIS PICTURE ON IT!!! How could I not melt?

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Giveaway a Day: Carolina Pad’s Simply Chic Collection


Carolina Pad’s Simply Chic collection

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As I mentioned in our Holiday Gift Guide Mom Edition, I love office supplies. Yes, I know I’m a dork. But the Simply Chic line from Carolina Pad makes my obsession slightly less dorky, because they are so cute! And since I am all about brightening up cubicles or damp, dark basement offices (not that I know anything about either. *ahem*), I am excited about today’s giveaway.

Today you have the opportunity to win the following items:
The Simply Chic laptop tote.
Simply-Chic Laptop Tote

The Simply Chic padfolio (which I am in love with).
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AND the Simply Chic File Folders.
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Here’s how to enter:

1) Leave a comment on this post telling us your best organizational tip OR your worst cubicle story.
2) Tweet about this giveaway on twitter and/or post it on your Facebook wall. Then leave a separate comment with your tweet/FB URL.
3) Subscribe to our feed and leave a comment telling us you did or already do.

Random.org will pick a lucky winner on Saturday, December 19th.

Happy Holidays!!

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Putting Away the Loot

Christmas is past (by fifteen days), a new year has begun, and I’m…stuck in a living room with twice as much crap in it as it had before. You see, my problem with the post-Christmas clean-up isn’t putting away the tree, the ornaments, or the stockings. That’s a snap.

(Because my husband does it.)

My problem is: Where do I put all this new STUFF? Specifically, all my kids’ new stuff. Like, the FIVE new board games Joshua received:

board games = clutter

Or Sophie’s new posse (it’s a real tough bunch. You do NOT want to mess with Soph and her crew):

Sophie's Posse

And then, there are the toys that are actually more like pieces of furniture. Exhibit A, Joshua’s (Christmas dream come true) Fisher Price GeoTrax set:

GeoTrax -Joshua's Christmas wish come true

Exhibit B: Sophie’s Leap Frog learning table (which she adores!):

sophie loves it. but it takes up space!

I’m throwing a baby shower for a friend of mine Saturday (if she doesn’t have the baby today. ‘Cause she was having contractions all day Thursday. Squeeze those legs together Megan!), so I am sitting here pondering where to put all of this new stuff that Santa brought, cause really, everysinglecarfromcarsmovie and all of Sophie’s posse are not invited to the shower. Aside from just throwing it all in the kids’ rooms until the shower’s over, I don’t have a clue!

My post-Christmas clean-up? It’s still not done! But it will be by Saturday! How about yours? What’s your biggest Christmas clean-up hang-up?

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By the way, this post is part of a Blog Blast sponsored at Parent Bloggers Network and Right@Home. I like to visit Right@Home to print coupons for some of my favorite SC Johnson products (like Glade candles. ALSO Emily’s favorite.) but the site also has great cleaning and organization tips and yummy recipes too! I’m headed over there now to see if they can solve all my problems for me, and you should too!

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