An unexpected job

I wish I could be more organized, I wish I was better at housekeeping and I wish I loved all of it - but I don't really.  I do what I can and I try to find the joy in it and I do have to say that I like it better than I once did.

My husband likes things super un-cluttered!  I often don't see the clutter.  This has lead to both the Tupperware drawer and the pantry to be 'the banes of his existence'.  So once I did a bit of de-cluttering in the pantry and often I do a bit of sorting in the Tupperware drawer, but it is a lot of work and hard for my brain so I don't do it as much as I should.

Well, the other day the pantry fell apart and so I had to finally organize it - check this out!!

 One side of the brackets that held the shelves up fell right off the wall.  Luckily nothing fell off the shelves, because there was tall stuff under the bottom shelf to hold up the whole assembly of them.  I wish I would have taken a picture of the skewed shelves in there before we took out all the food, but this is apparently how much food we have in our pantry - if fills the top of the island and a bunch of the floor!

My oldest daughter wiped all the shelves and so they are super clean - just like when we moved in a year ago!



My awesome husband re-hung the shelves and then I spent the evening, with help from the Princess putting it all back in.  Half empty bags of stuff were put in Tupperware, labeled and other miscellaneous items were sorted together in baskets.  I even took pictures so that we can try to keep it looking like THIS....

It is super awesome!  Now I can hopefully keep it that way!

Astronomy

 So the little girls are studying Astronomy.  I had the hardest time choosing which science to do this year, because Dash is only in Grade 1, and she doesn't have a huge attention span for sitting and writing. 
She has a great work ethic, and is super smart, but sitting still is not her strong suit!
Astronomy is rumored to be the best for younger kids in the Apologia Elementary series, so I chose it.  The extra bonus is that we already owned the text, and so only had to buy the notebook journals (which of course are optional, but help me immensely) and the lab kit.  Obviously the lab kit is optional as well, but the reality is that if I don't have EVERY thing I need for experiments, they just won't get done.  I can't even begin to tell you how many times science has crashed and burned in my 12 years of homeschooling because I didn't have what was required for a specific experiment.
Some moms could just move on, some skip experiments all together.  Some watch someone else do the experiment on YouTube and are happy with that.  Not me.  I can't do that.
Anyway, they are having a blast with it.  The upper picture and the next two are the girls acting out the solar system.  Dash is the sun, the Toddler is the moon and Princess is the Earth.  So the moon is revolving around the Earth all the while they are revolving together around the sun and the  Earth is rotating on it's own axis.  Very fun.

 Here Dash is remembering to SHINE like the sun!  LOL

We also made a model of the solar system that I bought from Scholastic.  In the book they tell you to use balloons and they tell you how big to inflate them so they will be in proportion, but I didn't know where I could hang that up so we made the model instead.

So far, so good!