the monday update

good monday morning! hope you all had a nice weekend. it's overcast and a little rainy here today, but what should i expect since it's grocery day, right? have i ever mentioned just how much i hate spring? ok...just checking. :)

saturday we had our special assembly day and it was so encouraging. my favorite point from the whole day was that we should be making a self-examination daily/weekly/monthly, whatever. and asking ourselves this question:
am i the spiritual person i should be?
our actions in our daily lives should answer this question if we're honest with ourselves.
wow--i am definitely going to start doing this!
such a simple question, but how much it can reveal about us if we let it.

(i didn't take many pictures at all. but here's a cute one of claire and mck. they took such good notes and acted so grown up, i was so proud!)

sunday, we didn't have to go anywhere, so we stayed home all day (i just love doing that!) we watched some of mck's recorded shows--she's still on a full house kick and then we cleaned her closet--she was less than thrilled.

last week i had cleaned my closet so yesterday was her turn.
as much as i love to read about organization and buy organizational-related things, you would think that i would really implement it into my life. i'm trying, you know.
my closet is one of my "hot spots" (that's flylady lingo!)
i have the best intentions of keeping it nice and clean and then, innocently enough, my problems begin.
it usually starts by putting the pj pants and tank i wore to bed on the floor, then i add the clean laundry i don't want to take the time to hang up and then, before i know it, my closet looks like this:
(i can't believe i'm posting this. but, you know, just keeping it real.)

(by now, i know my mom is thinking, "heavenly day--where did i go wrong?")

so finally, even i can't stand it anymore and i spend a while organizing and throwing stuff away and eventually it looks like this:

isn't that so much better? so i am determined to keep it this way as long as i can. it makes me so mad that i let it get as messy as that but it just kind of snowballs before i know it!

and here's a little part of my closet i just love. on one of the shelves is this cute box filled with scarves and a darling hat danielle made for me!

so...
that brings me to sunday afternoon and mckinlee's closet. i don't why i think hers will be any different with such a good role model as her mother. ha!

like mother, like daughter...

we drug everything out of the floor of her closet, went through all her clothes to see what still fit, filled a trash bag with trash and before too terribly long, her closet looked like this:

ahh...so much better, right? i love being able to see the floor.
after we had finished i asked her, "doesn't that just make you feel so much better to have everything so organized and clean?"
she looked at me with a curled lip and wonder at my obvious pleasure and said,
"well, it doesn't make me feel bad." ha!
so now we have a little contest going on.
whoever keeps their closet the neatest for the longest amount of time will win a prize!
my prize will be 2 scrapbook magazines, her choice was 2 lip glosses.
something to keep us motivated, right?

now that i've shared our dirty secrets...i will get to my grocery shopping.
have a good day!