Kitchen Duty Day

DONE! 1. process frozen bananas
DONE! 2. process grapes in fridge into freezer bags
3. make smoothie bags for freezer
DONE1 4. bag mangos
DONE! 5. bag strawberries
DONE! 6. bag decaf coffee
DONE!7. bag caf coffee
 8. refill jar meals
9. Reorg old fridge
DONE! 10. make iced coffee
DONE! 11. process lettuce
12. process peppers

emptied keurig containers of too bold coffee 

New room layout

 

Here is my proposal for the new layout for our front rooms.
The piano stays in here for now since it costs 125 to move it and I want to wait a month to do that.
Luckily the piano needs tuning anyway so I can get both done at once.

Lists for the Great Re-Org

I want this done before we begin CC on Aug 31 so I need to get started now.

--Clean off Dining table
--Clean out Containers buckets to make room
--Move comfy couch to adventure room (AR)
--Move comfy chair to AR
--Move armoire to family room behind couch
--Move hutch to entry way
--Put books in boxes
--move grandpa's couch across from piano\
--Move coffee table to AR
--Move bookshelves to new playroom
--Purge books
(only reading books and currently used HS books on bookshelves)
--Paint new family room (grey or tan)
--Paint new school room (redo yellow - already have paint)
--Touch up new playroom
--move toys to playroom bookshelves
--move TV armoire to AR
--set up whiteboard/ledge area in School Room
--move black dining table to school room

Thinking through the great Re-Org

Now that I have come to terms with the fact that the wall won't be knocked down for a year, I need to reorganize my spaces.  I am setting up my front rooms as the play room and the school room, and turning our current playroom into the family room.  Why?
1. I want the piano in the bigger room so we can all enjoy "concerts"
2. The new family room will still be where the guest kids play, but all of the school stuff I don't want touched will be in the front room.
3. I want the school room closer to the kitchen.
4. The current family room is so small it is hard for our family to enjoy the room together.

Playroom Facing East

Play room facing North.  The Bookshelves will be moving to the new play room.

Playroom facing west.  The piano, whiteboards and ledges will
move to the school room.

Current family room.  The hutch, comfy couch, chair, coffee table
and pictures will move to the new family room.

Current family room facing north-west.  The piano, tv, and
curtains will move to the family room.

Current family room looking into the "dining room." 
The dining room will become the play room.

Organizing my meals

Since I am finally feeling better I did some catchup on my jar meals.  I love to take a picture of what I did as an encouragement to myself when I'm tired.

-4 jars of whole wheat bread ingredients for the bread machine
-4 jars of pasta soup, family favorite
-3 jars of hamburger lentil soup, my favorite
-3 hats chicken noodle soup
-1 pea and lentil soup (new)
-1 hamburger soup (new)
-1 classic split pea soup (new)
-1 vegetable and beef soup (new)