Dear Dawn,
With school approaching, I know with three kids I am going to be in for a massive amount of artwork and finger-painted self portraits. Where am I supposed to store all these masterpieces?
Fear of Art

Dear FoA,
Do not fret. I have the perfect solution for you. I love this!! A lot of you have questions on what in the world to do with all the artwork little Suzie brings home from school. Here is your answer. No more stuffing it in closets and drawers. I think these are adorable and kids will love them too!

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I know you all think I’m organized and have it all together, right? HA. Not so. If I don’t write things down, it’s gone forever. Lost into the vast wasteland that is my brain! I have post it notes everywhere, and calendars for everyone in the family and a master calendar. With school coming up so fast, its time to get it together and get all those appointments written down, birthdays written down and other important dates. Get yourself a big white board calendar. You can use different colors for each child. With sports practices, and games, and fund raising events, and dr. and dentist appointments…good gracious, it’s too much to keep inside my frazzled brain! Don’t wait to mark things down till later, believe me you will forget! Keep it simple. Don’t go into a frenzy of spread sheets and graphs. All you need is a simple calendar.

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Girls, summer is speeding by us. Before you know it, you will be putting the little ones on the bus for school. Are you ready? Have you been school shopping? Do the kids have enough socks, underwear and clothes? Are their drawers and closets all neat and ready for the new school year? No? Uh oh…time to get busy! You want your children to be well organized and prepared for school. Living in chaos is no way to start the school year. So grab your children, head into their rooms and start getting it together.

Start by getting rid of clothes that do not fit them. Then get rid of the clothes that they just do not wear anymore for whatever reason. Get in and organize the drawers. This will make it easy for them to get dressed in the mornings. Alternatively, for you to pick out clothes the night before. Clean out the closets. Organize the shoes, hang the pants, hang the shirts. Get rid of things that do not need to be in there. Do they have a desk in their room? Is this where homework and studying is done? Clean it out; set it up so it’s ready for a new school year. New pencils, new calendar, erasers, pencil sharpener, paper. Have the tools your kids need to succeed.

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The end of July is near and with it comes the last month of summer vacation for many. Enjoy it. Live it up and let your inner child out. We can all use a break from the stress of being a grown up. Get outside and play in the sprinkler. Play hide and go seek, and tag, and hopscotch. Throw the football around and jump on the trampoline. Let the ice-cream from the ice-cream cone drip down your elbows and laugh about it. Let your kids get dirty. Take tons of pictures. Laugh. Really laugh with your children and enjoy the last days of summer!

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