I spent most of yesterday poking around 3 large thrift shops. I ended up spending about $20.00. I think I did pretty good. For Jeremiah I got a shorts set, dress pants (from The Children's Place) for fall holidays/church, a short sleeved button up Hawaiian shirt (that he picked out..it's covered in palm trees and jeeps..FUN) and a toy car. For myself, I got two books (sold new for $23.00 each) and two very small vases for the constant little handfuls of flowers that Jeremiah brings me. And the big find of the day, I picked up 2 three foot tall plastic, primary colored, sets of drawers. Each one has 3 deep and wide drawers. I spent this morning cleaning each of them. Jeremiah and I dumped the toys from the 2 Huggies boxes he's been keeping everything in, sorted things out and organized things by drawers. Later today I will make visual labels for each drawer (words too). We have 2 drawers of cars, trucks, tractors and scooters. A drawer for train things (tracks, bridges, engines, cars), a Lego and blocks drawer, a drawer for little animals, men and random small toys and finally a drawer to keep his tractor magazines and some books. :) He is having fun driving his cars along the top and sides of the shelving. :) The colors don't match my living room but so what? It's a much nicer way to keep his toys and should help in keeping them cleaner as well (no dust or dog hair inside the drawers!).

I have laundry going and dishes that need to be done (of course). It's never ending in that department but I try to keep in mind that this means we have had food for our bellies and clean clothes on our backs. I remember not being able to stand long enough to do dishes so I will NOT complain! :)

I'm off to putter.

Have a great day everybody!

Michelle