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Tackle It Tuesday

Tackling the Kids’ Books

We like books around here, and with my kids’ penchants for picking up books at the thrift store or the Dollar General, we started having a little bit of a book overflow issue. Since we no longer do school in the corner of Little Prince’s room, there really wasn’t a …

Tackling the Shelves

Our big tackle for this week was de-cluttering and weeding the bookshelves, which had once again attained “quite horrendous!” status. We needed to rearrange a little to make room for the Christmas tree – and you need to clear big heavy bookcases before moving them anyway – so I finally …

Tackling the Oven

You’ll never guess what I did yesterday. (Oh, I guess I kind of gave it away with my title, huh?) At any rate… yesterday… I. Cleaned. My. Oven. For the first time. EVER. I don’t know why, but I’ve never cleaned an oven before. Last December when my friends came …

Tackling Some Sewing

Today I went over to my MIL’s house and finished an apron for Drama Queen. She helped me pick out the fabrics and colors. She really likes it and its really cute on her. However, on the way home one of the ties got stuck under the booster seat and …

Back To School – A Tuesday Tackle

Today is “back to school” for us. We took a rather lengthy (for us) Christmas and New Year vacation (almost three weeks!) and now it’s time to hit the books. Getting back in the groove is always difficult, and after a break of this length, it could be more so. …