Home Organization Skills by Jan Ferrante

I am happy to report that I've made great strides in my livingroom during our Spring Into Spring Cleaning Challenge.

I'm just working on the last day and came across an article about using Feng Shui in the living room that I found to be very interesting.

I posted it on our Spring Cleaning forum.

You can see it here if you would like to give your home and living room a Feng Shui boost.

Living Room Feng Shui

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Trying to make healthy kid's meals at our house is always a challenge.

Spaghetti is an issue in our house. My kids like to eat it. 2 out of 3 of them like it with sauce.

That's a good thing.

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Get ready for the 5th annual Mommyfest!

If you have a mom blog and would like to participate, just click on the image to get the details for fun, prizes and a great guest line up.

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I am hoping that you are all having a wonderful Mother's Day and enjoying your children and family today.

This morning my husband had to leave to early for work. My daughter got up and asked me to make HER a peanut butter and honey sandwich.

Obviously, I'm not doing my job since I had to remind her that SHE is supposed to make breakfast on mother's day :0)

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I came across this really amazing podcast for kids this morning.

It's called Snuggles - makes me wish I had internet when my kids were small - there are so many great resources out there, but this one really does stand out.

If you're looking for something fun and different to keep your kids entertained for awhile, check it out.

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I have been 3 long years in the process of getting the Queen of KAOS Life Systems Manual polished up and ready to go.

One day I realized that the heart of the system that I use every day consisted of one chapter of the book.

It was ready so I thought, why not release it as an eGuide so that you don't have to wait any longer to start getting things in order. 

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In honour of the fresh spring day we are having - NOT! I am thinking that today would be a good day to declutter with some spring freshness in mind.

What is stale and boring in your house?

What could go and be replaced either with a sparkling clean and shining surface to welcome spring - or a vase of fresh flowers?

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Most of the time once we've figured out what we need need to do, and how we need to do it, we are often baffled at the next stage.

We actually do it for awhile, then suddenly we find ourselves drifting.

Something else comes along that throws out of our habit. Suddenly the time we had seems to have been swallowed up and we can't seem to find it again.

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OPEN APRIL 1 - JUNE 31

If you have been himm'n and haw'n about getting your spring cleaning finished - or started - you should have a look at our Spring Into Spring Cleaning Challenge.

I am 4 days in and amazed at how 'springy' it is feeling in my bedroom, the first room on the chopping block during the challenge - and how much I look forward to doing my 20 minutes every day. Probably because it makes such a big difference in such a short period of time.

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It sure is! I'm pumped this week because I started on the Spring Into Spring Cleaning Challenge yesterday, and the first day was a declutter day. So I am all ready to roll with the great results that I got.

I took a picture of the booty.

The great thing is that I had been keeping it up so I didn't think that I would have much. I did have to dig into closets, shelves etc, there wasn't much just laying around and I took an extra 5 minutes to get some books out of a drawer that I wanted to get rid of - part of the beauty - sometimes 20 minutes will inspire you to do just a little bit more.

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