Three Posts In One

Post Part One: There's A Monkey In The Cupboard!



Ben loves to climb into the daycare cubbies (and throw their contents out!) He is so small he can stand upright in them.

Post Part Two: Hair...Long Beautiful Hair!

Jack and Ben are hippies! They have long hair and I cannot bare to cut it. Cutting it, to me, signals the end of their babyhood. Cutting it means I have to admit they are becoming Big Boys (same thing goes for the binky!) Oh but they are so sweet with all that hair if you ask me.

Post Part Three: The Family That Closets Together, Stays Together!

The Family Closet...an absolute necessity, IMO, for anyone with a gaggle of kids. The shear volume of laundry generated by my kids is overwhelming in itself. Add to that the folding and trekking up stairs to put it all away, it causes even the strongest person to swoon at the mere thought of it. We are very fortunate to have a small spare room kiddy-corner to our laundry room, and adjacent to our downstairs bathroom. I have converted this space into a family closet.


Here we have two sets of shelves for storage and hanging clothes.


Here I hang Jack and Ben's shirts and a few of my own. The top shelf houses clothes Ben needs to grow into, the boys' swim suits, and hats and gloves. The middle shelf is the clothes I fold for the teens and dh that they are supposed to transfer to their rooms.


On these shelves I hang Austen, Owen and Will's shirts. The middle shelf houses my toiletries (the little boys have a hay day if I leave my make-up out where they can reach it), the boys' clean sheets and a few odds and ends. The top shelf holds baby clothes in various sizes and a box of Christmas stuff that needs to find it's way back into the shed.


These colored drawers hold the Austen, Owen, Will and Jack's pants and t-shirts (large ones) and pajamas (small ones.) The two drawers (green) above hold Ben's socks and jammies.


This dresser is for my and the boys' socks and underwear.

On the opposite wall (not pictured)is a larger dresser/changing table where I store the rest of Ben's clothes and all of mine.