{Thursday Thoughts 2.23.12}

Linked up with Sar at [life of love} for another round of...

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i. heart. photography. and everything I learn around it!
Here's a taste of what I'm working on :-)

DO NOT COPY - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Isn't she just the most precious little thing ever!? This is exactly why photography is one of the greatest hobbies ever!

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YAY FOR ORGANIZATION! My entire life, I've never been consistently organized, nor has my living space been clean all the time. I will be the first to admit that I wasn't a very tidy person mostly because I would just toss and run to go do the next thing.

For the past couple months, I've really been making it a point to keep our apartment picked up and keep up on the household chores. I started by deep cleaning the entire apartment and tried to come up with some sort of method that would help me keep on top of things. It didn't last long until I became extremely frustrated and felt like I could never keep up, even with the schedule I came up with for myself! Luckily...PINTEREST SAVED THE DAY!!! I found this AWESOME chore list on Pinterest and it actually WORKS! I'm no longer that girl that feels like she's going to have a heart attack when someone calls and mentions that they'll be stopping by unexpectedly in 5 minutes. I'm now the girl that's like "SEE YOU SOON!" while sitting on the couch sipping coffee instead of running around the apartment throwing things in places to make it look decent enough for company to see. Let me tell you, it's such a freeing feeling!

The gal that created this chore list provides the one she made for her household and a blank one for you to personalize to meet your household needs. Here's what they look like...but if you want the link to the direct download...you can find it HERE :-)

Already done for you! :-)

Make you're own! :-)

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Meal planning - at first I dreaded the idea and thought it was a complete waste of time....well, I definitely proved myself wrong! We planned out meals for this entire week, planned our shopping trip around it (for those of you that don't know, I'm a couponer, so being able to be THIS organized with meals, grocery lists, and couponing AT THE SAME TIME is a-mazing!) Here is what the meal planning sheet looks like...

Front Cover

Meal Planner

Back Cover

...isn't it CUTE!?

I've made this meal planner into a small binder and just print out a few of the Meal Planner pages to go inside so I can plan about two weeks at a time. 

You can also find a matching recipe book on there as well. To get to the download, you can find it HERE.

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I'm ready for warmer weather! Took Miss K out in the sunshine (even if there was a wind storm happening) and had some fun at the little playground that sits in the middle of our apartment complex. Here she is getting in some action on the swing.

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I love adding new recipes to my recipe box. A while back I started a little group on Facebook for recipe sharing amongst my friends and their friends and in just a matter of MONTHS, there have been well over 63 recipes shared and they just keep on coming! Definitely one of those things that I never thought would get to be such a huge success and I love it! (and so does my hubby haha). The group is called Recipe Share and I THINK you can asked to join, but if you can't...let me know and I will get you added to the group! :-) 

HAPPY THURSDAY EVERYONE! :-)