Cameron Crazy

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As you know, I have been reading the Happiness Project. In the first chapter, she talks about tackling the clutter in her apartment. I have decided we need to do some clutter tackling ourselves. Especially if we are going to move some time in the near future. I certainly don’t want to pack more than what needs to be to our new place.

I decided I’d better have a few of my rules for my spring cleaning project, so that it wouldn’t mirror my previous attempts at really getting rid of clutter. The first one was to not buy anymore organization tubs. I need to use the ones we already have. Surely we don’t need everything in these tubs or we would be in them all the time right? PURGE, PURGE, PURGE!

I also decided I need to focus on Cameron when doing my cleaning. I want to ask myself questions like, “why am I holding on to this?” and “when was the last time I used this?” Boogie Bear will not want something I made when I was a child that is now broken nor will he want to clean out all of my ‘Hoarders’ clutter later in life! Yes, I need to do this for him.

As I mentioned before, I am using The Happiness Project loosely to create my rules. She categorizes clutter in the book. That inspired me to make another set of guidelines:

• Get rid of nostalgic clutter. (Things from my past that have no real meaning to me.)
• Get rid of conservation clutter. (Things I have kept because they are useful, but I never use them.)
• Get rid of crutch clutter. (Things I use but know I shouldn’t.)
• Get rid of aspirational clutter. (Things I own but only aspire to use one day.)
• Get rid of buyer’s remorse clutter. (Things I bought that I didn’t end up liking.)

She also inspired me to come up with some guidelines for going through my own closet. One of them is that I need to take time to make each item in my closet work. If it doesn’t work, it will be purged. I used to have a serious shopping problem, and that means that I now have WAY more clothes than I will ever wear. Also, I would like to make room for new clothes since I have had some of mine for over two years now. I have grown up, and I think it is time my wardrobe reflects that.

Believe it or not, my husband has more clothes than I do! He has the giant closet in our bedroom and I have one of the two closets in Cameron’s room. (Why does Cameron’s room have two closets, you ask? Because he actually has the master bedroom. Long story.) He also has THREE tubs of clothes in our garage. It really is awful, so I plan on having him go through his things too. (And if he doesn’t, I am attacking them myself!) We need those tubs for all of the clothes Cameron has outgrown! I think I will gently remind him he needs to do it for his son. ;)

I hope to update you on all of my progress this week. I am planning on having a lot of progress!

Do you have any plans to spring clean?

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Today, I had to wake up early to be at an appointment. Once we got there we were informed that someone at the office had messed up and put the wrong date on my little appointment card. Normally, I would have been really angry and it would have ruined my day. I decided not to let it though. Why? Because what did I really have to be mad about? Cameron and I got there safely. It wasn’t freezing cold. People make mistakes. And although this particular office makes these sort of mistakes frequently, it’s not like I had any other place to be. More and more I am realizing that these little things that would normally make me angry and annoy me are not important at all. I just have to LET IT GO. I did what I needed to do. I held up my end of the bargain. The mistake was theirs, so why get upset about it?

Here is to happier Mondays and just letting it go! How was your Monday?

We have been SO busy lately! This weekend was no exception.

Saturday, Cameron, my mom, and I went shopping at the pavillion. They were having a kids consignment sale (I have talked about it before), and we waited until Saturday to go since that was the half-off deal day. It was so picked over this year, I think more people have found out about it. We spent $50 on about 10 outfits though, so we called it a success! We also went to the mall and picked up a few pairs of pjs for Cam. He is growing out of his rapidly and we didn’t find one pair of pjs at the sale. We ate lunch with Blake and then headed home.

Today it was so gorgeous outside! It got up to 70 degrees, and it was mostly sunny. Blake and I decided we definitely needed to get out and about. We wanted to go for a walk at the arboretum and to do some shopping, so we dropped Cam off at my in-law’s house and headed out for lunch. We bought Cam some more pjs with a gift card he had from Christmas and then went to Starbucks to grab a drink.

YUM! We love Starbucks. Then we headed to PetCo to take a look at all of their fish. We recently remodeled our aquarium (did I tell you that already?) and are looking to add a few more friends to our tank for our fish. They had some wonderful contenders there, but in the end we didn’t get any. We might have to make a trip back sometime though. :)

I also had fun looking at the other pets there today. The ones I don’t actually want but they are cute to look at? Those kind. Like guinea pigs, ferrets, and turtles. And there was a tarantula there too but it really creeped Blake and I out. I decided I would spare you the freight of that photo, and give you this one instead:

Isn’t he cute? :)

After PetCo, we headed over to the arboretum. Well, sort of. My husband declared he knew where it was, but it turned out he didn’t. ;) I ended up getting us there, but it was closed. There were all sorts of trees down. I guess the winter weather took it’s toll on it and no one has been able to clean it up yet.

So that was our weekend! How was yours? Were you busy? Did you have nice weather too?

(P.S. Please excuse my photos, they were all taken with my iPhone. ;)

Brittany did this and I thought it’d be fun to jump in and do also. Let me know if you do it too! :)

P.S. I will have a real blog post tomorrow. I promise. :)

Instructions: The post is a list of 99 random things. Bold the ones that you yourself have done.

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower (I think?)
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to DisneyWorld
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling — snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business (sort of?)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies (I was a girl scout. :)
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check (I think when I was in college? Oops.)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been a passenger on a motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Kissed a stranger at midnight on New Year’s Eve
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Got a tattoo (No tattoos for me!)
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Recently, I received an award from Katie of Cleared For Takeoff. If you have never visited her blog, you seriously need to! She is adorable and I love reading what she, her pilot husband, and baby girl are up to!

I also received the award from Brittany of LatteLoveMommy a while back! (I am so behind with these awards girls, I’m sorry!)

As always, there a rules for this award! And they are:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award. (THANK YOU, KATIE & BRITTANY! :)
2. Copy the award & place it on your blog. CHECK!
3. Link to the person who nominated you for this award. CHECK!
4. Share 7 interesting things about yourself.
5. Nominate 7 bloggers.

Ok, so seven interesting things about me:

1. I like the way my kitchen floor feels on my feet when it is clean. I don’t like cleaning it though.
2. I grew up in the country, but prefer living in town like I do now.
3. I got engaged in Creve Coeur, Missouri. A ‘burb of St. Louis.
4. My husband and I already have our next child’s names picked out.
5. I have visited 14 states, but have never left the country.
6. Keeping Up With The Kardashians is my guilty pleasure.
7. I love playing Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook and my iPhone.

1. Susan of I’m Just A Girl In The World
2. Heather of A Scrappy Design
3. Cheryl of Chey Can Cook
4. Jami of The Ditzy Duo
5. Mandy of A Bug’s Life
6. Jenn of Blonde Ambition
7. Kendra of Silky Bowties

Thanks again girls! This was fun! :)