I've missed blogging the last year and a half or so, but it just didn't feel right since I wasn't "Stay-at-Home Sandy" anymore. I thought about creating a new blog, but I didn't want to leave behind all of the awesome stuff our family has done. Here it turns out, all I had to do was go into settings and type in a new name! Who knew?!?! Welcome to "Our Family Adventures" at www.thejohnsonfamilychronicles.blogspot.com (previously known as "The Adventures of Our Year at Home" at www.stayathomesandy.blogspot.com).
I should probably play catch-up with all that has happened in the last year and a half, but I'm sooooo excited to share pictures of our new family organization center that I'll just do quick bullet points.
- Jeremy graduated seminary.
- We moved to the CUTEST TOWN EVER! Seriously. It's adorable.
- He's a pastor of two fantastic churches.
- I landed my dream job teaching kindergarten full-time at the local parochial school.
- We both work within walking distance of our house.
- We bought a house!
- We remodeled almost everything in the house!
- Micah is in first grade and made a couple great friends.
- Liliana is in preschool and hasn't bit anyone all year.
- We have two cats, Sonic and Chloe.
- We're going through the foster care licensing process with the intent to foster to adopt a sibling set, ages 7 or under (initially planned on just babies or toddlers, but feeling our hearts pulling towards those harder to place).
That about sums it up! Okay...now onto the amazingness! Anyone who has been to our new house has probably heard me complain about the awkward eat-in-kitchen/laundry room/entryway. The eat in part isn't really big enough to actually eat in, plus we have a huge dining room. And the main floor laundry is super convenient, except that it's taking up valuable real estate where we could have coat cubbies. I turned to pinterest for solutions and actually came up pretty dry. I also needed a place to organize all of our paperwork but with such an open floor plan, we have very little wall space.
Then it hit me.
Before-
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| This is actually WAY before! Like before we even owned the house when we were getting a tour of it. The laundry is behind those closet doors. |
After-
Ta-da!!!! I am so in love! Is that from Pinterest? Nope, that's my house! Squeeee!!!!! Each member of our family has a door with a chalkboard, mail/paper sorter, and magnet board. I looked to purchase mail sorters but nothing was exactly right, so I made them. Here's a closer look:
But don't look too close, because my stitching is ALWAYS sloppy. ;) The magnet boards are sheets of metal with paper mod-podged over them and Ric Rac hotglued on.
I mod podged little circles of the paper onto magnets so we've got polka-dot magnets to match the polka-dot mail sorter. These are the things that make me absolutely giddy.
Not only is the family organizing center cute...but it was completely needed. Now hopefully I won't lose Micah's math homework again! And I'll complain about our weird eat-in kitchen/laundry room/entry a little less next time you come to visit!
