Day 7 of Money Saving Mom's 4 Weeks to a More Organized Home {Simplified}

Today felt wonderful. The assignment was to:

"::Get dressed in something that makes you feel great {there’s something about dressing in clothes that make you feel great that just gives you more energy and zest for life! Get your free copy of SarahMae’s ebook, Frumps to Pumps, if you need more motivation in this.}

::Sit down with a cup of coffee or tea and create a list of weekly goals. I’ll be posting my weekly goals later today along with a link-up so you can share yours, as well.

::Set the timer for 15 minutes and vacuum the main living areas of your home."

I did all of the above plus the car clean-out and vacuum from yesterday. The floors needed it SO badly.

Before picture of the back of the car

After - how beautiful

These are free things we got today through coupons and deals listed at Money Saving Mom! Yay! Free!

reading for school

Ew - dirty floors

Ooh - sparkling floors!

Homeschool went pretty well today. We got quite a lot done in a relatively organized and cheerful way. We read the final story in Norse Gods and Giants, a story from Everyday Graces, ten minutes of The Hobbit, the introduction and first section of The Golden Picture Book of Science, the introduction (hilarious!) and first poem of Now We Are Six, and the end of Chapter 6 in This Country of Ours. We also read about nature journaling with this Smithsonian.org lesson plan I found today. 

Xander did 20 minutes of Spanish with Oh Noah!, one section of the Singapore Math textbook and one exercise in the accompanying workbook, one session of Xtra Math, a Spanish song sing-along, morning chores, do-a-dot spelling words for the week, and drew both a picture of his choosing and a picture narrating what happened in the chapter of This Country of Ours. For both, he wrote a caption. His handwriting is improving since the beginning of the year. We also did pledges to the flags and learned facts about the second president of the United States, John Adams.

I feel really good about all of that. Now to make dinner and do a general clean-up of the table and dishes.