SharpMom Week in Review: Dec. 17th - Dec. 23rd
December 23, 2006
Here are the SharpMom posts from the past week for your convenience. Enjoy!
- Have the Movers Move it All (Tip of the Week)
- Small Spaces are Easier to Decorate
- Who Will Walk the Dog?
- Rosie at War with”The Donald”
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Who Will Walk the Dog?
December 21, 2006
Now that we are living in an apartment my kids have something new to fight about every day and that’s: Who’s turn is it to walk the dog?
Our dog is just 9 lbs, so when we lived in our house I didn’t take her for an official walk everyday. We’d let her out and she’d give herself a little walk around our back yard. Now that we won’t have a yard for a few months, I feel we at least owe her a walk everyday. We’ve been going on our walks after school. I thought this would be fun for all of us until I realized that this was yet another competition, something else to fight over. . . CONTROL OF THE LEASH!
I tried having them split the duty, one walks the dog to the grassy area and the other child walks her home. This plan is not going so well. We might have to move to an every other day plan, kind of like what we are doing for the removal of the sticker on the Christmas calendar.
I guess having a sibling ultimately teaches one to share, but we’re not there yet!
Small Spaces are Easier to Decorate
December 20, 2006
We took some of our furniture with us to our apartment and I’m finding that small spaces are easier to decorate. For instance, our couch was looking kind of shabby in our old living room. At the apartment, I hardly notice its imperfections.
The lesson here? Consider room size and ceiling height when buying furniture. Got a large room with high ceilings? Your couch and chairs need to be wide and deep with tall backs. You need tall lamps and large artwork or collections of artwork. Dark colored paint can also cozy up a room where as light paint colors will make a small room appear larger. Going into an apartment like I did? Bring or buy smaller pieces of furniture. Our amoire couldn’t make the turn at the top of the steps in the apartment, so it went into storage. Large tables, tall beds, etc. will just make an already small apartment feel even more cluttered.
We’ve also decided it’s much easier to decorate a small Christmas tree! Our new tree looks great and it took about an hour. I usually spend half a day on my Christmas tree! Life will be simple for a while!
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Hi, I'm Katie. I’ve been successfully working at home and homeschooling my kids for the past 14 years, so I figured it’s time to get out there and start sharing what I’ve learned along the way. I'm glad you're here to join in the fun!
