We Accomplished A Lot Today!

Today turned into a very productive day, part was expected, the other part, no so much!

What we knew that would happen today is that Lola would be starting her dance classes as a BIG girl! That is right, no more mommy/daddy and me classes and she couldn't have been more excited! This was partly due to the fact that this class is more than just ballet and she gets to rock the tap shoes too!
And there she is actually in class...no more mommy! She has no problem being Miss Independent, and did a great job in class. In fact, when it was time to put on her tap shoes, she didn't want to come out of the room for me to help her, she wanted her teacher to! She is such a big girl!
It was so much fun watching her!

Ok, so then after dance class, we knew we were going to Costco to stock up on food, some for now and some for our Super Bowl party next weekend. Well, we spent more money than we ever have there (and my hubs said we didn't even get anything really cool to show for it...ha!) and got enough food to feed a small army! I immediately started thinking about the condition that the pantry was in and knew there was NO WAY that any of it was going to fit.

Insert unexpected productivity of today.

I did not plan on reorganizing the pantry for like 6 hours, I needed to do lesson plans and finish my wreath! Duty calls sometimes I guess.

Although it is embarrassing, I feel like if I show the before picture, my pantry will never look like this again!

Seriously, there was little (very little) rhyme or reason as to what went where. Before anything new could go in, everything had to come out!
My kitchen looked like this for several hours. Want to know the most random thing pulled out of the pantry? A hand-saw. It was on the top shelf, I am sure that I am the one that put it there in an effort to save a little time, I don't know why I do that, I just do! I am proud to say that it is now safely put away in the garage thank you very much!

After a trip to the Dollar Store to get plastic storage bins to help with the organizing and several hours later, I finally have a clean pantry!
All of the kids snack items and food choices were moved to the bottom two rows so that picking out their food could be nice and easy! The appliance that are rarely used are still housed on the top shelf, along with the paper towels. All of the cleaning supplies are to the right when you walk in, but are high enough off the ground that the kids can't really reach (although they do love to help their mama clean)!

It was worth the several hours that it took to get it looking so nice! After I was finished I got to sit down to a wonderful dinner prepared by Short Round (what Kyan asked to be called from now on, hoping that it is only for tonight) and the hubs! I even got to enjoy a bath uninterrupted, while everyone was entertained by an Indian Jones movie downstairs! A little piece of heaven that was for me!

PS - I know this has nothing to do with my post, but I just wanted to share my latest food obsession. I want to eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It annoys Chad about any food I do this with, just so happens that right now it is Edamame! I already ate it for lunch today, but am thinking about eating another bag before I go to bed...