Showing posts with label It's Real Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It's Real Life. Show all posts

Friday, December 5, 2008

It's Real Life~ Store It- Kitchen

This weeks theme is Store It: Kitchen over at Farm Fresh Jessica's.



I am late this week because my husband decided to work from home yesterday and took over my internet and basically the whole house. I don't know why he thought he could work from home and have it be a quiet work environment with an 18 month old running around. Obviously he is laking in the common sense department some days.


I have a huge kitchen with so many cabinets that I don't even use them all. However that doesn't mean that they are organized. Especially since this kitchen was made for a tall person and that I am not.
All these photos where taken by the rules of no cleaning before snapping. Everything is still relatively clean considering we just had Thanksgiving last week and I am having a PartyLite party this week. Otherwise I am sure it would have collected more clutter than what is seen here.
So here is my kitchen in all its glory.


Top of the fridge. I don't give this area too much thought because I am short.
Most of this stuff is Austin's.

Kitchen utensils are kept in this apple crock on the stove or on the table so that they are handy.

Under the table. Generally just the toaster is kept here but Austin likes to put anything on it that he doesn't know where it belongs.
At the moment there are some duh things on it like the fish tank filters and Mason's swim floaty.

These are the very top cabinets by the ceiling. Just misc junk and my corelle baking dishes.
NOTE~~ I am standing on a chair and still have to be on my tip toes to get to the top shelf.

Glasses, plates, bowl, measuring cups, mixing bowls, sippy cups and the ever important tea.

Cabinets above the windows. Stand mixer, extra plates and bowls, waffle maker, a really ugly cat candle that Austin got me for my birthday many many years ago.

More cabinets above the window. My blender, cookie jar, and open paper towels.
Everything else was left by previous owners and I just didn't care.

Even more cabinets up by the ceiling.
Baking goods, fry daddy, a pampered chef chopper that I've had for 5 years and it hasn't been out of the box yet. Austin's extra new gloves.

The actual food cabinet. I did have this organized but Austin thought it need some improvement and I just haven't changed it back yet.

Junk drawers. Literally JUNK.

Drawers to the left of the sink.
Hot pads and can opener.

Misc kitchen utensils. Measuring cups.

Cook books and cooling racks.

Pie and loaf pans. Custard bowls.

Under sink. The water bottle is my Windex. Austin broke the bottle.

The kitchen sink cabinet lock.

The silverware drawer. The silverware that breaks all the time are the ones with the brown handles.

Today is towel laundry day otherwise this drawer would be full.

Cake pans and cutting board.

Baggies and wraps.

Austin's junk food drawer and important receipts.

Yet another misc junk drawer. Just how many does one family need.

Misc cabinet by fridge.


Coffee maker, Scentsy warmer, flower pot with impatients.
Impatients don't do well in the house from about November to March. As soon as the days start to get longer they do really well. Until then they look like this.


Water cabinet. We added some insulation so hopefully it doesn't freeze this year.

Pots and pans.

Kitchen sink. I leave the strainers out because otherwise I would be constantly putting them away and getting the back out again.

Friday, October 24, 2008

It's Real Life~ Video Introduction

Well it is It's Real Life time again. This week was a video introduction linked up at Heart of the Matter.
I don't know how many others will be doing this but I thought it sounded like fun. So after fighting with One True Media to get the code and blogger to accept the code it can now be seen and heard. I don't know if that is a good thing or not. So anyways this is me.
*Never mind the hair and makeup*



Wednesday, August 27, 2008

It's Real Life- How I Roll



It's time for It's Real Life over at Farm Fresh. This weeks theme is How I Roll.


The rule is to not prep for these photos. You know REAL life. Well my car is a disaster because my husband has been driving it. I can't even get him to pick up his dirty clothes from the bathroom floor. What would make me think I could get him to get his trash out of my car. Therefore my car is a mess but I didn't clean it for these photos. So this is HOW I ROLL.




The front view. It rained today or it would look way worse.
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Side view. We live on river rock gravel. This is the cleanest I have seen my car in a while.
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Back view. Most of the time you can't see the Chrysler or 300 for all the dirt.
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Yes I am hoping to see this turn over 200,000. I am cheap and cars are expensive!
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Gum, a dollar and a Hy-Vee receipt. You never know when you are going to need a dollar. The gum is so that my husband will never know when I sneak a cig.
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I just liked this little flip flop. I wasn't crazy about the smell so I let it hang from the BBQ grill outside until all the smell was gone.


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My cute little plaid purse that carries one diaper, a Ziploc baggie with wipes, a folder with my MOPS publicity papers, a notebook, one lighter, and a pack of cigs, for those days when my husband nuts. Occasionally it will also carry my check book.

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My radar detector. Never leave home without it. It truly has saved me hundreds times.
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Mason's car seat. We don't leave the drive without Alo the buffalo being on his lap. The little yellow fish he got from the Farm Progress Show. I need to get him turned back to rear facing it was just soooo hooootttt. The sun would beat right on him and no air conditioning would reach him. Every time I would take him out he would be dripping wet.
We are going to keep him rear facing hopefully for the whole winter because it is so much safer.
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Another of Mason's toys. This sits right behind my seat. Makes it easy to reach.

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Mason's stroller. Papers from the Farm Progress Show. 3 gallons of water that needed taken inside. (I did go ahead and take them in after taking photos) The license plate and the crazy colored book are my sisters that I keep forgetting to drop off at her house when I see her.

To the very right is a red object. It is my ice scrapper. I know it is August in Iowa but realistically we could be using this in 6 weeks. Scary thought for all the Iowans out there.

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Again it rained today. Otherwise this is how my whole car would look.
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Mason's cowboy hat from the Rodeo.

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This is what I drive when Austin drives my car and I have MOPS.

Now don't anybody get jealous.

Yes it is John Deere green.
We paid $650 for it 3 years ago. It gets me from point A to point B.
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I wouldn't mind driving it if it didn't have this stack. Yes ladies a stack. With a tractor flapper. For crying out loud a tractor flapper. Not to mention the 75 gallon fuel tank in the bed.

It truly is an embarrassment and Mason loves it. Good thing because it is probably going to be his first vehicle.
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She sure is a beauty!! Especially all the dog pee on the tires. Really who wouldn't want to own this truck.