Guess what?!

The grout is gross AGAIN! Ugh. And I did all the things I was and wasn't supposed to do (don't use cleansers, do clean it with only hot water). Look like grout schmout, white tile and white grout just doesn't stand up to two kids and a dog.

Guess what?!

The grout is gross AGAIN! Ugh. And I did all the things I was and wasn't supposed to do (don't use cleansers, do clean it with only hot water). Look like grout schmout, white tile and white grout just doesn't stand up to two kids and a dog.

Drink lots of fluid and get plenty of rest.

Grout = Gross

Do any of you have tile floors? Oh man, don't get them. They are too hard to keep clean! Especially when Genius McGee who redid our house before we bought it put WHITE tiles and WHITE grout in the kitchen, the highest traffic area of the whole stinkin' house! Do not get me started. Ok, ok, I am very grateful for the man who flipped this house and made it into a really amazing starter home for us. But still. Two adults, one dog, and two small kiddos equals one big headache that never stays clean.

Oh, it's gross. It is so gross! Even when I clean the floors they are still too gross because of the grout! Ugh. So finally we got some professionals out here to clean them and seal them. Phew!

By the way, no one is allowed to walk on these floors EVER AGAIN.

(Also, apparently the secret is to only clean them with hot water. Pine Sol or other cleaners dissolves the sealant! Huh!)

Grout = Gross

Do any of you have tile floors? Oh man, don't get them. They are too hard to keep clean! Especially when Genius McGee who redid our house before we bought it put WHITE tiles and WHITE grout in the kitchen, the highest traffic area of the whole stinkin' house! Do not get me started. Ok, ok, I am very grateful for the man who flipped this house and Two adults, one dog, and two small kiddos equals one big headache that never stays clean.

Oh, it's gross. It is so gross! Even when I clean the floors they are still too gross because of the grout! Ugh. So finally we got some professionals out here to clean them and seal them. Phew!

By the way, no one is allowed to walk on these floors EVER AGAIN.

(Also, apparently the secret is to only clean them with hot water. Pine Sol or other cleaners dissolves the sealant! Huh!)

Silverwhere?

Our silverware situation was annoying. We have a pretty small kitchen, and for the first two years of our marriage we didn't have a dishwasher. Not a big deal, but then we found out we were having Baby #1 and we decided we should probably get a dishwasher. Great idea, totally worth it, although it took out two cabinets and two drawers of our already cramped kitchen (and left us with two small drawers and one really small drawer).

Now that Baby #1 AND 2 are a little older, we can now refocus our attention on things that do not include babies, babies, and babies. Hence, this blog. And finally making our kitchen useful again!

The first solution that we tried years ago was to keep our silverware in the pantry in a wire slide out drawer... thing. It worked, I guess.

But then the pantry door broke, and opening the broken door to get a fork and then closing the broken door and then realizing you also needed a spoon quickly became a huge pain in the butt. But do you ever have things in your life that annoy you and you don't realize that there could potentially be a solution? It took us a loooong time to think, hey, maybe we should switch out this jam packed drawer full of pot holders and bibs with the silverware!

So we did!

So not only will it be much easier to actually find the silverware drawer, it's way more practical. Also here is my helper:

(Here is the silverware organizer we used!)

The Bathroom Sink, short & sweet

I think most women suffer from the 50-bottles-of-product-with-a-tablespoon-or-less-left-in-it syndrome. I am one of them for sure. It's true. I do it with cereal too. I rarely finish a box of cereal. I am too excited to open the new one I just bought!

So anyway, here is what it looked like under the master bedroom's bathroom sink before:

Annnnd, ORGANIZATION!

Let's just say, lots of crap got thrown away, and there is still more I could part with. Maybe.