- Modern Parents Messy Kids just has the most fabulous post on blocks.
- Absolutely love the peek into Daisy Yellow’s Moleskin!!!
- Activity Village has a brilliant post on Really Easy-Peasy Fall Crafts and now you know what I was doing when I should have been packing last night.
- Would you look at these block puzzles. I totally love them: Part 1 and Part 2.
- O look, O look… O heady joy!!! Lilla A is having another exhibition… A Robot Exhibition!!! YAY!!! I know exactly what we will be doing as soon as we get back home.
- And would you look at these cute owls on Fem Manuales… too adorable!!!
- This week appears to be the weekend of fabulous crafts… Take a peep at these quick and easy darling ghosts on 5 Orange Potatoes.
- This week on Org Junkie’s 52 Weeks we are at Week 39: Fighting Procrastination.
- Firstly I do start in advance, but not with packing… The last few days before a trip I spend a lot of time putting things back… back where they belong… until our house is completely in place. Every drawer, ever shelf, every closet.
- So I appear to be leaving it too late but actually my preparation to packing is key. Everything has a place and everything must be in its place.
- I make sure we have a novelty breakfast, something easy but different and in our house that is cereal. Place a bowl of cereal in front of each child and then dash from closet to closet going through the kids clothes.
- Our clothes are pretty minimalist at the best of times so I just gather a child’s clothes – each into their own shopping bag, and pop eight bags into one large bag. Done.
- An important thing to remember is that after a week in the great outdoors all our clothes will be grubby when we get back… So I make sure that everyone has one clean outfit in their closet for the great laundry day, the day we get back.
- I pack pretty much how we live, it just makes it easier as we travel to have a similar ethos wether we are home or away: Sort like things together. So a bag of pajamas, a bag for warm tops, and so on… That way we just grab the bag we need at the end of the day.
- Once everything is in its bag the kids are finishing their cereal and cleaning their teeth… at this stage the father person packs the car – because really he seems to possess some sort of Tetris gene…
- Grab the toothbrushes and go.
And the se7en+1th Thing: If you feel like organizing!!!
We are on a major road trip, well major for us… a fair number of days off into the wide blue yonder of Africa… visiting and staying in the home of a local family in Lesotho. We are half way there but when I woke up this morning this was all I had managed to pack…
I am the chief procrastinator at packing. I simply don’t do it. Many of you will know that I am so bad at it that… in the olden days when we first got married my very new husband asked me where my bags were to go on honeymoon… I said “What bags?” and I meant it … I had totally packed nothing. Indeed nothing has changed and this morning we had a row of water bottles on the kitchen sink and that was all… apart from boxes and boxes and boxes of school material – thanks to all of you, that I had packed as it arrived over the past couple of weeks.
I firmly believe that a project takes as long as you give it – so when folks ask me days before a trip if I have begun packing the answer is always no. But really I have it down to a fine art of super quick packing…
And the Se7en +1th thing
That’s us!!! Have a great weekend…
10 responses so far ↓
1 Christine // Oct 1, 2011 at 2:43 pm
I figure if you have clothes you can pack before you need to go, then you have way too many clothes!
I’m a late packer too, but, like you I like to get the house tidy before we leave. . . it makes things so much less stressful when you return.
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2 Love and Lollipops // Oct 1, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Wow! That is one way of packing
! I take forever to pack – I like your way better!
Our church just sent off 60 members to Lesotho too! I hope your travels are safe and wonderful! I know you are going to touch and bless many when you are their. I’m keeping you all in my prayers!
Georgia
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3 Cheryl // Oct 2, 2011 at 10:26 pm
I pack the same way. I have a rough list that I can tick off as I pack, just in case I get distracted half way through. It is all in the preparation. Clothes are washed and in cupboards, which makes packing easy. If I packed days ahead, I’d spend the whole journey worrying about whether I had actually packed certain articles. Moving house is pretty much the same, except I start a few days earlier. Books packed first and also the first to be unpacked! Its a sense of satisfaction!!!
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4 KM // Oct 5, 2011 at 5:07 am
I can’t even imagine packing for 7 + 1 + 2! OH MY!!!! That completely makes sense… packing takes as long as you give it… I’m a planner (ie control seeker), so I’m always packed waaaaay in advance, but maybe that would change if I traveled more.
THANK YOU for your FUN FRIDAY posts– Such a treat!
5 Katy // Oct 8, 2011 at 5:59 pm
I like you collection.
Love those vivid colors…
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6 se7en // Oct 11, 2011 at 1:49 am
Oh Christine… Our return was indeed smooth unpacking wise, the laundry is done and we are straggling back to our reality – so many things where so different and we learnt so much about life, love and everything else… it is taking a little while to step back into our world!!! Trying to think about where on earth to start blogging about it all!!!
7 se7en // Oct 11, 2011 at 1:51 am
Thank you Love and Lollipops… Our lives are changed forever, we had a wonderful time, hard work but lots of fun!!! I will get back into blogging this week and show you the ins and outs of our trip… Lots of love…
8 se7en // Oct 11, 2011 at 1:59 am
Hay Cheryl, I am the master of distraction… so last minute is probably the best option for all our sakes!!! When we moved house previously I packed a box of books a day for a month… and unpacked them first so that it felt like home!!! A kindred spirit indeed!!! Hope you are having a great week!!!
9 se7en // Oct 11, 2011 at 2:06 am
Hay KM, We are back… Traveling is good for us and suits our souls!!! It is good to be home though and we are chilling our way back into reality!!! I am loving your monsters… watch out for them this Friday!!! Lots of love…
10 se7en // Oct 11, 2011 at 2:17 am
Thanks for stopping by Katy, Hope you have a good week!!!
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