We try our very best to keep the house -- and our lives -- as decluttered as possible. This can be an uphill battle. For everything we get rid of, it seems like there is some toy or piece of clothing that is already there to take its place. And that goes for the kids' stuff as well as ours.
One area that we are pretty vigilant about are the shoes for the kids. The goal is that have one pair of whatever they need per season. For example, we try to have one pair of sandals, one pair of sneakers, and one pair of winter boots in the right size for each kid at any time. (KLC and I say one day we might hold ourselves to the same standard, but so far we give ourselves
This works, more or less, until it comes time to actually get rid of last year's pair. This is a picture of the twins' shoes that they wore virtually every day last fall, winter and spring. They spent most of the summer in their sandals, but these were really their every day pair for a year. They just got their new pair so it's time that these get tossed, but they are super cute and they do remind us of their year of being three.
In other news, this will be a busy week for us because KLC is heading in for a little ACL reconstruction. It was a fluke injury -- especially for someone who works out as much as she does. I had surgery on my knee last summer (torn meniscus), and then Zeek, the cat, had essentially the feline equivalent to KLC's surgery last spring. After this, we're hoping everyone in the house can avoid joint issues for at least a year ... or ten.
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