Molly’s Money-Saving Digests

The special feature for August is:
Organization for Busy Families

I don't know about you but I need help with getting organized and with 3 kids between 1 3/4 and 5 1/4 and #4 due in a couple of weeks, I consider myself busy. I also plan on homeschooling my children & the oldest will begin kindergarten in the fall, so I will be getting even busier. So this digest sounds like it would be very helpful. Here are some of the things covered: Learn how to organize a dozen different aspects of your life and home. Gain control of “the dirty dozen” working step-by-step through problem areas in an average home.
Here are the 12:

* Closets --How to Clean Out a Closet
* Garage --Clearing the Clutter From a Garage can become a reality!
* Recipes --Kudos to the Cook. Benefit from and follow a clear description of just how to categorize it all.
* Kitchen --Come Into my Kitchen! And discover welcoming ways to store and better utilize all your kitchen gadgets and necessities!
* Mail --The Mail Monster. Tame it with easy to implement changes in your home.
* Photos --Organizing Photos. Digital or physical --it is time to do something!
* Toys --The Trouble with Toys. Give yourself a little R&R by learning the acronym ROR.
* Clothing --Organizing Clothing. Take into account your lifestyle, do a little planning, and follow through with some purging!
* Finances --Organizing Finances. A few practical tips for you to stick to!
* School papers --Papers, Papers Everywhere! Get them under control and keep them that way.
* Bathrooms --Bathroom Organization. Tricks to quickly organize your bathroom and make daily tasks easier.
* E-Books --E-Books Everywhere! Learn of the options for E-Book storage.

Plus there is a lot of other great sounding advice, sounds like I need to pick one up.
Super-size the organization in your home for less than a super-sized, drive-thru meal, and enjoy super fast meals all year long with new mixes in your kitchen!

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Summer

Summer- the days are longer and hotter, the crickets sing at night and the cicadas during the day. The trees are now fully leafed out and in their summer colors and the plants have filled in too. This is when many people's gardens really get going but not mine. Spring is when my garden has to most going on. I do have plants blooming in the summer just not as many as I'd like. Something I hope to change in the coming years.
This year near the end of spring as I was starting to make some progress on weeding & mulching I sprained both my ankles which put the weeding & mulching at a screeching halt. The weeds on the other hand didn't stop their growing and my yard is a mess. Now that my ankles have almost completely healed I've started slowly to attack the weeding again but w/ 3 little kids and #4 due the end of August it's been slow going. I'll do what I can and hope that next year things go better. If I'm up to it in September I'm hopefully going to divide some plants and do a little rearranging but I know most of that will have to wait until next spring also.

Here are some of the flowers that have bloomed or are blooming in my garden this summer:

above were blooming or in bud on 7-11


in bloom or bud on 7-26 and 8-3