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| Damon proudly displays his art folder |
I love being a mom! I have the two most wonderful children in the world! However, there are plenty of challenges to keep me guessing. Before I had kids, I was very regimented about keeping a clean and orderly home. Everything had a place, and everything in its place. Then my first child came along. During my pregnancy, a rough one, I slacked off a bit with the cleaning and organization, promising myself that after the baby was born, I'd get back on schedule. Ha!
Now that I've had my second child, who is now 2 1/2, I've come to appreciate the chaos and clutter that now so beautifully graces my home. But as much as I love having my children's artwork around decorating the doors, walls and refrigerator...at some point we needed to find a way of organizing it, and keeping the mess under control.
This is our solution: We buy a standard sheet of poster board...which are usually 2/$1 at the dollar store. Then the kids decorate them, I add a label including their name, the year, and grade. We fold it in half (decorations on the outside), and staple it together, making a HUGE folder to store all of the papers and crafts they make. It keeps everything together and in its place. The folder is artwork itself, and makes a great keepsake and place to store all the papers that we just can't bear to throw away.
