Organized at last

I love seeing the preschool papers that Karsten brings home from Gail's. It's fun to see how his coloring and writing skills are progressing, and we like to talk about what he is learning.

I started off by tucking all of his school papers into a cute magazine holder I found at Target. I had two of them and thought it should last me a while. HA - those quickly filled up and I began a pile of school papers on the desk in Karsten's room. I knew I needed to sort them and determine which ones I wanted to keep, but I had no idea how I wanted to tame the chaos.

A few Google searches later, I decided to use this idea I found on the I Heart Organizing blog. I love her blog - anytime I read it, I feel motivated to organize something in our house. Plus, she was making it so easy, I could just print her labels and papers then VOILA, organization. For each year of school, I would insert the papers I wanted to archive, add a school picture to the folder and I am set.

The labels and the papers were the easy part. Sorting through all of his papers was the hard part. Luckily, Scott helped me, otherwise I would still be sitting at the table agonizing over which papers to toss. We took pictures of a lot of papers and art I wanted to remember but not necessarily keep. We decided to buy two file boxes and make two sets of labels, folders, etc to ensure I would do the same thing for Liam. :)

Here is the end result before I added Karsten's papers and put the box away.  It makes me so happy!