Spice Clutter, Lasagna

Spice Clutter and Lasagna

I am slowly starting to organize my house.  I just feel when the weekend finally comes that gives me enough time to organize, it just goes way too fast and I accomplish nothing.  Well, this weekend I did accomplish organizing my tiny spice cabinet.  I purchased two spice stair cases from Bed Bath and Beyond.

Before

After

I started to organize the cabinet by removing everything from the cabinet.  I put all the like spices together.  Then I simply started to put the spices back in the cabinet on the new spice stairs.  I put the spices I use most often in front so they were easily seen and accessible.  The cabinet now looks so much better.  Now, just to find time to organize my whole house. :)  

Lasagna

Dinner tonight is Lasagna.  Here is my recipe.

Ingredients:

1 lb. Hamburger

1 package of Lasagna Noodles

1 big jar of Tomato Sauce

3 cups of Mozzarella Cheese (use 2 cups for mixture)

1 cup of Parmesan Cheese

2 cups of Ricotta Cheese 

2 eggs, lightly beaten

Directions

1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.  Cook hamburger and drain.

3. Mix together in a big bowl: Ricotta Cheese, Mozzeralla Cheese, and 2 eggs. 

4.  Place cooked hamburger in bowl and mix it with Tomato Sauce.

5.  Place hamburger and sauce mixture in the bottom of 13" by 9" pan. Just enough to cover the bottom.

6.  Place noodles to cover the hamburger mixture.

7.  Spread cheese mixture over the noodles.  Then add sauce/meat mixture to cover the top.

8.  Again place noodles on top.  Continue to place noodles, cheese mixture, and meat/sauce mixture until the noodles are all gone. 

9.  Cover with aluminum  foil.

10.  Cook in preheated oven for 60 minutes.

11.  Take out of oven and sprinkle 1 cups of Mozzerella Cheese on the top.  

12. Bake 5 more minutes.

13.  Let cool for 10 minutes.  Serve and enjoy!

Hurricane Room

Hurricane Room

Since I am off work today, I decided to tackle Liam's room.  Instead of going to sleep at night, he gets out of bed and plays.  Pulling everything off of his shelves.  Apparently he has a blast considering his room looks like a hurricane hit it.  I couldn't stand walking by it everyday so I thought today I would try to work on cleaning it up.  I tried to have him help, but a 3 year old isn't much help. Here is how it looked. 

Liam's messy room.

 Like I said, a hurricane must have came by.  It was a disaster. 

From the opposite side of the room.

 Yep, this side of the room is a disaster too. 


I decided the best thing to do would be to take all the toys out of his room.  Only leave the big items in there.  Liam did help with this part a little bit.  We moved all the toys to the hallway. 

Liam helping.

 Once everything was moved off the floor and into the hallway, I cleaned his room.  I dusted and vacuumed.  Then I was ready to start digging through the pile of toys and such in the hallway.  I made piles to keep, pack up and put in the garage, throw away, and give to his daycare.  After what seemed like hours and hours we had the pile separated.  We had two garbage bags to put in the attic.  A garbage bag to throw away and a reusable bag full of books to take to daycare.  Now, it is time to start putting the toys back in his room.  I decided to move one of the shelves to inside his closet.  I thought this would work better for him.  Here is an after picture of his closet.

The after closet.

I took out his toy chest and added the blue shelves (blue is his favorite color).  I showed him where he should, crossing my fingers he does it, put his shoes and the different toys that are in his closet. 

The next picture is from his door.  Yay, we found his carpet! :) 

Picture taken from the opposite side looking at his closet.  Again, we found more carpet.  

 This picture is taken by his closet looking at the opposite corner.

Organized shelf.

His room is so organized and cute right now.  I hope he keeps it this way.  I am still trying to teach him to get out one toy at a time and then put it away before he gets the next one out.  Let's hope he keeps it this way.