Make mornings easier

I do a couple of little things to make mornings easier for everyone in my house.  These things also help my husband if I am not around.  One thing I do that leads up to what I will show in this blog is to hang outfits together in the closet.  When I do laundry and hang the clothes, I always hang them as a full complete outfit.  Then if I am not home my husband can go to the closet and get something knowing that it matches.  I am a little crazy and I have a divider.  So after laundry is on hangers I hang everything we have worn behind the divider.  Then only clothes on the other side of the divider are worn until you get to a point where you really need to start over.  This keeps us from over wearing clothes and guarantees we wear everything.  If something isn't worn after a season we can get rid of it knowing we don't like it or it doesn't fit.  Might as well let someone else get some use from it.

Each week I get a full week of clothes ready.  Full outfit, socks, shoes, undies, hairbow and anything else that might be needed.  Then each night we just go over and grab the outfit for the next day.  In the "shoe holder" that I have turned into an outfit organizer I have labeled it by days.  Also, if it is gym day or music day I have added that so I can make sure appropriate clothing is worn that day.  Sunday has two slots.  One for church and another for after church.  On Saturdays Zaylei likes to get her clothes and get dressed so it is best for that one to be low so she can reach it.  This cuts down on morning arguments over what to wear.  It has already been decided.  If I question if anything fits, I try it on when I am putting together the weeks outfits.  It probably takes me 15-20 minutes a week to do this.  Instead of 15-20 minutes every morning and a crying fit.

I keep items in the closet easy to get to as well.  They are organized in catagories easy for a 4 year old and on the bottom shelves.  Some of these things would be in drawers ordinarily but we have these shelves so I decided to utilize them.