Oh my gosh! My oldest daughter walked in the house about an hour ago with two icey chocolate drinks! She is working as a barista in a coffee shop and is always making new things. Well, I haven't made any big anouncement to the family about trying to lose weight so she had no idea. It was a frozen hot chocolate! I tasted it and thanked her, had a few small sips before she left for classes, and now I am headed to the sink to get rid of it! I wouldn't want to hurt her feelings and it was really good. But the best part is, just a couple weeks ago I would have caved in and drank it all!.....but I didn't! We even have oreo truffles and choc covered peanuts in the house that I made 2 weeks ago to clean up left over Christmas baking ingredients and I have only had one of the choc peanuts. Usually if there is chocolate around I can't quit eating it till it is gone. I know with 3 teenagers in the house and my husband I am going to have to just learn to ignore the junk food.
Now I am off the make a yummy grilled chicken salad for lunch.
Tru, I know how you feel. There are 5 of us living in a small house with absolutely no storage! We bought this place looking more at the irrigated pastures for our horses and didn't notice how little storage there was. We also only had one child at the time. I am sure you are already using all of the space in your cabinets and dressers. I don't know if you have any room to do this but one thing I did was buy some bankers boxes from a office supply or apple boxes from a grocery store would work also, just so they are all the same size. I sorted my fabric by colors and marked the boxes. them I stacked a row of them about waist high and covered them with a nice sheet and I have my cutting mat and pressing board on it. It is kind of a pain to get to my fabrics but I don't do that too often so its ok for now. They hold alot of stuff but I don't know if you have an area to do that in. I have a friend that stacked her boxes in a corner and hung curtains on the two sides in the room, when she wants in there she ties the curtains back and it really looks kind of cute. Hope this gives you some ideas.