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If you have been reading Toddler Crafts for a while then you have seen a recurrent theme, I am always having to tackle the closets!  It seems that every month or so, each closet needs a tackle again!  My daughter loves to pull all of the things out onto the floor when she is looking for something, making it an immediate mess!!  I feel so much better once it is organized and put back together!

What have you tackled this week?  Share your tackle with us here, it doesn’t have to be house work, it can be a project, report, job etc.

Before the tackle!

After the tackle!

You can get inside and find things, Yeah!

This past week was a crazy busy one for our family!  My son was in a school wide play, which was FANTASTIC!!  But, it required late nights almost every night last week in preparation.  In addition, I volunteered to organize the bake sale for it.  Which added to the chaos.  So Toddler Crafts Tackled keeping up with the school play for the week, but in the end we made it!  It actually was a great experience and wonderful to watch how the Director and Producer pulled it all together.  It’s really amazing how they can take 200 Elementary school children and get them to all do their part in the play and pull off a very professionally done performance in the end.  I was so proud watching my son up on stage, so calm!!  The Bake Sale was also a success so overall this was a good tackle!

This week we are tackling the snow AGAIN!! This winter is has been very snow filled for sure!! The kids definitely are loving it and I don’t mind a little snow, but I have definitely had enough!! I am lucky that my husband does the brunt of the shoveling (ok, All the shoveling) so I don’t typically have to kill my back every time it snows.

photo credit: sneakerdog

In our effort to tackle the snow, we have our snowpants at the ready, and the kids are enjoying running around and sliding down their sleds in the snow.  Today we took out our daughters bike, because the road was cleared and let her ride up and down it.  Some other things you can do to tackle these long snow days…

• Bake Cookies
• Make Homemade Playdough
• Make some crafts
• Read some books
• Break out the board games, we played a fun one today called “guess who?”
• Have playdates
• Go Bowling
• Go to the library and get some new books and/or movies
• Get food coloring and mix it with water in a spray bottle and spray the snow different colors

This winter feels LONG and I am yearning for Spring!!  I can’t wait to be able to bring the kids to the park again, go for a walk and just sit outside enjoying the fresh air.  But in the meantime, I will tackle the snow!!

What are you tackling?

photo credit: alancleaver_2000

This week for tackle it Tuesday at Toddler Crafts I tackled TAXES!  YUCH!  I had been putting it off but, it was time to tackle it!!  I have an accountant actually do the taxes but I do ALOT of preparation before I give it to her.  Putting all the receipts together, adding up all the possible deductions etc, takes quite a bit of time.  My accountant gives a great worksheet for me to fill out, and it helps me think about what she needs, but it takes a while to prepare!  It is more complicated now that I have my online Freebie Trading Business to account for.  It took all day but, I am pleased to say, it is almost done!!  Just need a couple of details and I can hand it in!! Yeah!

What did you tackle this week?  How do you handle your taxes?

This week we tackled our first cub scout pine wood derby.  Having never experienced a Cub Scout Derby before, I wasn’t sure what to expect or where to start.  So of course, I googled it!  This led me to some very detailed information on how the cars go faster and the complexities of Derby car design!!  Thanks to Grandpa, he helped carve it for my son, we had a start on what I thought was going to be an impossible project!  After googling it, I discovered roughly how and where to weight the car (apparently you need to weight it to make it faster!).  My son and I painted it and it awaited race day!  My only hope was that it would be in the heat and not last continuously so that he didn’t feel badly.

Well, I needn’t have worried, it not only didn’t come in last but, it won!!  My son was so proud of his trophy and we are on to the derby regionals!!  So this has been a successful tackle and a learning experience!