Susie Lake

Decluttered our activity cabinet! After a great first year of homeschooling and tons of arts and crafts, this cabinet really needed some attention before summer. My plan was to declutter and take out anything that isn’t in good shape and things we aren’t currently using and make note of some things that I need to restock. I got rid of all the play dough that was in bad shape and I’m planning to restock that. I’m also going to re-do their kinetic sand sensory bins. My girls have loved these so much but they are really in rough shape so I’m excited to re-do them for this summer. I also have a handful of basic art supplies I want to refresh. I’ll plan to share a restock video soon of everything I add in here so we are set for a great summer! This activity cabinet is seriously such a life saver for me so I love keeping it organized and well stocked for the girls! #declutter #decluttering #declutterwithme #declutteryourhome #declutteringtips #declutteringformentalhealth #cleanwithme #organizewithme #organizedhome #activitycabinet #activitiesforkids #summerwithkids #summeractivities #artsandcrafts #momtipsandtricks #momlife #declutterwithme

Decluttered our shoes today. I can’t believe I let this closet get this like, but also I have to tell you why. Right before we left on our trip to Florida, both of my girls had switched shoe sizes. I also hadn’t transitioned between winter shoes to summer shoes so I literally had this closet stuffed with shoes and never went through to get rid of the ones we no longer needed. So I had old sizes, winter and summer shoes, and new shoes I bought before our trip here, not to mention way too many of my shoes that I normally keep upstairs in my closet. And once we got back from our trip, instead of taking care of the closet first, I just dumped all of the shoes in here 🫣 We’ve literally just been surviving with this mess so today I finally took care of it! Once I got through all of the sizes we no longer needed and organized all of the shoes into pairs, it was so easy to get it put away properly in our shoe organizer! I love this shoe organizer that we have in this closet. It’s the perfect size and holds so many shoes! It usually makes it so easy to keep this closet organized because the kids can easily get and put away their shoes- as long as I stay on top of getting rid of shoes once they no longer fit 😂 #declutter #decuttering #declutteringtips #howtodeclutter #declutteryourhome #cleanwithme #organizewithme #declutterwithme #cleaningmotivation #declutteredhome #declutteringformentalhealth #shoecloset #shoeorganization #shoeorganizer

A little cup of sunshine is the perfect way to say thank you to your kid’s teacher at the end of the year. I started with this cute lemon glass from Amazon and filled it with a handful of yellow goodies like a facemask, eye patches, hand lotion, chocolates, a lip balm and an adorable daisy hair clip. Then I added a lemon keychain to the side. You can really be creative and add anything yellow that you think they would love! These reusable daisy gift bags are perfect to put everything in. I love how this turned out! #teachergift #endoftheyeargift #teacherappreciation #diygift #cupofsunshine #giftideas #simplegift #momlife #diyteachergift #teachergiftideas

Decluttered the small cabinet we have in our dining room! ✨ So many things in here were from Christmas time like the candle stick holders, Christmas tree candles, and other little decor items. I wanted to get these out of here and pack them away. I have also been storing broken candle sticks here. I had ordered a few sets of these pink candle sticks and most of them came broken. I did get a refund but for some reason, I still kept all of the sticks. So those went in the trash finally. This is a small cabinet but also the only storage we have in our dining room. I wanted it to be a place for my recipe books and our new family recipe binders. We’ve also been storing Austin’s on the go coffee cups here. I’ve had this acrylic organizer for a while because I planned to use it somewhere else but it didn’t work out. It works perfectly to store these cups, lids, and straws though! And now I think this space is being used so much better now! #declutter #decluttering #decutteringtips #declutterwithme #declutteryourhome #organizewithme #cleanwithme #declutteredhome #declutteringformentalhealth #kitchenorganization #diningroom #diningroomcabinet

Teacher appreciation is coming up and these are perfect to put together for your kid’s teacher! ✨ This is the gift we did for teacher appreciation last year and I loved how they turned out! It's really easy to put together and Emily’s teachers loved them! #teacherappreciation #teacherapprecationweek #teachergift #teachergiftideas #teacherappreciationgift #diygift #diyteachergift

Proactive >>> reactive ✨ I love having good routines and systems in place. So I’m working on creating and improving systems to keep our home and family running well! #homesystem #homeroutine #habitsofsuccess #routines #cleaningroutine #mealplanning #momroutine #routines #habits #planning #homemanagement #homemaker #sahm #homemakingroutine #susiehomemaker #planningformoms #productivity #productivemom #productivityhacks #momhacks #motherhood

Tell me I’m not the only one who gets so overwhelmed and questions everything at this point in decluttering 😂 This is the biggest reason I declutter one small space at a time. I used to attempt an entire room at once and I would never actually make progress because by the time everything was pulled out, I would be so overwhelmed that I would end up just putting it all back. Even small spaces like this can still feel overwhelming but once I get through the initial panic, it goes quickly and I love that I can see the progress I make in a short amount of time. #declutter #decuttering #declutteringtips #howtodeclutter #declutteryourhome #cleanwithme #organizewithme #declutterwithme #cleaningmotivation #declutteredhome #declutteringformentalhealth

Deluttered our TV stand in the living room! We store the girls’ downstairs toys here and this is long overdue! I honestly don't love keeping toys in our living room but since we live in a townhouse, we just don't have a ton of options for play space for the girls. So most of their toys are in their rooms but we also keep some down here. My goal is to make it more for board games, puzzles, books, and things we can do as a family and then keep the rest of the toys upstairs. Anyone else struggle with a crazy amount of little pieces for toys that you have no idea what they go to or if you even have them anymore? Those drive me crazy! I definitely found a ton of those in these baskets today 😵‍💫 I'm happy with how this cabinet looks now. I feel like everything in here makes sense downstairs for our family. We will see how long I can keep out all of the random toys that belong upstairs though 😂 #declutter #decluttering #declutterwithme #declutteryourhome #declutteringtips #declutteringformentalhealth #cleanwithme #organizewithme #organizedhome #toyorganization #activitiesforkids #momlife #momtipsandtricks

A little Friday cleaning motivation ✨ Started summer with everyone being sick in our house 😵‍💫 I’m so thankful that we’re all feeling better finally! I’m desperately trying to get the germs out of our house so I’ve been doing some deep cleaning. I’ve been wanting to use my @BISSELL Clean little green machine on Anna’s chair for so long and there were also some spots on her carpet that I wanted to clean so I got that done. And then I did a quick tidy in her room because we’ve really just been in survival mode this week and it’s gotten messy. This did make me realize it is time to do some decluttering in both my girls’ rooms. They’ve definitely outgrown some of their toys and things in their rooms that are just taking up space and making it way too hard to clean up. I want them to really feel like they can clean their own rooms without getting overwhelmed and it’s just hard right now with too much stuff. #speedclean #deepcleaning #cleaningmotivation #cleanwithme #momcleaning #cleaningroutine #cleaningafterbeingsick #momof2 #littlegreenmachine #tidytok #declutter