Friday, June 5, 2009

Start Fresh

Ending the school year sounds easy enough. The kids come home from school that last day, maybe you take some photos and take them out for lunch or make a special end-of-the-school-year snack. They stay up late that night knowing they don't have to get up early the next morning (but if you have little ones you know they still get up early anyway.)

But, is that really all you have to do?

Are the kids school backpacks laying on the floor filled with wrinkled papers their teacher made them clean out from their desk? Are there mashed packs of cheese on wheat crackers in the bottom of their bag left from school snacks they didn't eat because of end-of-year celebration parties? Maybe there's even a leaking juice box in there along with the yearbook you paid for so your child can remember friends.

Like most things, the work for the kids is done-they're home to have fun. But a mom's work doesn't end there.

This weekend I'll be posting some tips for how to clean out last year's school things before summer vacation starts so you'll be able to relax and enjoy the start of summer as much as your kids do.

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