The toothbrushes are downstairs

Yep, they are. In the guest bathroom of all places. And now that you're wondering what I'm talking about....I'll indulge. So I had this slight problem. We spend most of our time as a family downstairs. The kids do everything down here except sleep and take a bath. Most of the time, they even get dressed downstairs both in the morning and evening. So when it was time to brush teeth, the toothbrushes were upstairs. Instead of them brushing twice a day, it was usually just once. Not good at all if you're trying to instill good dental practices. They had no problem brushing when it was time, but mom was just lazy. *shame*

I follow several mom blogs and one that I read recently was talking about how hard it was for her to keep up with laundry because she hated the task of folding her 5 boys clothes and them putting them away....upstairs. She and her husband decided that since the laundry room was connected to their closet and it was a huge closet, they would move their kids dressers downstairs into the closet and hang up their clothes there. Therefore making the whole process easy and never having to worry about piles of clothes waiting for attention because they could be put up as soon as they were cleaned. That got me to thinking about teeth brushing. What if I moved the toothbrushes downstairs????? Hmmm....yep. I decided to try it and it's working. Yay! Good clean teeth at least twice a day. Of course since they are in the guest bathroom I have to be ready in case we have some drop ins but that's no prob. Grab and throw in our bathroom and we're good to go.

In other news, it's a 4 day wknd. Woohoo! I love these. 4 days of no work. So far, not sure what we're going to do for the 4th of July but I'm pretty sure we'll grill before the weekend is out. The weather has been nice here for the past few days since we've had some light showers so it makes being outside actually bearable. I'm hoping we can chill with some friends and neighbors but we'll have to see.