Child Friendlier Shelves

It took me several months to learn that placing softer, child-friendlier items on the lower shelves benefited our family. A few examples include...

The kitchen's pantry provides endless activities for reorganizing, stacking, sliding items and more. Lighter weight items include Jello or pudding boxes; Ramen noodle packages; small soup containers; herbs or spice bottles; and other light-weight ingredients.

An antique bookshelf used to display a clock, trinkets, DVDs, pictures frames and now a more child-friendly version stores books, stuffed animals, storage containers, etc.

A third example relates to precious scrapbooks in our guest's bedroom. Instead of my primitive style of storing scrapbooks on the bottom shelves, with a bit of rearranging the more appealing books for children are located on the lower shelves. Such reorganizing helps to prevent children's exploration of delicate scrapbooks, and welcomes their curiousity towards more age-appropriate materials.


Here is a final example, with a photo. Our fireplace is not in working order so it was remodeled to store toys. 

Toy storage plus decorations for Valentine's Day!

What storage solutions do you suggest?

I'm Here!

After joking, contemplating, prayer and discussion I have begun to "blog." Goals for this blog include:

• Connect expectant/new mothers with resources in Pittsburgh Area
• Share details about economical & earth-friendly strategies
• Disclose details about preparations for child birth and post-delivery healing
• Provide first-hand opinions about services in area for expectant/new mothers

Please share this blog with those who may be curious or interested in learning more. I feel that we all have so much to learn from one another and at this point, technology is able to allow me to share my experiences, thus far. My faith continues to remain as a constant source of comfort and support amidst personal change and growth. I am blessed to begin with my first post of hopefully many more to come...