Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. My name is Lisa Woodruff and I'm a professional

organizer and blogger in Cincinnati, Ohio. I want to help you get your home

organized and help you organize life stages and unexpected events.

So sit back, relax, and let's get organized.

Welcome back to organizing life stages and unexpected events.

Today I want to talk to you about the baby and toddler stage.

So in the last episode I talked to you about how I desperately

wanted children since the time I was a child, got married and started trying to

have children and we found out that we were infertile. We went through the

infertility story and ended up adopting two beautiful babies. And now I want to

pick up from when we adopted that first baby and that whole transition from

being a wife to being a mother and for everyone that transition is different

sometimes it's super easy when you have your first

child but it's hard when you have the second one or third one. For some the first

child is really really hard and every child after that is much easier.

So I'm going to kind of share my story

about how motherhood happened to me

and the organizational strategies I put in place

in the first four years of being a mother to help me be the best wife,

mother, and woman that I could be to the best of my ability.

So the first thing that you will notice when you have children is you are sleep

deprived. Maybe possibly rarely you have a baby that sleeps really well and

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