My Room-by-Room blogging buds and I are talking about kids' rooms today. Kids' rooms. Hmmmm. Month before last, it was the master bedroom and that was traumatic enough. Now let's add Mommy Guilt to the mix. I have purged and re-arranged and organized and re-organized my kids' rooms many times in this never-ending deslobification … [Read more...]
I JUST decluttered. That’s it.
A few weeks ago, I was attending a Harlem Globetrotters reenactment. The reenactment took place in my boys' room, and it was in the midst of the show that I finally grasped what was really going on during those moments when the answer to my yelled-across-the-house questions of "WHAT are you doing in there?" was a simple, "We're just playing … [Read more...]
An Eighteen Minute Project
It was supposed to be an all-morning-long project. But then shopping took two-and-a-half hours and bathrooms needed scrubbing. I set the timer for an hour. But then something-or-other distracted me, and suddenly the timer only had thirty minutes left. I walked into the boys' room, determined to make however small-or-large a dent I could … [Read more...]
My Little Girl’s Room Is Organized . . . Am I on a Roll Here?
I shared on Friday that after being so proud of myself for organizing the garage, I ended up in a funk when the very next day, a desperate search for tap shoes made me unable to deny that my daughter's room had . . . once again . . . ended up in a state of chaos. Bigtime chaos. Such bigtime chaos and such a bigtime funk that I didn't even … [Read more...]