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So this is me, avoiding the inevitable. . . the mess that is my kids rooms. It's harder to accomplish this challenge than I originally thought. I fight with getting the kids in there to help out, which is a must, at least part of the time. I know I can clean it better (which I'm doing today while they're at school), but they need to learn how to do it themselves. This is one of those life skills that, if they'll embrace it, will serve them well later in life. . . shoot now, even! I've lost count of the times one of them has come and said, "mom where is my . . . ?" How am I supposed to know? I'm not the keep of . . . whatever. If you'd find a home for it and put it there, yada, yada, yada. One of them tries, he really does, but the other one could care less and that makes it hard to keep it up. But I digress. . . I also fight with the motivation to do anything in there when I see what I've done trashed in a matter of minutes. Which is why I know it's important to get them in on it; it is their room after all. So today, I will follow the advice of my daughter's teacher. Someone she knows used to pick up everything on the floor and put it in a bag and put the bag in the hallway. This way you could see the clean room, the potential of what it should look like. Then one item at a time go through the bag and either find a home, throw it away or put it in a give away bag. We'll see how that works. I've done something similar using a laundry basket but then I'd procrasitnate and the basket would sit there forEVER before I got around to dealing with it. Again, good thing about this challenge and the weekly progress link ups is I'm kind of forced to just keep going instead of giving up.
So, let me upload a picture of what I had the kids doing this past weekend and then get back to it. I'm setting a timer for 1 hour so I don't lose myself in the process and waste my day away when there are other things needing my attention before I need to pick the kids up from school. Ok, so maybe "waste" is not a good word. This will be working for the good of the room, but I need to set limits so that I can get dinner prepped and the bathrooms cleaned, et al.
The picture is of the boys and their older sister. I had work to do so I needed someone to supervise the youngest or nothing would've gotten done. The 8 year old was off doing something initially but when he came back I told my daughter to go back to her room and work on it. Here I have them going through toys to discard or give away and then find a place for the ones they want to keep. Have I mentioned they have WAY TOO MANY toys! Hubby wants to do a garage sale. Me. . . not so much, but for now as long as they're out of the house I don't care. He can have his garage sale. Oops, I'm over my time here. Gotta get crack-a-lackin'!
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| Going through toys with big sisters help. |
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