These are the words that greeted me this morning!  My 6 yo has been counting down the days until Spring for about 2 wks now.  If I were the Betty Crocker mom I would like to be, we would have celebrated w/ spring cookies or a cake and a walk in the park or something of that nature, but instead I decluttered the girls' room!

This was very rewarding for me and the girls were thrilled as well--especially since they didn't see all that left their room to soon take up residence in either the trash can or the thrift store!

My 6 yo is eclectic, a free-spirit, a pack rat.  Everything is beautiful to her and everything must be kept indefinitely.  Her walls and door are covered in pictures she has colored or drawings she has done, or sentences she has carefully written out.  There are ribbons from discarded presents adorning her walls and 2 strips of rainbow colored fleece have been fashioned into a cross taped next to her bed.  Every photo I allow her to have from my scrapbooking cast-offs either goes into her own little scrapbook, or finds their way onto her shelves, walls, and anywhere else she can shove them.  There are rocks and bits of colored glass and pottery that are stashed away in makeshift boxes and pencils and paper are tucked in secret places where her 2 yo sister won't find them (she hopes).  Clutter reigns supreme and she is the queen of this cluttered domain!

But today the Regent took over for a bit--just to set the queen back on track.

I rearranged and reorganized and got rid of things that were just taking up space.  It should be much easier for her to clean her room now.

The funny thing was, as I was doing this, the 2 yo kept peaking in to say, "Don't touch sissy's stuff!"  Hmmmm....me thinks the queen hath a little spy...and I fear, a little prote'ge'!