Well...I went to bed last night totally exhausted and thinking on all I had written. But NOT totally and hopelessly overwhelmed and ready to cry...which is one step up from the past. And woke up this morning with 3 of my kids and a dog in bed with me (wish I could train that dog to sleep on the floor). I had a nice little chat with my packrat-inclined girls while the baby jumped on the dog (not budging from his "spot" on my bed). While they are not ready to relinquish any of their stuff, they did agree with me that playing in a clean room is MUCH nicer than playing in a messy room. (Hey...it's a step in the right direction...)
Now which room to start in first...I'm almost say the "easiest" would be best, but the "easiest" is not the most urgent. And what to do about the clothes...I have 6 children... 3 girls, 3 boys. They all get "hand-me-downs" from the older ones, but they also seem to get a lot of new things too. So you can imagine that the youngest girls & boy have a TON of clothes by the time they get into that size. My dilemma is trying to figure out the "ideal" amount of outfits/clothing that they need without overwhelming the laundry room (or the "Laundry Lady"...A.K.A. me ). I know there must be someone somewhere who has figured this out and recorded it for future generations, but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere. It seems that half the mess in their rooms is clothes...but the laundry room (which is the envy of my friends...very large) always seems overflowing too. I joke with my husband that if I washed and folded all the clothes we own, there wouldn't be a place to put them all...and the bad part is I KNOW I'm right. There's got to be a solution.
Unfortunately, in order to deal with the clothes there has to be a clean place in the kids rooms to sort/organize it...so may that should be my first area to "attack"...the toys. If it wasn't for the fact that I really could actually see my house being neat, clean, tidy and organized (like it has been in the past), it might drive me to quit at the sheer overwhelming task ahead of me. But God is not a God of disorder and chaos...he wants all things to be done decently and in order...no matter how long it takes.
Welcome to my blog...Why "gidget"? Well...my husband tried to teach me how to surf before we were married. I was lousy at it, but he called me his "gidget" and the name stuck.
Why "Treasure Trove"? I love sharing about my sweet little "treasures"...and God has blessed me beyond measure....and no, I didn't mean that to rhyme.
And woke up this morning with 3 of my kids and a dog in bed with me (wish I could train that dog to sleep on the floor). I had a nice little chat with my packrat-inclined girls while the baby jumped on the dog (not budging from his "spot" on my bed). While they are not ready to relinquish any of their stuff, they did agree with me that playing in a clean room is MUCH nicer than playing in a messy room. (Hey...it's a step in the right direction...)
). I know there must be someone somewhere who has figured this out and recorded it for future generations, but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere. It seems that half the mess in their rooms is clothes...but the laundry room (which is the envy of my friends...very large) always seems overflowing too. I joke with my husband that if I washed and folded all the clothes we own, there wouldn't be a place to put them all...and the bad part is I KNOW I'm right. There's got to be a solution.
