Well I obviously am not good at blogging daily.  But I do try to come up with something interesting to say.  Today I noticed I had a response to my last blog and I was so excited!  Someone actually read what I wrote!  Thank you for the response!

So today I had a question to ask and I am hoping that someone out there will give me some guidance on this.  :) 

I will freely admit I was raised a very spoilt only child.  At least in the respect to what my three children would see.  I grew up in a 4 bedroom, two bathroom house.  Just my parents and I.  I never had to share a room, never had to wait for a bathroom, and never was anything crowded in our home.  I believe the house was only 1500 -1700 sq feet or so, but it only had 3 people living in it, so it seemed rather large, and compared to the home I have now, well......it was larger. 

I have yet to figure out how to organize a shared bedroom.  Organization was not a strong point of mine a child or teen.  I remember we moved into an apartment my junior year as my parents built their new very large home (5,000 sq ft).  The apartment was just a 2 bedroom and 1 and a 1/2 bath home.  It was still fine for us, though I had a freezer in my bedroom and the large roll-away bed from the old houses spare bedroom.  Everything of mine was mostly in storage.  But I did not have to get rid of anything, because in the new home there would be room for it all.  So no need to organize or get rid of things, just pack them up an save them for the year.  And that is what we did.

I remember marrying my husband and moving "some" of my stuff to his home. He had a two bedroom 1100 sq ft trailer.  With two baths.  I filled his cupboards and his closets.  Never thinking I had to much "stuff". 

Now I look around me and I think "we have TOO MUCH STUFF"  and I am not quite sure what to do about it.  :)  Mostly I can clean up and organize and I am getting better at getting rid of things.  But my big problem is my sons room.  I love the idea of a large family and I don't think my home is too small, just to cluttered.  :)  But how do I decide what things to not have in the boys room?  How do I convince them of the value of sharing that room and loving and respecting eachother.  :)  I can tell them how much God wants them to love and respect eachother and I can read them scriptures, but I know when they head into their cluttered room, even they get frustrated.  I want them to know the value of being siblings, the value of having eachother.  See I can't give them a home as large as the one of my childhood, (though mine was up for sale at the same time this one was, and in our price range, just noone purchased this one)  But I can give them eachother and a respect for eachother. 

They have the one thing I did not have as a child, siblings.  :)  Now I can tell you I am not sure if I would have enjoyed sharing a bedroom or not.  I had the second largest room in the house and boy did I like my "stuff".  I don't necessarily see that as a good characteristic in me either.  :) 

So my question today is how do you organize a small room with two rambunctious boys and all their things in it?  How do you as a parent convince those boys of the value of respecting eachother and eachothers belongings?  And how do you convince them that it is okay to get rid of stuff?