Blessings From Home

Nesting Mission-Day 4-Family Room-Updated

I am so glad yesterday was an easy day of cleaning. With only 16 days left until my due date, I am not getting around as swiftly as I'd like to be. To say I look like a waddling duck is an understatement. So far I've managed to get through 4 rooms counting the family room, in 4 days, and the more I get done, the happier I am. I have been so worried that I was going to go into labor before I got at least the main rooms done. But the Lord has allowed me to get all of the main rooms with the exception of the main bathroom completed.

I don't have before pictures of my family room. Today, hubby took off and so we had a bit of a lazy morning, and then we all just quickly worked together to get the family room straightened. This is another room that I have been keeping pretty well maintained, with a few exceptions. So here's pictures of my family room....

Here's the view from one end of the family room. There's our main sitting area, the ugly yellow chair is mine, as is the foot stool. It was my grandpas and a treasured, and most comfy place to sit. I spend much of my time, when I get to sit down, in my old yellow chair rocking my babies, or working on whatever handiwork project I'm trying to get done. To the right is the door that leads into the kitchen, and past that you see my portable dishwasher which is serving a different purpose as tv stand until the insurance adjuster comes to look at our tv that "blew up" a couple weeks ago. Then the little tv will move into the tv cabinet, and my dishwasher, well....may be used as an end table, or if I'm really lucky, maybe a dishwasher. To the left, you can see a few boxes stacked, and I'm ashamed to say that all those boxes holds papers, yes, papers. Of all things in my life, the one thing I've never managed to gain control of is paper clutter. From bills, to important documents, to papers my children have drawn me or made during school, it's all there. I attempt to go through it about once a week or every couple of weeks, but no matter how much I go through and shred, trash, or file, there always seems to be twice as much there the following week. So if anyone has any ideas of a better, easier way for me to handle all the paper clutter, I'd love to hear it.

The door you see  past the tv cabinet leads to the hallway where the main bathroom, and the kids rooms are all at.

Here is the other end of my large family room. This is where our kitchen/homeschool table is at, our computer desk, and all of our homeschool junk necessities are at. You can't see them very well, but past the door that leads to the kitchen are a large set of cabinets that are perfect for storing all of our homeschool material. The bookshelf, which needs to be gone through again is at the end of the table. And the door you see at this end leads into the laundry room, which is where I'll be heading tomorrow.

As I said this room stays pretty clean, if I can just deal with all those papers, and do a bit more decluttering. This is the main hub of our home and the place we all spend the most of our time between meals, family games and tv watching, and homeschool, we practically never leave it most of the day. I would love to find another home for all of our papers until they can all be gone through, which is something I may be able to do as I work through the other rooms in the house. I may be able to find a space in the laundry room tomorrow.

We've been maintaining the other rooms very well, and the kids are gaining much more responsibility as we go along, and more than anything they've been learning to just pick up after themselves as they go along. This has been a great experience for all of us.

As I said tomorrow we'll be working on the laundry room. So we'll see you then, unless I have a baby before....we'll see.

Blessings, sara