Blessings From Home

Nesting Mission-Day 7-Boy's Room-Updated

I pray you all had a blessed weekend! Ours was quiet except for the unexpected collision with the deer on Friday night. We spent Saturday evening at my parent's home watching OU Football, and I proudly say We Won! Not that I really care, but for hubby's sake, I put on a caring face. lol.

So with 3 days left until Thanksgiving, and 3 rooms left to clean, I am working away on my little mission. The last 3 rooms are the bedrooms, one being the girl's room, one is the boy's room, and the last is the playroom, which for now houses more crafting supplies and junk than toys.

I decided to start with the boy's room today, because it is one of the more visible rooms from the living room, and it also houses all the baby clothes and things, so if I can get it done then I'll feel much better. Tomorrow I'll move on to the girl's room, and then I'll face the dreaded playroom on Wednesday. So here is my daily goal list for today...

~Regular Routines

~Basic Homeschool with kids

~Maintain Cleaned Rooms-Kitchen, Living/dining room, Master bed/bathroom, family room, laundry room, bathroom, hallway

~Clean the boys room top to bottom

~Make a run to the grocery store. I usually go on Thursdays, but I'm going to go ahead and make my list today and get it done, so I don't have to mess with the crowds as much.

So without further ado, here is the boy's very messy room.

This isn't the best shot of their room, but the room is small and square, so it's hard to get all the angles. To the left is Nick's bed, a captain's bed. There is a dresser underneath, but also behind that is lots of storage. And at the end of the bed is a built in desk.  Right beside his bed, just inside his door is a small night stand with his pet hamster's cage, and his hamper. Directly to the right is their closet, which is fairly large, not huge, but big enough for 2 boys, and then there is baby boy's crib, and beside it is his dresser. The main thing that needs doing is toys gone through and everything put where it needs to go. The boxes you see there is my hubby and son's baseball cards, which can be stored away, the gray tub holds all of Nick's summer clothes. So now I'm off to get some work done, and I'll post pictures of the finished product this evening or tomorrow.

***Daily Update***

Here is the completed pictures of the boys room.

It took me the bulk of the day to go through everything. You see, my son, God love him, is a hoarder. He saves every scrap of paper, every box from everything he's ever gotten. From this small room, I managed to get rid of a large 13 gallon bag full of trash, and a large box full of toys. He was so thrilled with the finished room, and promised me, he would always keep it that way. I told him that if I found one toy out of place, that it would go away to a little boy who would take care of it.

Here's a better view of the baby's bed and dresser.

And here's a better view of Nick's captains bed.

Today was a tiring day, and the rest of the week promises to continue much in the same way. The main thing I've come to realize is my children have entirely too many toys. I'm not sure though, that I can go through and get rid of a bunch of things at once, without dealing with some heavy crying on my children's part. So I'm going to work through their rooms one grocery sack at a time. Maybe only filling one a week, but I will definately be getting rid of a lot of toys. And once all of their rooms are cleaned, if they don't take care of their things they will automatically go away. For the longest time they had the excuse of not knowing what to do with it all, but they all know now that mom has found a place for everything and everything WILL go back in it's place or it WILL go away. So now to move on to the next to last room on my nesting mission...the girl's room...

Blessings,

sara