Baby Steps

This organizing project is taking me longer than expected. I'm leaning on God for patience because I have the tendency to want it all...NOW. But these things take time. I got most of her bookshelf cleaned off (just not the top, which has a few piles...like how I conveniently left it out of the picture!). I pulled off all of the books that were either damaged beyond repair or too young for her. I decided to leave her puzzle where they are on the top shelf for easy access for her and not so much for Caleb.

I still need to think of some things for the shelves that are empty. Any suggestions?

Here's the basket of stuff that will go to Caleb's room (that's the next organization project):

And that's all I've done so far. I have piles right now: one of things to throw away, one of things that I might give to Caleb and a pile of things that I may donate.

I have decided that I'd like to do a board in her room so that she can put up pictures of her friends and art that she does or art that her friends give her. You know those boards have ribbon in Xs where you put things and don't have to use tacks? So I'll be on the hunt for that this week and the letters for her name.

I did also clean out my kids' cabinet...you know the one that has their plates and cups and snacks. I don't have a before picture because I didn't know I was going to do it until I was in the middle. You know how that happens, something falls out and you get frustrated that the cabinet is so stuffed that you end up pulling everything out and organizing. That's what happened to me today. Here's the end result (which only took about 10 minutes!):

I do have a plan to have a cuter snack container (see my boring one up at the top on the right?). I'd like to have a container where I can use rub-ons that say "Snacks." But I'm not to the kitchen yet...I say that to remind myself...to think of Jamison's room right now! Patience!