Organization Day

 

I've been feeling overwhelmed by Tyler's toys for a very long time.  I've always admired my friends and how they've organized their children's toys.  We have had no organization ever.  When I would clean, Tyler would wake up, look around, & say, "It's so clean!" followed by his favorite phrase, "I love to make a mess!"  Within minutes, every toy would be on the floor.  :-)  Therefore, I've had little motivation to clean every night.  I knew I really needed a day where we just cleaned and organized and this week we had a really rainy day that was a perfect day to stay inside.  First I organized every single toy on our middle floor (where most of them are).  Tyler has A LOT of cars and trucks!  We organized all of the cars by color and put everything in bins.  I put half of his toys in storage, where I can easily get them whenever he wants them.  But we're really going to try playing with one or two bins at a time, then cleaning those toys up, before we take out more toys.  I put all of his characters in one bin and was amazed how he sat and played with them.  He took one bin of trucks into the kitchen to play, then when he was finished, he cleaned all of them up and we put them away.  Why didn't I do this sooner?!  :-)