One More Almost Down

I'm almost done organizing another room. Carson's room will be done tomorrow. I wanted him to go to the store with me today to buy a few containers, and he had his daily temper tantrum because he didn't want to go. I tried to convince him it would be fun for him to help pick out things for his room, but he wasn't buying it. I told him if I went alone I was going to pick all pink and purple containers for his room. He didn't like that idea, but he still didn't want to go. I decided to go alone, but then Mike said he had a few errands to run so we all decided to go. After having such a tantrum over not wanting to go to the store, Carson went wild picking out things at the store that he wanted. After we got home I asked him if he had fun and he said he did. I asked him if it was worth it to have a tantrum over not wanting to go and he said it wasn't. I hope he realizes soon that his tantrums get him nowhere and he stops doing it.

After we got home he was excited to help me, so we went to work. We worked for several hours, then took a break for dinner and started back at it. Finally Carson said he was tired and wanted to go to bed, so I asked him if he cared if I stayed in his room and worked and he said that was fine as long as I dimmed the lights. He fell asleep immediately and I finished up. Tomorrow we are going to remove some things that have been stashed there but don't belong, move all the furniture out, making sure there are no small toys under them, vacuum the carpet and clean the walls. I want Carson to go through all of his papers and decide what he wants to keep. He needs to go through all of his coloring books and workbooks and get rid of some. He has way too many. Then I need to go buy several larger containers than what we have, and fill them up. Lastly, we will put labels on everything.

As I was working on his room, I was thinking about the last time I organized it and remembering how I thought it was so great. Now I realize a lot of the stuff I did just didn't work well. I've learned so much over the last year about organizing and I really think I'm finally doing it in a way that will work and that will last. I cannot wait until my whole house is done. The few rooms I've got done so far are so nice. I don't have to work next week, which means no money, but it also means a lot of time. After Carson's room is done the only other room on the main level that needs to be organized is the family room. Then I want to go through each of the other rooms and just touch up a few things that are bothering me and implement a few more things I've thought of over the last few weeks. I am planning on posting some pictures of my newly-organized main floor, but not until everything is done how I want it. My plan is to be done and have pictures posted by the end of next weekend.

Well, I'm off to read part of one of the five books I have from the library. I must think that getting organized is going to give me more free time to read. I certainly hope that's true.