Organize

Organize and toys are two words that just do not go together. I have learned this over the years as I have tried to come up with a solution to the overwhelming amount of toys around my feet at all times. Jon and I decided to switch the linen closet in the bathroom by the family room to a toy closet and teach the kids to put toys back after they use them. We took the blankets and other items down to the basement room closet and transferred some toys upstairs. It has actually worked our pretty well. There are still toys everywhere, but when I ask the kids to clean up they don't whine about having to take stuff downstairs, instead they just take them to the bathroom closet.

The other two reasons we did this are #1 the toy room is also Jon's graveyard sleeping room. And so when the kids wanted toys and dad was sleeping, they just had to wait for him to wake up. Now we have a great selection right by the family room. #2 The toy room is mainly a Lego room and has been for the last while. Sometimes when friends would come over they would destroy things Jon and Calvin were building out of Legos in the toy room it would make Jon and Calvin really upset. Now that we have a lot of toys upstairs, we can just shut the Lego room door if we don't want little hands destroying hours of Lego city work. We also bought a few coffee tables from IKEA to build Lego stuff on, and that takes up a big space in the room. Toys, toys, toys, they are everywhere. But it makes me happy because it means there are cute little kids around too.