Are you the creative type who places your shoes where your hat should go, and your car keys where your cup usually sits?
I've always had a special way of arranging things. When I was a teen Mom used to come into my room, see my papers piled all over the floor, and start throwing things away. Eek! Those were my precious stories, notes, and idea prompt images! For years, I couldn't understand WHY she would do that. Didn't she get she was destroying my sense of order?
Now, many years later and as a mom, I get it.
We can function with chaos in our home (empty milk jugs piled to go out for recycling, markers and pens scattered across the school table, scraps of paper from recent project littered across the floor, laundry piled in baskets in the corner), but I find my sense of cool goes "poof". I snap at the kids more. I freak out about the little things. I feel like a failure and start panicking about how behind I am.
Conversely, when my house is spotless, I'm an angel, the kids love each other, and we all breathe easy.
Have you had similar experiences? How do you establish order in your house?
Now, many years later and as a mom, I get it.
Organization.
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| Picture courtesy of Carnivore Locavore |
Conversely, when my house is spotless, I'm an angel, the kids love each other, and we all breathe easy.
Have you had similar experiences? How do you establish order in your house?
