Closet Confessions

 I love reading the blog, Confessions of a Slob.  It makes me realize that I am not the only one out there that is a slob.  I work at it very hard to keep it under wraps, so shhh don't let my secret out.

So every once in a while, I feel the urge to just completely ignore everything that needs to be done, like educating our children, and clean.  I usually get in these cleaning moods when I am procrastinating, but not today.  Today, I opened a closet door and had had enough.  One of my children, whom shall remain nameless, had recently decided to go looking for treasures in the closet under the stairs.  Her idea of putting those treasures away was to just throw everything in there and quickly shut the door. 

This has happened before so it's nothing new in this home.  *See picture below of our school room closet.*

Not a current picture.  This closet has been gutted and looks pretty and organized...
(unless Emily has been at it again with her wonderful cleaning skills recently and I haven't caught on.)

So, school was left to the girls to take care on their own while I tackled the closet.



I took everything on the floor of the closet and chucked it out in the foyer.
 I had the bright idea to photograph it after an hour or more
of clean up so it was originally worse than this!



I did get everything picked up, put away, or thrown away.
It is cleansing when I just purge junk.

Now if I can just figure out what to do with these left over
decorations from Emily's birthday party.
Any takers?

So, not exactly what I had in mind, but if I had a before pic, you'd see a major difference.
Besides all those boxes of Jay's precious stuff that I am not allowed to mess with,
I moved all of the heavy stuff out of there, making our *safe closet* accessible in case of an emergency.

So, yep, that's what I spent my morning doing.  After that, the girls and I wasted a lot of time viewing home movies that were unearthed in the great cleanup.  That was great!  We needed those laughs.