This Would Qualify As A Really Big Fix

An organization fix that is.

Some of you might remember I was desperate for one while we were in the apartment waiting to close on our house. Well, this one was a doozy:




You might also remember that this is what the more pristine room looked like prior to my attack on it:

I'm one of those people that has to "see" everything when they are organizing it, so when I unpacked all the school boxes and books, they got piled in the room. Obviously there was some overflow.

The pile of games in front of the brown armoire became this:

I tell you I was almost giddy with the high! That and I needed to actually be able to walk to the threshold of the room. Peka is trying to decide if Scooby-Doo is a threat to him or not.

And the rest of that mess chaos organizational planning became this:







That's what four kids and 9+ years of homeschooling gets you. And kudos if you noticed we added an additional four-cube square cabinet to the original plan.

On the off chance that you think I can be completely done in that room, although it is so close I can taste it, here are the two tiny things I still need to do. Number one, the piano, but I don't have a lamp anymore for it since several bit the dust in the move, so I'm sort of using that as an excuse.

And two would be these six cubes that have the current year's books for our Tapestry of Grace. I need to organize them by level and then week, unit, or multi-year.

I saw a couple of you had put up fun little polls during the holidays, although they were closed by the time I saw them. I thought it would be interesting to do one and see how long everyone thought it took me to get this room from the original state of pretty much not being able to step foot into it to what it looks like now. Days in the poll means it took a good part of my day, about five or more hours. So what do you think?