Spring Cleaning

At the risk of completely embarrassing myself, I am going to post pictures of what has gone on in my house this week!

Between vacation, having bronchitis, being pregnant, having 3 small children, trying to reorganize kids clothes and trying to prepare some space for the new baby to join us...our upstairs got a bit crazy!

I am not exaggerating. My bedroom became the catch all for laundry and anything else that needed sorting and the girls room...well...it was mayhem.

I have a huge list of things that I have been trying to work on slowly but it often seems like I can never complete one thing without starting another and so on and so forth.

Well, Monday morning I ended up having some meetings that I needed to go to that were completely stressing me out (really for no reason in hindsight). Tom surprised me and checked a few things off of my list...and somehow accomplished these things with all three girls in tow.

I don't have before pictures (because he does not think like a blogger) but the girls room was a complete disaster! Clothes everywhere...clean and dirty. Keira and Libby's beds were separated and Janessa's crib was on the other side of the room.

Tom re-bunked the beds while I was gone...made the girls pick up all of their clothes and got all toys out of their room! I cannot explain how happy I was when I came home. I vacuumed, dusted and scrubbed things down and together, we made this happen!

 This will be the girls side of the room. Janessa will be getting a new white crib that will eventually convert to a toddler bed and the dark brown crib will be for baby boy. Although we switched both other girls to a bed by the time they were 18 months with no issues, Janessa is a different breed. Also, when they switched, there were not bunk beds with a ladder in the room and also, when Libby went to a bed, Keira could not yet open the bedroom door so I did not have to worry about them getting out.

Oh well...so we'll have 2 cribs...not the end of the world if it keeps everyone safe!

Here is the side of the room that I still have to deal with..baby boys side. YIKES!

And the closets...EEEK!

Then came our bedroom...believe it or not, I didn't take the before pictures before I actually started doing stuff because I didn't think of it...so yeah...it was worse than this!

 But now it is so clean! (Though I definitlly need to fix the now crooked wall hangings and center them over the bed again!)

and rearranged....and dusted...and vaccummed...and most important...ready to bring in the pack n' play for baby boy to stay with us until he sleeps the same(ish) hours as the girlies!

It is completely embarrassing how much dust was around the floor on the carpets...especially under the furniture. I am thinking that my allergies are going to see a drastic improvement since dust is one of my big ones!

Vacuuming upstairs in our house is I think the hardest chore to accomplish with kids. The best time I have to get stuff done is when Janessa is napping....which kind of rules out vacuuming the upstairs.

So...if any of you have any bright ideas on how to make that easier...let me know! haha