In the beginning...

While browsing my Facebook feed yesterday, I stumbled upon an organizing challenge from Organizing Junkie.  I looked around and got a little excited.  My once beautiful office has turned into the mom cave/craft room/storage room/junk room. 

Step one of the challenge is to post "before" pictures.  Hopefully at the end of the 30-day challenge, I'll be proud to show you the "after" pictures.  So, here goes.

The first picture is the doorway into the room.  To the right is an infrequently used garbage can.  Forward is a dresser and a chest of drawers.  And boxes, empty and full.  And a carseat that would be better used in a car...

This second picture is the floor in the middle of the room.  I'm actually kind of proud because, this looks better than it used to, simply because we had friends over the other night and their kids needed someplace to sleep, so I cleared some stuff out of the way.  There's no motivator like people coming over.

 

 

 Thirdly, the desk to the right of my desk.  Yes, two desks.  One for junk, obviously.

 



 A view of the desk and some "storage" to the left.  Is that Pinterest open on my computer?  Whoops.  I guess looking at people's organizing pins got me somewhat motivated too.  On the right is the computer that doesn't work anymore.

Last, this is the jumbled mess from another angle.  The clothes on the dresser are outgrown clothes of my 6 year old girl child, 3 year old boy child and 5 month old girl baby.

This pretty much sums up my brain at this point.  Lots of thoughts of growing children, work, crafty ideas and wannabe hostess with the mostess.

A thought jumbling around in the mess of my mind is that today I want to start being the person I want to be. No more procrastinating being a better person.  My children and husband deserve a peaceful environment and I deserve it too.  I would love for my younger daughter to never know what it's like to live in a disorganized pile of stuff.  I know that's a pretty high hope, but pretty much any step I take is a step up from where I am.