Over Christmas break we decided to move all three girls into one of the bedrooms and use the other room as a play room. This also left an open landing. My desk/office area had been in a corner in our dining room and I suggested moving the desk and file cabinet upstairs to the landing, so that's what we did.
I thought that was a great idea. It opened up our dining room and gave me my own work space for Thirty-One. The only problem is that the girls thing that means they can play there too because the area is in between the play room and their bedroom. The girls will make forts in this area and try to play in the space under my desk. This is what it looks like at its worst.
Yesterday, after Emery's birthday party (our youngest), my mother-in-law took Teagan and Skylee. Today school was cancelled and while Emery was napping and Mac was playing I decided to conquer
this area. I started with garbage. I grabbed myself a plastic bag and started pitching. In my decluttering process I am not keeping things that are broken that I MIGHT be able to fix at a later time. I just want it GONE. I started throwing away any papers the girls had gotten out/colored/written on and small toys that were broken and not going to be missed. Any toys that needed to go into either the play room or their bedroom went into a box and there was a second box for all of the toys that could be donated.
After this was done, it was easy to get my desk/office area looking good. I will admit that I did not go through the drawers of the desk or file cabinet. That will be for a later time. I just wanted it looking good for now.
Here is my AFTER picture. :-) I was very pleased!!
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