Organization is the key!

Our family spent this last weekend organizing the girl's rooms. We removed the lower slats on the bunk beds and moved the double bed underneath the new "loft" bunk. The girls think it is great. (See the pictures on the homepage.) Then the real challange came. We had to move all the toys into Emma's old room and they were all over. The girls never want to clean up because it's too hard. They usually end up shoving stuff here and there. Not anymore! They now have labeled drawers for everything! They even have a drawer with their name on it in case they don't know where to put an item. So far it has worked great. They got a ton of toys out yesterday and cleaned it up themselves without the crying and gnashing of teeth. The main reason we arranged the rooms like this was to get a schoolroom. We now have a place to work and hang things up. Maybe this will inspire us to do school even more!