Clean Sweep

Have you ever seen the show Clean Sweep?  You know, the one where they take a cluttered space, clean it up, and redo it?  Well, Tommy's room was in desperate need of a clean sweep.  

Since Jake has been born, I have been in survival mode.  I am not known for having good, easy babies, so Jake has understandably been taking up a lot of my time and energy.  Because of this, I have had to let some things "go."  Well, one of the things to go was my enforcement of Tommy picking up his room.  After 5 and a half weeks, this was the result:

Closet.

This is the view from the doorway.  When I went to check on him at night, I would see this and often opt not to enter his room to tuck him in and give him his customary kiss on the head.

The Corner:  When I would tell Tommy to pick up his room, his solution was to throw all of his toys up in this corner.

Honestly, I'm a little embarrassed posting these pictures.  The rest of my house doesn't look like that---really!

This weekend my boys went to Seattle to be with Tim's family because his parents just came home from their mission.  Yay!  I took this opportunity to get this room cleaned up.  it took 3 days (remember, I'm working with a 2 year old and a newborn here!), but I got it done!

I got rid of an almost full black garbage bag of trash filled with old broken toys and "collections" of paper, wood, etc.  I also got about half a bag of things to donate to Goodwill.  I raised his bed and put more storage under it.  And finally, I got new shelving to keep his toys organized.  Here is the after:

Closet with new shelving.

Ahhh . . . isn't this so much better?

See the corner in the back?  Is it the same one as before?

Now we just need to make it stay this way and I will be able to tuck him in without worrying about tripping over something!