4th DAY OF CHRISTMAS - GO AHEAD, LAUGH

So we decided to go to my parents house for New Years. Of course I got nothing done today. Besides traveling 350 miles I needed all day to "wrap things up". I really need to stop putting things off. It didn't help that I had a day less than I thought and I barely found out yesterday. So today was spent frantically getting done all the things I still wanted to do. I didn't succeed but got a lot more done than I expected. Baby was super clingy, but hey, no news.

As the boys made progress in their room thanks to my marvelous input and continued supervision I will declare their room the room of the day. Am I done? No! Of course not. But isn't it so much more fun with all these half finished projects?

I guess I will just hit "pause" on the project. Can't really continue working in my home if I am not there. I will check if there is anything that belongs to me still at my parents house. If I get it all taken care off I will treat myself to an accomplished day! How's that!

1st DAY OF CHRISTMAS - CHANGED PLANS

I should know myself better than to schedule a clean up to start in the middle of a holiday weekend. Besides sleeping until almost 11 I felt like watching movies, not like cleaning up. But guess what. James started cleaning up our bedroom. Before I even got out of bed. I never told him that I have this clean up planned. This way I won't feel like I am watched, or adding extra pressure. So, when James started taking care of all the things I was scared of in the bedroom I decided to change plans. I decided that instead of the upstairs bathroom I would do the bedroom. But guess what, I didn't. I started. Yes. I got about one third done. I could kick myself. What kind of a start is this? Worst of all is that James "cheated". He moved 5 baskets of stuff out. Don't judge. They grew miraculously over night when he clean up the downstairs for Christmas. As he moved them I figured I'll let it pass. Sneaky me. I worked on 2 of the baskets, none finished, started on the laundry room and figured if only I guide the boys a little they might be able to pull their room off by themselves and as agreed upon a few days ago, I get the glory. So. Never finished the room and started 3 others. This is NOT how this is supposed to work. I hope I can get myself back on track with day 2 on Monday and the upstairs bathroom. Fingers crossed.

LASTING RESULTS

My 14 week challenge did NOT go as planned. But guess what. One room has since been clean and orgnanized. Sure. We have the occasional spill of dirty clothes on the floor. Or a pile of toys. But nothing permanent. When I tell the boys to clean up their room, it is done fast. I barely get any whining either. Becasue it is easy and fast. All their things have a place to go. It still needs a few improvements but I have a clear plan of how to  fix it the little glitches. 

It took me weeks to acknowledge it, but obviously the 14 week challenge has brought positive results. I do feel better about it now. Even if it was just 1 room. 

WE DID IT!

The room is clean, the windows washed. I don't think that much was thrown away, but as I said, there wasn't that much to begin with. It was definitely the easiest ob so far. The only thing I did was  wash the window and move the couch. Such a good feeling to have one more room of the list!