It's been a crazy busy time in our life this year. We started our first year of homeschooling which has been an amazingly rewarding, but challenging experience. I am still working 24-36 hours per week at my job as a Registered Nurse at Urgent Care and now our latest venture, the start of our YouTube channel organizedMOM. To say the least, there have been many times when I have felt "less than organized"! The perfectionist in me struggles to maintain the order that I crave in my household. Each day has brought with it a mountain of emotions and obstacles that have to be overcome. I am slowly learning to juggle the demands of wearing so many hats; a task that you moms know all too well, I'm sure.
At the beginning of our homeschool year I had our classroom upstairs in the bonus room. It's a very large space so I thought it would be the perfect place to put everything homeschool related. After several months, the clutter of posters, binders, desks, and more became overwhelming to me and I needed to simplify. FAST! So in true organizedMOM fashion, I set out to tackle the entire project in just one day. I cleared out a room downstairs near our kitchen that we had been using for a small office and storage. I persuaded my husband to paint the room with some leftover paint he had in the garage and I began the massive task of clearing out the upstairs and moving everything into this room that is significantly smaller in size. About halfway through I reached the "why did I get myself into this" mark. The room was a mess and I couldn't figure out how to fit everything into this smaller space. Somehow, I gathered the strength and inspiration to continue and I pressed on. I had a vision. A vision of a room where we could come and get away from the chaos of the house and seclude ourselves into a world of learning bliss. An oasis of information would flow freely while my children all sat quietly following the meticulous schedule I had planned out for them......
HA! My fantasizing was about as far from the truth as it could be. With a demanding 21 month old little girl there is never any quiet or escape from chaos. EVER! Nonetheless, the room has been a great place for us to go to learn and spend some time together exploration God's world and the people who have lived in it. It's not always quiet, clean, orderly or exactly as I expected it to be, but the space is serving its purpose for our family and I can't wait to share it with you!
Here is a quick tour of the room. Yes, it's a bit cluttered but I have had to maximize the available wall and floor space. It is always a work in progress, but hey, that's the beauty of life. We are all really just one big work in progress. Each day we can learn from the mistakes made before and hopefully use those to grow into a better version of ourselves. The version the Lord has seen in us all along.
