Friends, I have had it. HAD IT.....in big bold letters, with exclamation points trailing steadily behind. HAD IT!!!
When your kids are itty bitty, I am sure many of you were like me. I refused to have toys overrun my house. I refused to have them scattered and sprinkled about throughout the living area, let alone the dining room, kitchen, bedrooms (including MINE!), bathrooms, hallways....if there is an open spot somewhere, I can bet that there is quite possibly a toy, book, game, stuffed animal, puzzle, crayon or what-have-you filling it. You try so hard not to let your life become filled to the brink with stuff but here we are- 3 short years into the life of my beautiful son and we are toy-crazy! (*Please remember that when I say "toy" I am including all the educational and developmental stuff we have as well.) It's so much! I could never be angry, per se, at the amount of things he has. They were all given with so much love, generosity and kindness from family and friends that we feel incredibly blessed to have so many people care so much for our children- but Daddy and I are being squished out! We are having a "toy intervention!"
This Friday "The Great Toy Clean-Out" begins! The toy contraption (it's a 9-box system with cloth boxes) in our living room is going to Connor's room as are most of the toys that have found their way down there. Connor and Alaina are each going to have a new utility tote (courtesy of 31) downstairs and whatever fits in it is allowed to stay in it...otherwise, upstairs it goes! After Connor's birthday extravaganza, we have also realized that toys are pouring out of our ears! We have toys shoved into Alaina's closet, Connor's closet, and a lot of other crazy places! Some we need to hang on to for Alaina to grow into, but a ton of them have been completely forgotten about. Ben and I decided that 5 toys per year is fair, so a total of 15 toys are getting the axe this Friday. Whether they go to the garage sale or Goodwill, they are out of our house.
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