Last weekend the girls and I did some cleaning of their toys. We mothers are all too familiar with the endless piles of toys that no one wants to clean because it has now become more than anyone can handle. The girls won't play with the toys any more because they can't see what they have or find what they want. THE TIME HAD COME TO CLEAN.
We spent a few hours in the basements cleaning, thinning out and organizing their toys. I had trash backs to sort the trash & donation toys. Every time I put something in one of those two bags the girls freaked out. Tears were shed, words said that can't be taken back and tantrums thrown. But in the end the room was cleaned and organized.
At the end of the painful but now beautiful process Laila turned to me and said "Mommy, when I'm a mommy I'm never going to make my kids clean out their toys, it's just mean and makes us sad.
Someone please call DCFS and report the terrible injustices that take place at our house. It's borderline abusive.
But in the mean time know that the girls are incredibly proud of their clean toy room, love spending time down there now that they can find what they want, and show everyone that is willing their new clean toy room.
Mission accomplished.
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