Organizing This House - The Kids' Closets

Along with our stay-cation last week
I have been really busy attempting to 
Organize This House!


There is really no easy access to the attic in this house.

So we are not using it.

Our attic at home was very utilized!

Luckily there are nice sized closets in this house.

So first order of business is to make better use of

the space in the kids closets.
Well ALL the closets!

Then we can put more long term storage in them.

There is a LOT of closet space in this house.

The closets run the span of the rooms with one set of

sliding door and then little "caves" on each side.

None of them are currently being used to their

full potential.

Tackling the Boys' Closet:

The first thing we did was completely empty the boys closet.

There were no less than 5 bookbags

and 2 unused lunchboxes in there!

Then we have the parts bunk their beds,

theirs bunk in an L shape, not the standard way.

Then I attempted to start some sort of 

organization a few years ago

for all of their halloween costumes.

I had a plastic bin

but they all just got thrown in there.

We sorted through them and put them each in their

own ziploc bag and labeled them.

It is not unheard of to have 

Batman or Spiderman

or a Ninja randomly running through
our house house on any given day.
So now all the pieces are together,
so we have a fully garbed 
Batman
SpiderMan
or
Ninja 
running around!  

Let's see how long they last like this.

The other cave side of their closet

now houses ALL of the Christmas decorations.

They all fit nicely over there

and there is still a TON of unused space in their closet.

BUT - 

I do not want to overload it and for it not to function.

So for now - 

we will keep trying to 

put the "finishing" touches on it

and 

Keep It Neat!

(HA!)

Ms. Priss' Closet

After tackling the boys closet,
I ventured into Ms. Priss' room.
Again - HUGE closet,
not being used to its potential.
The first thing I had to do was to start pulling stuff out.

When each of the boys got kicked out of the crib,
they went straight into a "big boy" bed -
full size twin bed.
The bottom of the set of bunk beds we had.

When Ms. Priss got kicked out at the age of 18 months,
we decided to splurge (with a little help from Grammy)
 on an
ADORABLE
toddler bed for her.

She loved it -
so did I!

When we left NC, we really couldn't decide
whether or not to take it with us.
I didn't want to get rid of it,
I wanted to give it to my married
yet childless sister
and attempt to keep it as a
family bed.
Cause it is just THAT cute!

See!!

Last minute, it made the trip with us out here to Texas.

Since Ms. Priss' room was now the guest room too,

she got a big girl bed.

We actually found a great bed on CraigsList 

that was a full with a twin trundle.

PERFECT!

The tiny bed wound up in Ms. Priss' closet while

we figured out what to do with it.

I found the above picture from our house in NC,

and put the bed on CraigsList to sell.

It was a HARD decision,

but I really couldn't justify keeping it.

So on CL it went.

I pulled it out and decided I would try

and put it together to make sure all the pieces

had made the trip.

Well this just created a problem...

Ms. Priss was BESIDE herself about that bed!

After, two trips to the hardware store

and 

two days straight of hearing

"Mommy, will you PLEASE fix 

my tiny bed"

It finally got put together,
I made the trips to the hardware store,
I put 80% of it together,
but DADDY happened to put the final
pieces together and
put the canopy on,
in the presence of his daughter
so HE got all the credit!!
How does that work???
(haha!)

Needless to say,
she hasn't slept in her "big bed" since.

And the bed has been officially taken off
of CraigsList!

I think she likes it,
she even remembers her old room
and
I think her little brother likes it too...
Too bad I can't pass it down to him!