Today was the day to start cleaning Quintin's room. I knew it was messy, but I had no idea the extent of it!!! He often has to clean his room and lately it just wasn't looking clean so I decided I needed to get in there with him and organize a little so that it would be more neat. Well holy cow, every drawer, every backback, the suitcase stored under his bed, closet and desk were packed full of CRAP!! I mean, ripped up paper and kleenex shoved in drawers, random little toys shoved into the bottom of bags. Basically, every time he was cleaning his room he would just shove everything out of my eyesight. I was furious. 2 1/2 hours later of cleaning we still haven't even vaccuumed or bagged the sorted toys. 2 Huge black trash bags full of trash are by the door. I quit asking what he wanted to keep and just started throwing everything away it was so bad. I told him that if he was just shoving things wherever and not taking care of them they must not be that important. There were dirty clothes shoved in with his clean clothes in his dresser so now I have to wash everything because they stunk. I have a laundry pile up to the ceiling from all the crap we found under his bed.
So...this was sort of a setback as I had hoped to spend a lot of one on one time with the boys today. We're taking a break right now. I'm feeding Thea and Q is reading to the boys. I think we'll head outside for some fresh air before lunch. Hopefully we can get his room in order today. I am going to be much more diligent in checking his room after he "cleans" it.
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