There is order to the chaos

Do you ever have those moments when you feel like you've accomplished SO much, yet have so little to show for it?  I'm having one of those moments.  Now, nothing of great significance or anything, I didn't save anyone's life or create any masterpieces... but, let me show you what insignificant yet major things I did do this weekend:

 1.  I tried potty training my child.

Naked Baby!

I say "tried" because I do not count this as a successful weekend...but it also wasn't a complete failure.  I read this thing on Pinterest about letting your kid run around naked, give them juice, and stick them on the toilet every 15 minutes.  My child really likes water, so she never gets juice...so upon getting juice she pounded it in about 5 minutes, and proceeded to pee it out in 2 minute increments of which about

half we made it to the potty.  Half is pretty good!

Rolled up the rug, covered the couches, brought in books and toys, and had plenty of Lysol and paper towels! 

What DID make the potty training successful is that she did in fact poop in the toilet.  I never realized my life would reach this point... in which the highlight and joy of my child pooping in a toilet is so overwhelming that we call my sister to celebrate.  I might have even have done a little jumping in joy...

 

 2.  My cousin Amanda came over and helped me with all the organization that needed to be done for my back room.

No chinchilla cage, no papers, no crap.  Also, that dresser is completely EMPTY!

Now, some of you may remember the mess that used to be this back room, it actually wasn't too terrible to clean out...but the papers... oh my the papers and the crap in that dresser were just overwhelming!  By the time Amanda was done, we had a trash bag full of almost all paper, we had a a bag full of donations, and all sorts of cool, and clever organizing done.

2 Binders full of everything important, ridiculously sorted by tabs and labels...they're quite impressive, but this is all you get to see.

Empty: enough said.  This will be moving to the basement for storage or sold.

Amanda had this genius idea to use this handy built in office space in Vi's playroom as....office space.  Huh...weird I know.   Vi's stuff is still on the desk, her books and craft supplies (now conveniently in boxes Amanda provided) and the slots are our bill/envelope/offic-y things.

This Friday we are finding out what we are having, which is very exciting on its own, but even more exciting now that we have that room ready to start setting up once we know what we're having! I realize these things are such little accomplishments in the grand spectrum of life...but in my little, boring life right now...they're huge.  Also...I did 3 loads of laundry AND put them away (I mean...come on!) I did dishes, and cleaned my room.  I feel so accomplished this weekend, and realize it's rather humorous that these things are what made me feel that way.  Thanks for letting me share and 'have something to show' in the end.