So, I know that my husband is going to make fun of this picture and this confession, but I love this shelf in my kitchen cabinet.
One day a couple of months ago, I put the plates away in rainbow color order. I loved it! So I kept doing it. And I started doing the same thing with the cups and bowls. It looks so neat and pretty. It doesn't look bad when they are not in order, but something about the rainbow order just makes me smile. Yesterday, I had a realization. It's not just about the dishes looking pretty in a certain order, this cabinet represents something. It represents what I wish the rest of my house looked like. You see, right now, the kitchen counters look like this:
This...
And this.
And oh, is that a dining room table under there? With a Valentine's Day table cloth?
That's pretty much what our whole house always looks like. The kitchen table is cleaned off right now, but usually we're pushing aside magazines, papers, and kids' artwork to put down our plates. I won't even mention the bathrooms!
I just can't seem to get a handle on organizing my stuff and my time. As much as I love having clean counter tops, I just can't seem to keep them that way.
I've tried following FlyLady and she has some really great ideas, but her sticky note system is a bit much for me. I've downloaded multiple daily cleaning schedules that I vowed I was going to follow everyday (and I usually do for about two days). But they never seem to work for me. I always feel like I spend my entire day ignoring my kids to get everything done. And then, a week later it is a wreck again! But that cabinet is clean. It is neat. It is organized. It is pretty!
