The Mess

I have accepted the fact that having a toddler at home means the place can never be neat and tidy. When we didn't have a kid around, I always made sure that the home is free of clutter and everything would always be in their proper place.

However, for the last year or so, the home is constantly in a mess. Toys are always strewn everywhere. Each time that I made an effort to have them put back in the boxes, out come the toys again a few minutes later. Sometimes, even my stuff can end up as toys such as handbags and such.

So, I have now decided that I would just let the mess be. If toys are all over the floor from morning till night, so be it. It is just kind of silly to keep picking them up only to have them all over the place again a while later. The only time that I will pick everything up and get my son to cooperate to do the same is at night, just before our bedtime.

Through this way, he learns that is part of his routine and how to put back his own stuff when the day is over. Hopefully, when this phase of having toys everywhere is over, my home can go back to being neat and tidy again once more.