I have to say, I’m the least organised person I know. I don’t know why because I can be so frustratingly OCD at times. Now, I don’t know why I pitched OCD and being organised together, it just seems like they would go well together. Like chocolate and coffee, avocado and feta. Coffee, lunch dates, meet-ups that do not get diarised in three places, are forgotten about almost immediately. Then I famously double-book myself – unfortunately, too many friends can attest to that. It is now April 2018 and time to get organised! Even if it’s in baby steps for me…
April 2018: time to get organised
My 11-year-old said to me a few weeks ago, “Mummy maybe you need to have a deadline to finish doing up our study”. And I love this! She gave me until the end of April to do this because she knows me too well!
Okay, here’s the backstory. We’re fortunate enough to have a “nothing” room. It currently houses one of those Ikea Kallax shelving systems, which the girls fill with their books, travel guide books from the days before Google took off, and puzzles and games.
Plus a sentimental relic or two from years past. Oh and a long table, which I’d placed my sewing machine on. Anyway, I had plans to turn the room into a study for the girls and use the freed up space in their bedrooms for them to have a dressing table. They could, thus, experiment with makeup rather than sneak it on for school (like I did).
The “study” idea
Right! So two things on this “study” idea:
- I’m terribly disorganised, so despite going great guns at the beginning on this… we’re talking consulting an up and coming interior designer (based in deepest darkest suburbia, ok she’s a friend, but also, an up and coming interior designer) and googling for cheap furniture (more Ikea), drawing up a reasonable budget for The Man (given a fortune has already been allocated to the garden to be landscaped in time for summer), I’ve not done anything bar moving the shelves from one side of the room to the other (and giving two boxes of books to charity). Well done me! Except this was at the beginning of February.
- I’m wary about locating one teen and one near teen together in a “study” with laptops and iPhones. I’m not so sure I’m being very practical or intelligent about this idea. My girls love the study idea though! They’ve assured me they would work fabulously well together – which of course, has set my mummy alarms blaring! Any instances those two have worked “fabulously well” together on anything, has had consequences running for two months. Frankly, I’m sick of giving out consequences – I can’t keep track of them all! So, what I’m saying is, I’m not positive any studying will get done in the “study”.
The organisational plan
Regardless, since I’ve put so much… um… effort on this, I shall plow on. If disaster strikes, it will not be too difficult to rearrange the room back into a nothing room once more.
So, lovely Vanilla Beige readers, my goal for April is to get organised. On this… Organise this ONE room. I shall start with a small single organisation goal. I’m afraid my rather disorganised self does not allow for any more than one.
What will your organisation goal(s) be for April? Spring cleaning, reorganising a room, a cupboard or that kitchen drawer that houses everything? Or my favourite, organising and planning for that summer holiday! After all, I assume those tickets are booked – oh no, look out, distraction ahead!
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