Motivation...

A friend told me as a nation we weren't facing a shortage of toilet paper or bleach during the COVID 19 shut down.  The real shortage in America is motivation.  I had to agree.  For years, I've been saying I can't get to XYZ because I am too busy doing kid stuff.  Now...I have nothing but time and I am still not getting XYZ done!  Truthfully, there are lots of reasons I am not doing XYZ but I can't blame busyness anymore.  

Well, I finally found the motivation to get one big project done.  Lorien texted last week saying she wanted to come home for a little bit.  She was supposed to go to Utah for a friend's wedding for her spring break.  The wedding got canceled due to COVID 19 so she didn't have a spring break.  We figured she was more than due for a trip home.  Over Thanksgiving and Christmas, she stayed in Clare's room.  Lorien and Clare are not great roommates.  So we decided this time, Wyatt and Lorien would share a room.  I told Wyatt he'd be sharing a room but I'd help him clean up his room, organize it, and paint it before Lorien came!  He was not really interested but went along to humor me.  Really he said no at first then said OK to which I said: "Good because I was going to make you do it anyway." 

We got to work hauling every single thing out of Wyatt's room.  He has been in this room since we moved into the house in November of 2016...that's almost four years!  He had toys and school projects he hadn't touched since he moved into the house. 

With all of his treasures moved into the hall we cleaned the room, plastered any holes in the wall, tested paint colors, picked a color, and painted the room.  That was all one day!

Here is a picture of *some* of his stuff from his room now in the hall.

We painted until 10:30 at night.  Wyatt picked a cool smokey blue-gray color for his walls.  We had it lightened for three walls and did one wall the full dark color.  It turned out really well!  He has great taste in wall color (and an excellent teacher).

The next day we sorted all of his stuff, deciding what to keep, what to toss, what to donate, and what to put in storage.  We rearranged his furniture and finally put up a shelf he got for his 10th birthday to display his treasures.  Way to go, mom.  Hanging the shelf took almost as long as painting the whole room!  It was crazy, the angle needed to get the screws in was ridiculous.  We had to call it close enough until we could get a special screwdriver to finish it.

It wasn't without little adventures and hiccups but we did finish and Wyatt's room LOOKS AMAZING!  I am so glad we did the project.  Wyatt deserves a clean, cool-looking room...especially if he has to share with Lorien for a little while.

Let's just see a before and after right next to each other.  

Now, I have to take care of the last bit of crap in the hall.  Its just stuff he doesn't want and we can't donate (thanks COVID 19) yet or stuff that needs to be stored in the garage.  It is always the last little bit of stuff that takes the most motivation and time.