You might look crazy but at least you’ll know it’s really clean!.

It’s just a cheapo, but having that big clean surface for kids to play on makes the room feel so much more usable.When it gets stray pieces sticking out from Chuck and his long nails, we just give it a little hair cut.. After those basics were taken care of, I’ve just slowly been adding things here and there, following some little rules I made for this room in my head and now this room makes me jump for joy.

Sometimes literally.It’s a little weird, but my family is mostly used to me now..Here are some of my little rules:.

I love pops of color and I always get so excited to decorate for all the different holidays.Having everything in basic grey makes the colors that I do add kind of… colory-er… you know?

So having no color in the every day stuff makes the pops of seasonal color even that much more fun and exciting for me and I don’t end up feeling overwhelmed and bored of being stuck with the same thing..

Sometimes the pops of color are family members!Just be smart about your money and try not to stress out about all the little things as much as I do.

🙂 These first few years here for us while we’re still really getting settled and getting set up are definitely the hard years.We won’t ever want to go back to them once they’re over, but I know we’ll be so glad we lived it.

And if these are the “hard years”:.Then we really can’t complain.. Other posts you’ll love:.