When I was a younger mom, I had loads of time to clean up my children's toys. I wanted to have a beautifully decorated, clean and organized home. So each night when I put my little ones to bed, I would sit and organize all their toy bins by toys. Girls toys, boys toys, all in their own colored bins. Each morning my little ones would get up to a perfectly clean toy room with everything in its perfectly placed spot. I wanted my home to be in order, but I was becoming slave to my housekeeping routines.

After my third child was born, the chaos started to set into my beautifully decorated, clean and organized home. I just could not see where the days were going. They got away from me. As days got away from me, so did the perfectly organized toy bins. There were even days that I simply could not even pick up toys.