Do you walk past the same pile of stuff every day and not even notice it? Has it been there so long that it has just become part of the landscape? Do you not even know what it on the bottom of the pile? You are not alone. Everyone does it.
Today, I decided to re-organize my older son's room. (Side note: It seems that the older they get, the smaller the pieces of their toys get, but the quantity increases.) On the top shelf of his bookcase, he likes to showcase his Lego masterpieces. I like this idea, and encourage him to be proud of the ones he makes on his own (and not the pre-designed kits). However, besides the Lego inventions, there have always been some pictures of my son. Some of him when he was a newborn, some with his different grandparents, and others of him just growing up. They were all in different types of frames. They have always been there. It was visually cluttered. It bothered me, yet it has been like that for years.
Well, today was the day to change that. I went and bought several inexpensive frames (I mean cheap! $1.50-$2.00 at Target!) They are all the same. They came in different sizes to fit the different pictures, but visually they are all the same. I grouped them in an appealing layout and hung them all on the wall. Now, it looks like a single collage of pictures. One piece of art, instead of random, mis-matched pictures that just seemed to take up too much space, not only on the shelf, but in my mind when looking at his room.
It took so little time to make a significant difference in the appearance of his room. Why did I wait so long to do it? I don't know. Probably because in the grand scheme of things, it is a low priority as far as all the things I have to do in a day. But, standing back and looking at it, I really feel like I accomplished something significant today. And, I am pretty sure that my son will love it, and actually LOOK at the pictures now, instead of walking right past them, as we have all done for so long.
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