that's just the way it is...

Today I'm linking up with the Decor Chick for her

yup...you read that right.

Real homes.

Real messes.

Real life.

So often, the pics of my neatly organized rooms are a big fat lie.

I've usually just thrown something in the closets or taken stuff off of the tables and (gasp) thrown it on the floor so that my pics of the room looked all clean & organized.

Not the case, my friends.

I loved Decor Chick's concept from the moment I read about it.

This is our house- as it usually is.

Messy/lived in/toys on the floor/piles of clean & dirty laundry

everywhere.

Enjoy.

dishes piled in the sink and on the 50 year-old counter tops...

There's a table somewhere in there...

this is what you do when you don't have a laundry room.

Improvise...

Remember when I cleaned and completely organized this room HERE?

yup.

this is what it usually looks like, and yes- we keep a stroller in the house. It works for us.

the girls room.

MM's crib is a holding cell for clean laundry waiting to be put away.

good gravy.

that's our master bedroom.

can't believe I'm showing these to the internet.

Oliver's room isn't all that bad.

way to go, bud!

wowza what a mess.

bath time baby, E's pjs, towels...

not to mention the horribly dated bathroom.

Tell me- does the big mess detract from the pepto-pink & green?

hmmm???

the hubs man cave

and speakin of the hubs...

guess what he started Friday night?

that's right.

ripping out the kitchen.

It's one of our goals this year to update the kitchen in our home which has only undergone minimal changes since 1960. It's like it's only had its lips plumped but it really needs an entire face lift, ya know?

The face lift is coming.

I'm giddy about it.

So there's our house, as it was Friday evening.

didn't pick up (or throw) a single thing.

it's all there for you to see.

even that diaper on the bathroom counter-

anyone catch that?