And all too often its arteries get clogged with kid stuff and parent stuff, not to mention big bodies, little bodies and animal bodies everywhere.
It's the room where:
-- We cook
-- The family eats
-- The pets eat
-- Older kids do homework
-- Younger kids do artwork
-- And it's where the whole family dumps whatever they're carrying onto the kitchen table - or the first counter they encounter.
This is the room where everyone congregates, and, consequently, it's usually one of the messiest rooms in the house.
Yet, it's also the place where we gather at the end of each day (as often as we can, anyway) to break bread, wind down, and refuel.
So we need it to be the one place in our home that's (mostly) organized. That's because it's these very activities that require an elevated level of cleanliness - and organization.
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