After having 3 kids, organizing guru Marie Kondo has admitted she’s not as tidy as she once was. Parents the world over are rejoicing

By Bethany Mandel

If you were on social media over the weekend, you likely saw this headline gleefully shared by parents: “Marie Kondo admits she’s ‘kind of given up’ on tidying up after having 3 kids.”

I am one of those parents.

I am a famously cluttered person whose home was once described as “the domestic expression of chaos theory, the idea that astounding disorder can exist within an ordered structure of patterns and laws.”

That same article went on to say, “Married for 10 years, the Mandels are comfortable with mess. People who’ve delivered a baby in a car know that life can emerge and thrive in circumstances that aren’t sterile. The couple have more important things to worry about than whether the baby’s nasal aspirator is on the front steps, and whether there’s room to fit a drinking glass on the coffee table.”

I didn’t even know the aspirator was on the front steps until that article was published. Since then, we’ve had yet another baby, and I’m sorry to say that our house is in the same sorry state of disarray and disorganization.

When my midwife came for the home birth last month, she asked for the birth certificate forms we had filled out several weeks earlier. I looked around the cluttered dressers in our bedroom until I found the stack of paperwork. I handed it to her, she leafed through the papers, and then laughed and said, “This is from the last baby (born in the summer of 2021). I guess you haven’t cleaned up in a year and a half, huh?”

No, we haven’t.

Thankfully, she had an extra copy and my husband filled out the forms again. Problem was, he wrote a different first name than what we had decided on. Our printer was out of ink, and the new cartridge was … somewhere.

Maybe it was with the paperwork that I had already filled out.

https://www.deseret.com/2023/1/30/23577921/marie-kondo-life-changing-magic-tidying-up-children