A Messy House… ?… !
I was gone on Monday, from 8:00am til 8:00pm…
12 hours: not a long time in the span-of-a-life, but apparently TOO MUCH time for my 2 guys: ages 39 and 4, to be at home together with no supervision.
Disclaimer: I have an amazing husband. He’s a great guy, great dad, etc.
But how can 2 people displace so many things? And not big things, but little things that are so easy to put back into place, but were not. I have been picking things up for 2 days now and I still have some clutter left in the dining room…
And people need no reminders of how much I DISLIKE CLUTTER.
Wait, I’m just noticing a play train (I just crossed out play because that’s a bit redundant; you all are very intelligent and can guess that a full-size train cannot fit in my living room- nor would it look good, most importantly, it would ruin my carpet, but I digress…), there’s a train lying on the floor of the living room.
This is what I’m talking about: this is not a big train, and it’s lying NEXT TO the basket it is supposed to live in, but it’s lying there on the floor. PLUS, I just noticed this and I’ve been putting things away for 2 days.
But this isn’t a big train… or a big deal. I can hear Dan Zanes playing in the next room and know there will be a day when my son doesn’t want to play Memory, or do art projects, or do sing-a-longs with mom,
so I’ll take the 1,000 cars and the 1,000 trains and the 1,000 planes and the 10,000 legos:
for the hugs, Santa, and band-aids healing every hurt.
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2 Comments on A Messy House… ?… !
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Kate on
Fri, 17th Oct 2008 11:31 am
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Lindsay Lebresco (Graco) on
Mon, 20th Oct 2008 10:02 am
This is exactly what I think as I look around my explosion of a house and want to run out the door screaming. It’s a trade off. There will be time for a clean floor later…
Uh! I totally understand! My husband stays home with my children and while he is actually pretty good at keeping the house straight, he doesn’t CLEAN. So my house is FULL of sticky hand/finger prints everywhere! I spent 4 hours yesterday cleaning with a vengence and only got 3/4 of the upstairs clean.
Of course when I got downstairs, the kids had torn up everything in sight. Go figure…
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