There are 12 signs that we MAY be living in a house with 6 children:
1. Our Back-To-School shopping load requires a small trailer to transport it home.
2. One day’s worth of clean laundry is enough to cover Bill’s side of the bed.
3. And when folded, said laundry takes 4-5 trips back and forth to closets to put it away.
4. Even though we can usually make it so that our home gives off the impression of being neat and organized…
…open any cabinet door and find out the truth: The children’s junk is taking over.
5. This is what my calendar looks like. Every Month.
6. This is what my kitchen floor looks like. Every day.
(Note the “remove your shoes” sign hanging above the empty drawer where the shoes belong!)
7. Everyone has a job. (But no-one ever does them…)
8. We have the biggest dining room table available in South Dakota.
9. And a garage so full of bicycles that there’s no room for cars.
10. We’re running out of wall space.
11. The playroom looks like this:
NO PHOTO AVAILABLE…..NO PHOTO AVAILABLE…..NO PHOTO AVAILABLE…..NO PHOTO AVAILABLE…..
(The playroom was too hazardous to walk into to take the picture, so you’ll have to use your imagination…)
The twelfth and final sign that I am living in a house with 6 kids is this:
Yes, that glass holds the entire bottle.
Facebook - I've started giving my kids 5 minute time outs every time I find something they just left out so that they see that my time is valuable...so far they've had TO's for plates on the table, bandaid wrappers, shoes on the kitchen floor and a bicycle on the tennis court. Bets on how long before they just start picking their $±{# up?
The calendar and the shoes put fear in my heart. And I have a fairly high tolerance for chaos.
Our playroom is also NEVER ready for its close up. And I only have 2 kids.
Posted by: Christine @ Quasi Agitato | 10/03/2011 at 07:22 AM