I was in a grumpy mood (OMG, the kids, the house, the stuff, WTF?) until I saw this on Greg's site. I hope he finds a nice nanny for the children.
Okay so I'm still grumpy. The kids have the day off from school (seriously are the kids ever in school?) and the house is a wreck. There are breakfast dishes from yesterday still in the sink, that's how bad it is, people. And the twins destroyed the house looking for their soccer shin guards last night. It was one of those supper annoying things, "how many freaking times have I told you to put them away so you'll know where they are next time?" I found them: one pair under the guest room bed and the other pair in the toy room stuffed animal bin. We were 10 minutes late for soccer practice.
I know all parents deal with this, stuff where it doesn't belong. It drives me fricking crazy. The backpacks are never in the backpack spot unless I put them there or I yell "Zach, Emily, Ally, where do your backpacks go?!?!" I'm not going to make the spot where they leave their backpacks the backpack spot just because I don't want them there (and it's slightly eye-twitching amusing that all 3 dump their backpacks in the same wrong spot every time).
The dishes are like the laundry. I say time and time again that we should all put our dirty dishes in the dishwasher as well as put our dirty laundry in the laundry basket. It's not sinking in. I don't know why I expect so much of them, Greg doesn't even seem to know where the dishwasher or laundry basket are either.
On my desk right now the items that don't belong: a baseball hat, a Christmas ornament, a box of band-aids, Kyle's Yoda figure, Zach's tamagotchi, the twin's star student papers, a screwdriver, and an empty Capri Sun box. And that's only my desk, multiply that by a 2000 square foot house.
I don't think the Halloween costumes are going to be finished today either. Cause if I have to stay in this house one more minute without cleaning (and yelling a bunch at the kids for making such a humongous mess), I'm going to pay someone 2 million dollars to kidnap me.
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