I got home yesterday at 4:30. That's after a full day of lecturing at work, a department meeting, rushing to try to pre-register the girls for K4 (running in 3 minutes before they close at 4, and realizing I didn't have their birth certificates), and picking up Corbin. I spent some time playing with the kids, and then started making dinner. But let's not kid ourselves here, because I totally zapped some Mac N Cheese, cut up some fruit, and called it a day. The kids were busy building a fort in Corbin's room out of his curtains, and I simply wanted to sit down for the first time all day, and catch up on Facebook & Buzzfeed.
Which is why my house usually looks like a war zone, and not some Pinterest-y, tidy house. I know I'm guilty of taking pictures of the kids, or my house, and having everything spotless. Or at the very least, shoving the junk out of the way before I snap a picture. But on a typical weekday, my house is not clean. There are dishes waiting to be washed and trash needing to be taken out. Clothes are piled up into mountains to be washed, or worse, folded and put away. I'm fairly certain if we had a Roomba, it might die the first time it tried to clean under our dining room table.
So last night, instead of cleaning this giant mess, I sat down, played with the kids, and ignored it all. That's what weekends are for, right?
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| Dishes piled up on the counter. Trash waiting to go out. |
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| I want a mud room in our next house so bad. The girls are awful at putting their shoes away...because I am, too. |
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| Unmade beds. Mismatched sheets. Jammies strewn all over the place. And don't you love the Corbin-proof gate? |
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| My bed is where we fold clothes. Except when we don't fold them, and it's late at night, they get shoved onto the floor. Where I usually end up re-washing them, or at least putting them through the refresh cycle. Three more times. |
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| Even more clothes! The ones on the left are going to be stored in case I decide to gain a random 20 pounds, lol. That exercise ball? Yeah, I've used it twice. |
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| What's the point of putting it away, if I'm going to use it in less than 24 hours anyway? |
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Ok, the living room I do keep fairly clean. Mainly because I don't allow toys to be brought in. And the kids, even Corbin, are required to put all books and toys back in the baskets in front of the fire place.
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| And also, child labor is great |
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Is your house a mess? Write a post & link it up. At the very least, leave a comment and let me know so I don't feel as bad, ha.
Hey, that looks like my house! I suck at decorating and hate cleaning ;) You defiantly won't find my house on pinterest either! But that's okay, we're too busy enjoying life.
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Yeah, the clothes thing - definitely in the same boat. They get washed and dried and either make it to the couch or our room.....and then into a basket on the floor which we pull from until it's almost empty and throw more clean clothes on top of, sigh. And dishes are often piled in the sink (and on the counter) because just as soon as I get the kitchen spotless I cook and feed kids and decide to eat somewhere in there too and by the time I get done I just want to sit for a few minutes and not think about dishes. So yeah, no pinterest worthy house here either.
ReplyDeleteOur house at any given moment is a complete pit! I wouldn't call it dirty, but we put a new definition to clutter. Our bed is also the laundry folding zone. I usually get the monstrous pile sorted by family member then en up moving on to some other more pressing matter then stuff the sorted piles into baskets, or piles in the floor. The next morning Addam or Ava decide they need something out of a pile and instead of looking to see which pile belongs to them they just start digging which remixes and I start all over again. I tend to get things actually put away about once every 2 weeks when Ava runs out of underwear in her dresser. I then realize she has 15 pairs of undies and far the act that it's been 15 days since laundry was where it belonged. That is just one aspect. You would be horrified to see our dining room rug, a splat mat under the highchair would be a good investment.
ReplyDeleteThank you for making me feel so normal!!!
ReplyDeleteah thank you for this post! Saturday mornings are when we get our house in order for the week..and it lasts till about monday morning.
ReplyDeleteYep, that sums it up. I work full time, make sure that we all have three meals a day and make sure we have brushed our teeth among other things, so the rest will have to wait. Kbl
ReplyDeleteI LOVE that you posted this! We are all normal and those pinterest perfect houses must never get lived in. My bed is also where the clothes are folded or pushed onto the floor when we go to bed. LOL
ReplyDeleteSomeday, when my child is no longer a toddler, I will worry more about keeping a tidier house. For now, I feel like the little bit of time that I get to spend with her should be spent having fun, not getting after her for dumping her toys everywhere.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fucking disaster.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great post and one I can completely relate too. I do the same exact thing with the laundry. YAY!! I am not the only one!!
ReplyDeletethis post made me feel sooooo much better, my laundry pile at the foot of my bed has 2 loads, 1 that for sure has to be rewashed, again!
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Where did you get the Corbin-proof gate? I need one of those!
ReplyDeleteAnon (I can't hit reply on this computer) - Eddie made it with wood from Lowes. Maybe cost $10? It's a thin sheet of wood that slips into a track.
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