This cold, rainy, snowy, weather is making me crazy, and therefore quite a bit less tolerant of all the lovely things that my children do. Four times in the past 2 days, I have walked into a bathroom to find the entire roll of toilet paper unrolled and piled up on the floor, with parts of it shredded and spread all over. (Kind of makes me wish I hadn't bought the big rolls.) I dream of cleaning up a room and coming back 5 minutes later to find that it is still clean. But alas, it is not to be. (Perhaps if it would stay warm enough, I could send the kids outside!) Instead I come back to see that my 1 year old has poured herself some cereal or that both Amelia and Megan have helped themselves to yogurt, and in the process, Megan has painted both herself and the counter with it. And one of my favorites is to find my girls making "phone calls". (We have quite a history of dialing 9-1-1 around here, so this is never a good situation.) This all happens in the time it takes me to go change a load of laundry or run to the bathroom, mind you.
I've heard that some kids
will sit in front of a t.v. and stay put, therefore allowing a parent to accomplish some tasks, but I'm not that lucky. And even if I leave the younger ones under the watchful care of an older sibling for a few brief moments, I may find when I check on them, that they have all colored themselves blue! (So much for hoping that with age comes the ability to make good and responsible choices.) I think even my kids are feeling a little cooped up if I am to judge from all of the screaming and fighting that is going on between my two youngest, who are usually good buddies.
All I know is that it better warm up quick if we are all going to survive!!!!
6 comments:
Should have gone to southern CA to work all the extra energy out. And feel warm sand between your toes.
Wow! Nice blog/family/cardiovascular fitness! It's great to hear from you...beautiful kids! Thanks for posting on the blog and drop me an email when you get a chance. thhammond@yahoo.com
I am so glad I am not the only one who is dreading these cold and rainy days. I feel like I follow a little 2 year old tornado around the house all day long. I like to clean my house at night sometimes so I then can sit down and enjoy looking at a clean house for a few moments. Is that sidewalk chalk all over your girls? That is so funny, especially because its not my kids.
I think my favorite part of this post is how you labeled it with a "bad attitutde" tag. That cracks me up. These days are hard. Wish we could just go get a beer. And by the way, from this end of it your kids just look darling. But I'm not the one sweeping up cereal. At your house, anyway.
Oh, those were the good ol' days. I actually have photos of this very day at my house: josh filled the toilet with every roll of toilet paper in the house and all of his bath toys, then while I was cleaning up that mess he emptied three boxes of cereal in the middle of the living room floor. He does't do those things anymore. It's very dull around here. Quiet. And occasionally even clean. Very dull indeed!
Thanks for the perspective Katie!
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