This weekend we did room changes. The room that Monkey Wrench and Oldest used to share was recently vacated by the human occupants. Oldest moved out when he married Frog, of course, and last weekend Monkey Wrench moved out so he can do what he wants, when he wants. Pretty normal 18 year old behavior ;)
L'il Red has some behaviors that the hubs and I need to monitor more closely. So we moved Lazy Lion and Jaguar over to the room recently vacated by my older boys.
We moved Tree Monkey down to the former room of Lazy Lion, Jaguar, and L'il Red. Then we moved :'il Red upstairs to the smaller room across from ours.
I am beat, bushed, exhausted, and quite ornery. I get that way when I have to clean my children's rooms. You see, my children are masters of stuffing CRAP under their beds (except for Sassy- she does not do this).
In fact, if stuffing crap under the bed were an an Olympic event I would have 3 gold medalists in my home, or I HAD 3, now I just have on.!
I found shirts, socks of all shapes and sizes, papers from massage therapy school, biology, welding, auto shop, a pocket knife, a compass (which can't help anyone find their way while buried under the bed), a dime, pants, a framed Eagle Scout award, pencils, pens, notebooks, reading material, bins that were purchased to store special keepsakes, but stuffed full of candy wrappers and others stuff that was clearly not keepsake worthy. More than half the stuff that I found should have been thrown away a long time ago.
So, what are your children gold medalists in?
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My kids love to do that too. Everything goes under the bed or in the closet. Oh,the treasures I have found when I've helped clean up their room. Since we are moving soon,I'm sure I will find all kinds of good stuff!
Procrastination. My daughter is striving to be world champion, but I keep hindering her. She is the queen of, "Instead of doing a page of math today, I promise I'll do two pages tomorrow." (Their homework is sent home in a packet every week and due at the end of the week instead of daily.) But I'm mean and tell her that no, she can do two pages today so she doesn't have to do one tomorrow if she'd like, but she is not to do it the other way around!
I'm sure when she is the world champion at procrastination she will have lots of sympathetic ears who will listen to how hard it was for her growing up with a mother who didn't support her ambitions. ;)
Oh, and if my daughter didn't have a loft bed, she would totally be stuffing stuff under it. She does stuff things anywhere else she can manage: closet, desk, corners, etc. Everytime she tells me her room is clean, I take one look and tell her, "Your definition of clean and my definition are two very different things." Then I make her clean some more and earn more "mean mother" awards. ;)
Hmmm...whining and weedling, and making excuses. We have a whole Olympic team in those events...
When they were little all of them would keep stuffing their wastebasket and could NEVER empty it--I could never figure that out. Also not putting their dishes in the dishwasher (but at least they'd get to the sink ; )
Once, when I was so frustrated that my boys didn't seem to have any socks or underwear I went to do a deep clean with them. Monkey Wrench had stuffed clothes that he didn't want to put away in his snow suit. THEY WERE ALL CLEAN CLOTHES!
Did he think I wouldn't notice that the snow suit not only stood up on it's own, but also looked like there was a person in it. He was no longer out of socks and underwear.
That is a story that we still tell and laugh about today. :D
Stacey- I'm sure you will. I let me kids pack their own rooms this last move. Big mistake. Big. Huge!
Sariah- Oh so true. I'm with ya sister. I, too, have thwarted many a dream of a child's dream to procrastinate. Guess we are neck and neck for the mean mom award...:D
Heff- Whining.........Oh I"m so sorry. I swear whining makes my nerves stand on end and i can instantly go from nice to ogre in 1.3 seconds. ;)
Yvonne- I would like to congratulate you on getting you kids to use the waste basket. the ones in the bedrooms occupied by children here are always empty. Not because they've taken it out, but because they just shoved it under the bed. :D
Aren't kids fun?
They give us such and education. ;)
I know where everyone is sleeping. :)
There's STILL some of Lauren's crap under her former bed! ;)
We're working on the under the bed mess too. I'm trying to convince them if they haven't used it in over a year, they surely won't miss it.
And I scored more than a dime...two quarters. :) Finders Keepers...
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