Conversations with two different friends this week led me to believe that my recent posts have given the impression that I have everything running smoothly at our house and that our days are filled with nothing but cozy reading sessions, happy homeschooling endeavors, and yummy meals and treats. Like one of my favorite bloggers, Melissa Wiley, I like to blog mostly about those times I want to remember and savor when chaos is threatening to destroy my sanity. But in the interest of dispelling any myths about the togetherness of our lives, I’d like to confess a few things:
Velveeta shells and cheese, hot dogs, and cereal are regularly served to the girls for dinner.
We sometimes eat cake for breakfast and very often eat graham crackers with peanut butter and chocolate chips.
Yesterday, I paid M to let C keep a pillow of hers so I wouldn’t have to hear C scream.
Last week, the girls watched the second half of The Incredibles (M doesn’t like the beginning) 8 times in the course of 2 days.
Often by the the time I get around to sweeping the kitchen floor, the pile is too big for our dust buster to handle. I envy friends with dogs who “sweep” for them.
I haven’t seen the surface of my dresser in months.
We haven’t raked a single leaf this fall.
We got a new toilet in August and the old one is still sitting by the basement door waiting to be taken to the dump.
I’ve put off teaching M to tell time so I can put her to bed early and not have her realize it.
One of my closest friend’s first child turned 1 in October and I’ve yet to mail her present though I actually bought it on time.
When it comes to keeping the house clean, making good food, and homeschooling, I can do one of them well, or two of them not as well as I’d like but I have yet to figure out how to do all three.
Oh Sarah – this is just lovely. You know what i mean I’m sure – of course piles of crud to clean up and putting the video on yet again doesn’t make us feel great as people, as mums, but in fact reading all this makes me think, actually, your house sounds like a wonderful, real home.
HAHA!! Thank you! I love this! And I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s put off teaching my child to tell the time so that she won’t know if she’s going to bed early or not :-))
Thanks Zoe and Maria! Real life, especially with kids whose imaginations are allowed to run free, is very very messy 🙂
That is a true reality check! Now if only every blogger would do the same thing we’d see how normal we are!
Not raking is wonderful for the grass!! Trust me! They used to say it was natures way of warming the ground. Tell the neighbours they’ll be jealous of your green grass and early flowers! 🙂
I’m with you! I can do one thing really well, or two things sort of well, but I can’t get it all done. Mostly we focus on the art and sometimes yummy food. All the while the pile under our table builds up and the dust bunnies take over!
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we enjoyed this post!
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Ha,ha, aren’t dogs great? They can come around behind you and clean up the crumbs. Nice to hear that someone else has “real” days–you know, chaos and crumbs!