"Stop saying that my kid is shy, outgoing, aggressive, anxious, quiet, boisterous, argumentative, pouty, fidgety, chatty, whiny or loud because he's homeschooled. It's not fair that all the kids who go to public school can be as annoying as they want to without being branded as representative of anything but childhood."
-Author Unknown-

14 November, 2009

Let's Play I Spy


Now, I wasn't kidding when I said my house has been a terrible mess since we had about three solid weeks of sickness around here. The living room looked like the toy box vomited all over it, dirty dishes were stacked head high in the kitchen sink and we lived out of clothes baskets.

So to make y'all feel like supreme housekeepers, I decided we should play a little game...at my expense. So here we go. I Spy in my living room.



I Spy With My Little Eye:

20 Wooden Blocks
A Urinal
An Orange Flyswatter
An Empty Caulk Gun
A Pink Stuffed Dog Toy
A White Sock
The Movie "Cats and Dogs"
A Plastic Bag
A Dolphin
A Canning Ring
A Backpack/Lunchbox
A Bread Machine
The Bread Machine's Broken Lid
The Book "Brown Bear Brown Bear"
A Power Strip
3 Shoes
An Ostrich
A Zip Line Handle

The first one to find all the above items is the winner! And what does the winner receive? Bragging rights and the comfort in knowing that there really are houses messier than theirs. What? I'm obviously not organized enough to put together a prize pack! Thanks for playing :)


9 comments:

Raisingarrows said...

Bahahaha! Love it!

AF Wife99 said...

You win! That definitely looks like the house of 2 boys and one sick mom. Hope that you are getting caught up and feeling better.

Amanda said...

I think the urinal was the first thing I noticed. I said, "is that a urinal??!" HA!!!

Anita said...

Oh my goodness! This is so funny... especially the part about you not being organized enough to put together a prize pack. (I think my house could rival yours in messiness, btw.) :)

Qtpies7 said...

It doesn't take sickness to get my house to look like that. I have to be gone for part of a day with the kids home. If moms away, the kids will play and not clean.
Not that the house is ever CLEAN, but it gets bad. lol
The kids spend more time arguing with me about how they should have to do that chore than the chore would take to clean.

Mothering4Money said...

Does he use the urinal better than the toilet or a traditional potty chair? We're about to start down that road with BabyBoy.

Angie Vik said...

Way too funny. Good job of finding humor in a less than desirable situation. My house frequently gets to this stage. Just out of curiosity, what is a bread machine doing on the living room floor?

Cheryl said...

Mothering4Money- He likes it, he thinks he's big stuff going like the big boys. It makes it easier for me because I can keep it in a convenient place like the living room and get him to the potty quicker. It doesn't help so much with poo though...we've had some end up on the floor as he works out what sensation means what :)

Angie- I have a teensy weensy kitchen with no cabinet space. So I keep my small appliances like my bread machine, stand mixer, steamer as well as my serving dishes and big items like my soup pot in the basement on storage shelves. Yes, it's a pain. When the boys were sick I was too lazy to carry the bread machine downstairs so I stuck it in the corner of the kitchen. When Bram felt better he decided to drag it (by the cord) around the house and leave it with the rest of the mess in the living room. :)

Tanya @ Mommy Goggles said...

I am seriously LOL @ the kids' urinal in that pic! Too funny!