I feel as if I'm introducing myself to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting...Hi, I'm 30 years old, married, the mother of two small children (3 & 1),and I think my children are trying to kill me by emotional suffocation.
I spent my day today moving our food out of our pantry. It doesn't matter to where. The point is why. Toys have taken over my house, not just in quantity, but in location. Every room has what might as well be land mines scattered throughout the carpet and rugs...Almost all of which make loud long-winded music when kicked at 3:00 a.m.
My solution of course is consolidation, and sadly, consolidating those toys is more critical to my existence than having a usable pantry.
7 comments:
Miss_Jenny:
It's not like you were packed in with food for the winter, is it? It's not like you're your sister who got Grammamy's survival instincts ... You were only using that pantry to store paper sacks and canned ham anyway.
Welcome to the blogosphere.
p.s. -- go into your blogger control panel and turn on word verification for comments. It's annoying, but it keeps spammers from posting in your comments.
Welcome, indeed!
And Frank's quite right, sad to say. You'll be surprised how rapidly the spammers find you if you don't have that pesky comment verification thingummy.
Someday all those toys will be gone, and you will miss them terribly. But then you will remember that you don't miss the diapers, and everything will be fine.
If you had word verification turned on, it would have kept centuri0n out.
And me too.
MJ: I'm 5 years your senior, and have three extra kids to show for it. My oldest will be 8 in January, if that gives you the picture.
Things aren't always easy, particularly when you actually care what kind of parent you are. You may not be in a position where daily food is needed from God, but I can state emphatically from experience that "daily needs" consist of more than food, and He is gracious to supply them.
P.S. Don't believe BugBlaster or Centuri0n--word verification won't keep them away. Bad poetry works for Cent, though.
Hey welcome to blogdom. Here's a story for you. I, too, am 30 with a 4 year old, a 1.5 year old and one on the way (God bless my wife). Anyway a few months ago my daughter was playing with some toys on the kitchen floor while dinner was being prepared. My son (the youngest) soon joined her and picked up a Monsters Inc toy which he proceeded to show me. However, I was unprepared. I turned around just as he lifted it up and SCRUNCH!!!!!!! Yeah, he got me THERE. :( As I rolled around the floor my daughter came up and had the nerve to say, "Daddy, if you have to go potty, you better hurry before you pee your pants."
I tried to forget this event, but your story bought up even the most painful memory. :)
MJ
We've been planning for years to "consolidate" toys by having the kids pick out the ones they must have and donating the rest...somewhere.
Jibbs I've got four kids and if THAT or a similar event doens't happen at least once a day I'm probably out of town--or I feel as if I'm not spending enough time with them.
Josh
"...the word of God is not bound."
--2 Timothy 2:9
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