Lifes little mysteries

How does toothpaste end up on the wall behind the toilet when the toilet is in a different room than the sink?

Why do we find useful things like - game pieces, spoons and pony tail holders in the garbage, but children can't find a place for the garbage they have in their room?

Why would we put mated socks in the dirty clothes, but dirty underwear in the drawer?

Must we really keep all this dust?

When will they figure it out??????

We don't want mom knowing that we snuck granola bars upstairs, so instead of eating them and throwing away the evidence, we're going to eat them and shove all the evidence (wrappers) behind the TV upstairs. Really - think about it...put it under the dirty diaper in the garbage, mom won't dig under there.

When we don't want to brush our teeth we use excuses such as "I can't find my toothbrush" not knowing that mom has a case of tooth brushes and can access them in a matter of seconds. Interestingly enough - when we find 13 toothbrushes in a bathroom that is shared between two girls, they get to clean the bathroom with it - they still can't learn - if you can't find your toothbrush, look behind the toilet near the toothpaste.

Did you know milk spills disappear if you don't feel like wiping them up all the way after you spill...yep, they dry and go invisible.

Rub spilled lemonade into the floor, it looks just like water and will also dry clear.

Sucker sticks and Popsicle sticks belong in couch cushions. So do candy wrappers and toenails.

Various ramblings

One down - six to go...weeks of swim team! The time of year I have all my kids in the car dressed fed and out the door by 6:45 in the morning. This year, we get a little break, though - instead of staying at the pool until 2, we get to leave at 11!!! Yes, indeed! Except starting next week, Rossi will be doing lifeguarding again - and I'll have to figure out a way to get him home at 1:00. Can't WAIT until he has a license!

Mopping the kitchen floor. I know I'm not the only one...but mopping is so dissatisfying - because regardless of the frequency of mopping, inevitably before it dries, something will be magnetically attracted to the clean spot.

I was determined to stay on top of keeping my kitchen floor clean. I mopped it and forbade the kids access. As I was chilling lemonade for dinner that night - (yah - go ahead - complete the sentence - yep, you're right...) I spilled it on the ground. Not just a little spill, it was very wet, very ALL over the place, and very sticky - so I remopped it - again forbidding the children access.

Brynn was cleaning her room and wanted to put the cups that she found there into the sink...but before going into the kitchen, she asked if she could do it (what a good child, huh?)

"Yes, but put them in the sink and then come right out."

Previous to cleaning her room, she was riding her three-wheeler barefoot in the driveway - so her barefoot dirty feet tracked through my almost dry floor leaving little footprints. Indeed.

I'm never going to mop again - I think it's better to just have dirt on top of dirt...why do I need a clean floor? I don't...it's not like if I drop food, I'd pick it up and eat it if it were a clean floor - nope, it all goes in the trash, right? Why mop?

I think it would be cool to make some kind of kitchen floor liner - you know how you line your cookie sheets w/ aluminum foil so you don't have to wash them when you're done baking - just toss the aluminum foil...we should make something like that for floors. When you spill lemonade on it - just peel it up & throw it out.