It’s Monday and there are a few things I’d like to rant about. Selfishness. Motherhood. The current state of elementary schools in Ontario.
But let’s start the week off on a lighter note.
I feel like I spend my life putting away random things. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, someone should write a dissertation on the random patterns of ‘stuff’, which I imagine we’d finally discover, if we took the time to study it, aren’t actually that random.
My home acts as a base for my business, which means that the main floor of our house generally needs to stay tidy. On Saturday night, in preparation for a busy Monday of sessions, I started putting away some of the plethora of randomness that had accumulated in our house over the course of the last six hours. That’s right I had a session on Saturday morning yet by Saturday evening the random had once again taken over the main floor of our house.
On our kitchen counter there is a toaster and a coffee maker, some green bananas and a telephone.. Lets play ‘some of these things are not like the others’ in amongst the crumbs.
1. My husband’s wallet, which has it’s very own drawer in the front hall closet.
2. A roll of red tape. I’m not sure why we have red tape and I don’t remember ever seeing it being used but there’s not much left on the roll leaving me to wonder if I’m going to come across a random item in the house that we’ll never be able to un-tape.
3. A small flashlight which the middle takes to bed with him every night.
4. A mini hockey stick which I swear I last saw in the garage.
5. A cheap plastic toy lizard that the middle and little actually fight over because they both love it so much. That’s right ignore the $100′s of dollars of LEGO over there in the corner…
6. Money. This is shocking in and of itself because between us we don’t usually have more than a quarter or a few pennies. The last time the big lost a tooth we had to ‘borrow’ $2 from Grandpa to cover our tooth fairy bill.
7. A soother. We have a baby in the house so of course there’d be a soother on the counter. This would make sense if our baby actually used a soother. He doesn’t.
Play along! What’s on your counter that doesn’t belong there?
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Fabulous! There’s already a new pile on my counter but 95% of it is paper.
Like Chantal, my list is waaay too long
So I’ll just give you just one…I have four mini gingerbread houses that we did as an advent activity over the holidays. Why have I not thrown them out yet? I have no idea. Now that I have realized how ridiculous this is, they will be thrown into the green bin 
I’m impressed that they’re on your counter and not being picked at by kids!
It’s Monday so a lot! A busy weekend results in a backlog
A bag of hundreds of beads painstakingly picked off the kitchen floor, 9 batteries waiting to be properly disposed of, a to be crazy glued pile (a new one every week it seems), a confiscated paper towel tube/weapon, the play dough that keeps being mistaken as food, bactine (it’s probably best to keep this handy), various toddler confiscated objects including: a ds, a pin, a coin, a guitar pic, a candle with bite marks, etc, etc.
I soon realized why the hockey stick was on the counter: when placed in the hands of a child it’s not used for sport but as a weapon
hahahha I love the last one (soother) as this seemed like the most logical of all items. Silly me for assuming the baby used it.
I have 5 different kinds and he has no interest in any of them. Apparently the middle found this one under the couch
This is cute. When I saw the wallet and flashlight, I immediately thought of things (hubby’s watch, e.g.) that we found in the trash when our daughter was going through the sorting & helpful stage. She must have known I don’t like to do dishes and tossed a piece or two of her Pooh set in there, also. Some things came up missing that we never did find.
Tonight there was two crafts ready to be ironed (perler beads). After knocking them five times and having to recreate my sons patterns I was extra motivated to get them finished!
A basket of clean, folded laundry (I can’t complain about that one – the laundry is FOLDED!), an empty water bottle (that has a home in another cupboard on the other side of the kitchen), baby locks that don’t work on our cupboards, a note Jake wrote at school telling us “Monday is Sensday. Ware read.”, a syringe, a hair elastic (have you seen my hair . . . no one in this house even has hair long enough for a hair elastic), a bracket for the curtain rods that fell down earlier this week and play money (even if it was only a quarter and some pennies, I’d still settle for real money).
I think our counters probably look a lot alike! Love the note he wrote
Oh, my. How much time do you have? A pile of empty jam/mason jars, two DVDs, a mini screwdriver, a bottle of Elmer’s white glue, a party invitation, two bags and one Ziploc container full of fridge magnets (recently found in the basement), a basket of bibs no one wears anymore (kids are 3 and 6), a pile of “special” things (cards, notes) belonging to my husband for which he has yet to find a “special” storage space, a stack of interesting recipes to try, broken items to be repaired with glue, a child’s camera, and a plethora of recyclables that have yet to be recycled!
I think homes with kids could benefit from a ‘broken’ basket because our counter is always covered with things that need to be repaired! Hmmmm a Tidy-Up Tuesday post in the making…