so what are you thinking right now?

[bunnee585]

Don't even get me started on their room! :gah:

Well thankfully we don't allow any liquids or food upstairs, or I would have to also deal with no dishes I'm sure!
We have white carpet throughout the upper floor - did that to ensure no one (especially DH with his **** leaky coffee cups) takes food or drink upstairs.

 

[fords8]

Well thankfully we don't allow any liquids or food upstairs, or I would have to also deal with no dishes I'm sure!
We have white carpet throughout the upper floor - did that to ensure no one (especially DH with his **** leaky coffee cups) takes food or drink upstairs.

Smart! I find food crap ALL over. Just found what looke like dried chocolate pudding splattered on their wooden bunk beds. :gah: Their berber carpet is pretty stained. :surrender: One time I walked into their room. DS was sitting on the floor playing and there was a spilt drinkable yogurt on the floor (dried into the carpet). He said he didn't know how to clean it up so he did nothing. ullhair:

 

[bunnee585]

Smart! I find food crap ALL over. Just found what looke like dried chocolate pudding splattered on their wooden bunk beds. :gah: Their berber carpet is pretty stained. :surrender: One time I walked into their room. DS was sitting on the floor playing and there was a spilt drinkable yogurt on the floor (dried into the carpet). He said he didn't know how to clean it up so he did nothing. ullhair:

I got that once in the bathroom with red nail polish. Good thing it was a temporary sink/counter. Now nails are done in the kitchen, at the table, with newspaper and papertowels under their hands.
Mine do learn quick once I "freak out".

 

[dgmarie]

I got a letter from my daughter from camp today. A real, two page letter!!

Like with paper and pen and stamp? :faint:

Is she having a good time?

YES! With a real pen and real paper and real spelling errors!

She's having a good time but somehow lost all the envelopes I sent her with to camp. And she's had to use her inhaler twice this week (hmmm), and something rather rambling about only being able to take a 5 minute shower.

I get photos from the camp on their blog, but since I am not getting any descriptions, I'm left to my own imagination!

:snicker:

http://fromsuburbia.blogspot.com/

 

[Valerie]

Two more hours....that's all, two more hours and then I can go to bed. I can do this!!! SO TIRED!!

 

[jll2375]

I'm thinking I'm tired of picking up after my kids!!! They leave **** all over...........pudding lid here, dirty socks there, paper plates everywhere, etc. I just follow them around all day picking up their messes. Just now I found and ice cube sitting on the wood floor melting. They both denied leaving it there and said they wouldn't pick it up. Oh really?! That was the last straw.......I started screaming like a G-damned lunatic at the top of my lungs!!! They both cleaned it up then. :ranting:

:shesaid: :ranting: My 7 year old niece is like this - and her 2 year old sister sees it and tries to do the same :gah: but at least the 2 year old listens when I tell her to do something. I am constantly on the 7 year old to pick up stuff, to throw it away, or to put it where it belongs. She rolls her eyes at me and tells me that I'm mean. The 7 year old can not find anything in her room at home, my house is not about to look like that.
At home she will eat anywhere and just leave stuff wherever when she's done with it. She also gets mad when I don't let her eat in my car (absolutely not! I've seen the mess she can make).

 

[fords8]

I'm thinking freyguy is an attention seeking jackass who should go on EC to get the attention he craves.

 

[freyguy50]

I'm thinking freyguy is an attention seeking jackass who should go on EC to get the attention he craves.

I am officially in your head!

 

[icoupon2]

Mistah's DS8 has to follow the same rules I had for my kids when they were that age.

1. Everything is eaten at the table, napkin in your lap, pulled all the way up to the table

2. Nothing liquid in the bedroom ever, including glue, paint, glitter or other crafty crap like that
If you want to craft you do it supervised over newspaper at the table.

3. You have "your towels" so I will know exactly who left it on the floor (this irks me because it's one of the rules he tries to get away with breaking and he leaves them on the carpet. That doesn't fly with me.

Anything not cleaned up when you are told to clean your room (especially after it's "declared clean") i.e. shoved under the bed or the dresser etc. goes in a rubber bin in the basement for a week.

 

[lf5058]

Mistah's DS8 has to follow the same rules I had for my kids when they were that age.

1. Everything is eaten at the table, napkin in your lap, pulled all the way up to the table

2. Nothing liquid in the bedroom ever, including glue, paint, glitter or other crafty crap like that
If you want to craft you do it supervised over newspaper at the table.

3. You have "your towels" so I will know exactly who left it on the floor (this irks me because it's one of the rules he tries to get away with breaking and he leaves them on the carpet. That doesn't fly with me.

Anything not cleaned up when you are told to clean your room (especially after it's "declared clean") i.e. shoved under the bed or the dresser etc. goes in a rubber bin in the basement for a week.

Hey, my 46 years old husband can use the rules!!

 

[icoupon2]

Was my goal for my kids - to teach them good cleaning habits so it wouldn't be a shock when they had to grow up and do it themselves :giggles:

DS16 has OCD so he never has to be told to clean, he's got that well in hand (and then some). DD18 will do it when she HAS to, but she'd rather not...EVER. Sigh....

Hey, my 46 years old husband can use the rules!!

 

[fords8]

I asked my almost 13 year old son to vacuum today. He said no, he does not like to vacuum. I asked him if he thought washing racing stripes out of underwear sounded more appealing.

I don't like to.. wth are ya kidding me?!?! :gah:

 

[jonnysmomma]

I asked my almost 13 year old son to vacuum today. He said no, he does not like to vacuum. I asked him if he thought washing racing stripes out of underwear sounded more appealing.

I don't like to.. wth are ya kidding me?!?! :gah:

Jonny washed dishes today, the whole time complaining. I told him that he had better get over himself in a hurry because he never hears me complaining about his birthday party and all the preparation I have to do for it. He said he was sorry and carried on...

 

[fords8]

Jonny washed dishes today, the whole time complaining. I told him that he had better get over himself in a hurry because he never hears me complaining about his birthday party and all the preparation I have to do for it. He said he was sorry and carried on...

Wow good mama! I was doing dishes at his age too............chair pushed up to the sink. Now I can only get my almost 12 year old to do them once in a blue moon. :surrender:
I do realize it's my fault.

 

[jonnysmomma]

Wow good mama! I was doing dishes at his age too............chair pushed up to the sink. Now I can only get my almost 12 year old to do them once in a blue moon. :surrender:
I do realize it's my fault.

Sigh, Moose doesn't need a chair pushed up... his chest is at sink level.

I do not want to feed him as a teenager.

 

[lf5058]

Was my goal for my kids - to teach them good cleaning habits so it wouldn't be a shock when they had to grow up and do it themselves :giggles:

DS16 has OCD so he never has to be told to clean, he's got that well in hand (and then some). DD18 will do it when she HAS to, but she'd rather not...EVER. Sigh....

Or a shock to their future partners. :giggles:

How hard it's to transfer clothes from washer to the dryer and turn it on?
I had dh do it yesterday because he was at the basement. The clothes are still wet this morning when I suddenly remember I have not seen the clothes!

 

[icoupon2]

Mistah is famous for leaving them in the dryer. I try to never let him do his own laundry for that reason, but there are only so many hours in a day :lol:

Or a shock to their future partners. :giggles:

How hard it's to transfer clothes from washer to the dryer and turn it on?
I had dh do it yesterday because he was at the basement. The clothes are still wet this morning when I suddenly remember I have not seen the clothes!

 

[luvagreatdeal]

Mistah's DS8 has to follow the same rules I had for my kids when they were that age.

1. Everything is eaten at the table, napkin in your lap, pulled all the way up to the table

2. Nothing liquid in the bedroom ever, including glue, paint, glitter or other crafty crap like that
If you want to craft you do it supervised over newspaper at the table.

3. You have "your towels" so I will know exactly who left it on the floor (this irks me because it's one of the rules he tries to get away with breaking and he leaves them on the carpet. That doesn't fly with me.

Anything not cleaned up when you are told to clean your room (especially after it's "declared clean") i.e. shoved under the bed or the dresser etc. goes in a rubber bin in the basement for a week.

We have a similar rule in this house. If you want to eat or drink something, then you do it at the kitchen table. Nowhere else in the house. The ONLY exception to this rule is when we do movie night at home and they are allowed to eat popcorn and drink juice on the sofa in the family room.

No meals or snacks in front of the tv ... not in this house. But ... DH and I do have snacks or ice cream in front of the tv sometimes after they go to bed ... :giggles:

 

[icoupon2]

Guilty :giggles:

I take sweets to bed with me every night. Magnum bars, cookies, a donut whatever LOL

And no one under the age of 10 is allowed to chew gum in the house or in my car. Been there...done that. Man I sound like a big meanie :lol:

We have a similar rule in this house. If you want to eat or drink something, then you do it at the kitchen table. Nowhere else in the house. The ONLY exception to this rule is when we do movie night at home and they are allowed to eat popcorn and drink juice on the sofa in the family room.

No meals or snacks in front of the tv ... not in this house. But ... DH and I do have snacks or ice cream in front of the tv sometimes after they go to bed ... :giggles:

 

[nicklesm17]

That I just want this day to end.


Tomorrow will be a new and better day. I hope.