No. Not like the Stone’s song. More like, my little cherub. So, we had gotten a bunch of deliveries lately and they were all sitting in our front hallway. You know, exciting stuff. Paper for the printer. Toner for the printer. Oh, but I did get my frames in for the Have you Felt It?!? class on Tuesday night. Crafty goods are always exciting. But I digress. So anyway, told Oliver that we could play, but there was a lot of cleaning that had to be done around the house. Had to clean up those boxes in the front hall and needed to spiff his room a bit since some more toys from the living room were going to have to move up there. So I’m picking up the boxes downstairs and obviously not paying attention because my child disappears for about ten minutes. Later I hear “MUMMA! You need to come up here! I helped sort everything in my room!!!” So I go up the stairs and it’s sorted alright. Holy Hannah. He’s pulled EVERYTHING out of his drawers. shirts, pants, undies, socks, etc are all in piles of “star wars”, “spiderman”, “stuff I like”, “stuff Mimi bought me that I’ll never wear, but she insists that I love it”, etc. You get the idea. A minor set back to the day, but pretty darn funny. Below, top picture is a proud boy on an unmade bed with the spiderman and star wars piles. I think I also see a pair of shrek undies in the back that he won’t wear. Not sure what that pile is, but….
Should have taken a wider angle of the whole room. seriously, it looked like a clothes factory exploded. There were clothes draped everywhere. It did turn out well though, as I went through all clothes and removed those that he will not wear, and those that are too small. I have no idea who to give them to now that my friend Wendy’s son Jackson has passed Oliver by. (Link is to Wendy’s Tastefully simple business — check out the chocolate fondue we had New Year’s eve – seriously YUM-MY! If you live in the Southern NH area, she’s also a kick @$$ realtor! She can help you buy a house and then fill the pantry. Can’t get much better than that, eh?)
Today took a little break from the house. Demolition on my living room disaster starts Monday. We have no plans to fix said living room until spring/summer when we’re sure it won’t pour in on us anymore, but apparently the insurance company insists that we remove all soggy ceilings/walls, etc like now. Also, that’s good because then maybe we can fix our phone. Can’t say that I’ve been missing the political calls, but a phone would be useful for other things. Anyway, got away from the house to watch Andy’s wrestling match. He was rockin’ today. We saw two matches (he MAY have had a third. Oliver, a.k.a. the rashpot, broke out in hives so badly that we had to leave for some Benedryl.) Anyway, the first one Andy pinned in under a minute I think and the second one was pinned in seconds. Unfortunately because of the multischool meet, the clock was on some table somewhere — no one could see it, so I can only guess. I was trying to take pictures, but the darn matches were so exciting it brough people to their feet….
I try to be a good parent and set a good …. calm … example in the stands, but I was pretty mad at this one. Andy got the take down and went right into a pin. So so fast. And I WOULD have had a picture….And this is why I need to go down to the floor to take pictures. Lesson learned.
Anyway, I was hoping to post an assignment tonight for “work your art” series I wanted to do weekly this year. I think we may skip the first week as I’m heading downstairs to clear out the few remaining items in the living room. Really, I need to organize the other rooms a bit as I need to clear out some of our bedroom as well. The bathroom, thankfully, can stay mostly the way it is. I don’t care if they get junk and crud all over counters etc. Just need to move the toothbrushes under the cupboards — shouldn’t take but a second.
