Mom Style Accomplishments

Anyone with multiple children (and a husband) to look after, knows of this weird obsession with remaining on top of things that suddenly seems to happen over night. At first it starts out of necessity to impress play date visitors, outlaws/friends/random people who might stop by. When the outlaws visit and dishes litter your counter & sink yet you don't care; you've reached a new level of mother/wifehood. Whether that's a 'good' new level or not is debatable. The more children you add to your family the quicker you accelerate yourself to reach this organizational obsession! Suddenly, if a toy is littering the living room floor nearing nap or bed time, "pick up, pick up, everybody do their share" sing songs throughout the house until little hands are conned think it's fun to pick up pick up! You are scraping plates while the last bite of food is clumsily falling into the toddler's mouth off an over loaded oversized spoon. When each and every piece of clothing, minus what is on each family member's body, is washed, dried AND put away; your head hits the pillow with not only a sigh, but a deep sense of accomplishment comparable to acing a college final after 1 long night of cramming. Today my blog friends; gourmet style take out chip bags & sub wrappers from Jimmy Johns graces my garbage can, dishes from the past few days are littering my counter, laundry is mounded in various baskets (and a dirty sock still rests under the Christmas tree), but this is an accomplishment my type-A, organized obsessed fellow moms will truly appreciate ...

I am really tempted to go take some flash pictures of the boys' bedroom, Ella's bedroom, and the guest bathroom I washed down, dusted, vacuumed, washed mirrors/windows, & organized. I'd hate to awake the sleeping beasties, though. A before picture would really invoke the sense of accomplishment this picture gives me. The kids keep the floor clear around that jump house (that deflated red/blue thing), but each and every square inch of the floor was covered at least 1 toy, if not 2, 3 or 10 toys/packaging/garbage/wrapping paper scraps high. K, you are right 10 is a bit of an exaggeration, at least 9, though :) 

The icing on the cake is that I don't have to be that neighbor snooping around trying to find a garbage can with room for about 10 extra bags of garbage this week as it's FREE overflow trash day tomorrow. My kids will lose fingers, possibly limbs, if each and every piece of crap toy doesn't get put back in its' special home mom spent hours slaving to make it. They have all been warned, even the 10 month old! 

If you are haven't been on Facebook or don't follow me on there ... here's some more Christmas time excitement/long-enough-to-donate/yeah-for-losing-almost-25lbs/desperately-need-to-NOT-look-like-Mrs. Dugger hair do ... 

Which doesn't mean a whole lot if you don't see this

Or this ...