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Mar. 1st, 2007 11:47 amBrad's brother, his wife, and their almost one year old daughter will be here this evening. They are staying until Sunday.
I'm totally exhausted and it isn't even noon yet. I've vacuumed and mopped the entire ground floor of our house this morning. Of course, that involved some picking up and you have to dust first, right? So pick up, dust, vacuum, mop. I always feel like it is pointless to do it any earlier when people are coming. It will look like crap in a couple of hours anyway. Someone will dump out crayons all over the sunroom, spill juice in the kitchen, pull down ten books in the library and leave them on the floor, track mud in from outside (geez, I hate melting snow), etc. I hope the people that come to my house realize that we actually LIVE here...ALL the time. It is never going to look like a showplace because we are here messing it up 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Have you who have young children ever walked around your house, bent over to scan walls and doors at about the eye level of your kids? Ugh.
I also keep looking around and seeing how UN-babyproofed our house is now. We never covered all the outlets or put toddler guards on the doorknobs and we don't even own a babygate anymore. In about six hours there will be a very curious toddler in this house and I'm a wee bit scared. I hope it will be okay. The playroom is FULL of choking hazards. We have a glass and wrought iron coffee table in the hearth room. We had that thing in storage for three years, but now it is finally out...and dangerous. Our last house would have been quite safe, but we left all that behind along with toddlerhoods in San Antonio.
I'm totally exhausted and it isn't even noon yet. I've vacuumed and mopped the entire ground floor of our house this morning. Of course, that involved some picking up and you have to dust first, right? So pick up, dust, vacuum, mop. I always feel like it is pointless to do it any earlier when people are coming. It will look like crap in a couple of hours anyway. Someone will dump out crayons all over the sunroom, spill juice in the kitchen, pull down ten books in the library and leave them on the floor, track mud in from outside (geez, I hate melting snow), etc. I hope the people that come to my house realize that we actually LIVE here...ALL the time. It is never going to look like a showplace because we are here messing it up 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Have you who have young children ever walked around your house, bent over to scan walls and doors at about the eye level of your kids? Ugh.
I also keep looking around and seeing how UN-babyproofed our house is now. We never covered all the outlets or put toddler guards on the doorknobs and we don't even own a babygate anymore. In about six hours there will be a very curious toddler in this house and I'm a wee bit scared. I hope it will be okay. The playroom is FULL of choking hazards. We have a glass and wrought iron coffee table in the hearth room. We had that thing in storage for three years, but now it is finally out...and dangerous. Our last house would have been quite safe, but we left all that behind along with toddlerhoods in San Antonio.
