So, in our house we have limited spacing right now. We'll eventually need to move to a bigger home but until then, we are a bit snug. :) We have 3 boys sharing one room which isn't actually that unusual. I think we've had 3 kids in a room for the good majority of our marriage. That's what you get for having a big family in apartments. So, here's their room (notice the cleared off top bunk - explanation to come).
Matthew sleeps on the car bed and the two older boys sleep on the top bunk. It's a little tight so sometimes Jacob sleeps better on the floor (we lay down some cushions) or occasionally in Brandon's bed downstairs. There just isn't enough room for another bed in there.
Well, I went up to the boys top bunk because they had a couple of cups sitting on the wood frame that were leaking. They each sleep in one of those small child thin sleepover type of sleeping bags instead of using blankets and I noticed their sleeping bags were stuffed full and had some hard things in them. I decided to see what they were keeping in them.
What the....???
List of things hidden inside their sleeping bags:
A baseball bat (yes, a foam covered full sized baseball bat)
A sudoku book with pencil (you would think that this would mean they are smart... apparently not)
A light-saber, fully extended
A stuffed dragon
Board book
Regular book
Lego set (mostly in pieces)
About a dozen Lego magazines (maybe to find clues on how to put the lego set together?)
About another dozen Bionicle comic books, including posters from the wall
Puzzle pieces (to different chunky wood puzzles, not the thin ones)
Disneyland souvenier (little light up flashlight type thing)
Jacob's shoe that he spent a very long time looking for this morning (and gave up)
Matthew's shoe
A full size pillow
A large quilt (queen size)
A small blanket
Another pillow
Pez candy dispenser (maybe they were hungry?)
Ball puzzle game thing
Lego cheat codes for a Nintendo DS game they have
Nintendo DS game
Nintendo DS system (obviously they are playing games when they're not supposed to)
A large baby ball type toy
Nintendo DS headphones
One single clean Matthew sock
A pajama shirt (hey, perfect for mopping up the water mess!)
I'll bet they slept well.
Will kids go to no end to hide stuff they are supposed to put away? The odd thing is - LOOK AT THEIR ROOM! Besides the small pile of stuff I took off their bed, do you see how NOT clean their room is? It's not like they actually truly made it look clean to start with.
Lucky for them, they'll come home to washed sheets, sleeping bags, and pillows nicely placed on their bed. They'll just have the stuff on their floor to worry about.
Unlucky for them - anytime I "help" clean, I fill at least one large garbage bag with stuff to throw away or donate. Someday they'll realize that if they want their stuff left alone, they'll have to make sure I don't need to go in after them... :)
(Matthew had to have a part of the picture taking this morning.) See how funny he thinks this is? Look Matthew! I'm
4 comments:
my mom used to help us clean our room. I shared a room with my two younger sisters till I was 13 and that is a lot of stuff in a room. My mom would come in with the broom and start brushing it all down the stairs and then she would start at the bottom of the stairs and gather it all up in a garbage bag and we would scramble from the top of the stairs and hurry to put it all away, anything that my mom collected in her bag had to be bought back by us. Not fun. I do not do the same thing to my kids, I just go and clean their room when it is messy.
Totally. Been. There.
And my boys thought you had a picture of their room on your blog! We have the same loft bed with a racecar bed underneath with the same amount of toys on the floor!!
Our family is a twin of yours. Let's get together.
That looks just like my kids rooms!
Love this
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