The Missing Pieces
My husband and I stayed up really late on Christmas night to make sure we sorted all the old toys and arranged all the new toys so that our living room actually looked like a living room instead of a disaster. We were so proud of ourselves that not only could we actually see our floors, we had even LESS of a mess than BEFORE all the new toys! Here we are, not even two weeks later, and my nerves were shot with all of the missing pieces from the new toys! Yes, there are certain things that completely irk me and actually make me anxious… when my kids mix the colors of the PlayDoh and when puzzles, games and other toys are missing a piece or two (or 10!) I recognize that I have a problem, but of course there could be much worse problems to have, right?
I spent the majority of the day today doing laundry and tearing apart my living room (AGAIN!), sorting the toys, finding the missing pieces, sweeping (and sweeping and sweeping and sweeping… these kids always seem to find a snack and then find there way into the living room when I am on the floor or in a corner and can’t see them!) and rearranging. I am happy to report that all of the puzzles (except one… but I am on a mission to find that one piece) have all of their pieces and all of the games (except one… GRRR) are in their respective boxes with all the pieces intact.
I can be pretty certain that by the end of the week things will be a mess again. I try and try to keep things in order, I put things with small pieces in the closet, I have cases and containers for all blocks and such, but no matter what I do and how I teach my kids to clean up after themselves, they always manage to make a mess. My kids are wiseguys, too! I keep saying “Only one toy at a time. When you are done with a toy, put that away and you can take out a new toy” And of course I am always met with some comment like “But Mom! I am playing with these blocks and JoeJoe is playing with those cars!” or something like that. I have tried again and again to get them all to play with one toy at a time (all three boys) but so far, no luck. So with three toddlers each playing their own toy, we are bound to mix up some pieces!
Ugh. I guess I just have to deal with this until they are teenagers! LOL!
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