Truthful Tuesday – Living Room Disaster

The living room is a mess. Shredded paper all over the floor, toys scattered, baskets dumped. A tornado of three children tore through the place, leaving destruction in their wake. This is only half of the chaos. There is also a brown paper path to the front door, a bucket of Legos dumped beside the couch, and crayon sharpener shreddings lightly dusted around the bottom of the staircase. It’s almost hypnotic.

And me? Well, I should be cleaning it up. But Saffron is napping, and the boys are at a friend’s house. I started the dishwasher and got the towels in the dryer. So I’m pretending that the mess isn’t there.

After all, who wants to spend their precious quiet time cleaning up? They’ll just make the mess again when they get home. I’ll make a quick sweep through before Michael gets home and hope it lasts until he walks through the door.

Tags: cleaning, home, kids, truthful tuesday

Summer is a freelance writer and mother of 3, searching for herself amongst the Legos and blocks. After moving a couple hundred miles away from home, and fighting a few dragons, she's figuring out that she needs to be her own biggest fan to get through the world.


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