A Little Blogger Honesty

In so many situations in life we try to put our best foot forward, present ourselves in a positive light; even when blogging we tidy up the little messes before we take some pictures, put on a little lip gloss, post the nicest pictures and leave out the less attractive aspects of stories. Today ladies I'm going to expose the ugly truth about my life. Ready ... sometimes I do nothing all day long and my house is a mess, no really it's true.

Tuesday we were all set to go to the YMCA, my plan was to have everyone out the door by 8:30 a.m., have the kids checked into childcare and I would head off to my spin class. At 10:00 a.m. I would hit the locker room and maybe have little steam or perhaps a soak in the whirlpool, by 11:45 pick-up the kids from childcare, usher them into the change room and get them into the pool for their swimming lessons. The bag was packed the night before, even lunch was made so we could eat there, a special treat for the boys. When I received a call from the Y this morning that swimming lessons were cancelled due to an unexpected maintenance of the pool (hhhhmmm, wonder what that means, don't really want to know) I can't say that I was totally disappointed as wonderful as my morning plans sounded I was exhausted; I could barely get myself out of bed this morning and actually fell asleep while both children were downstairs unattended HORRORS you say; I dreamt that someone was standing on the toilet and was peeing huge amounts all over the floor; I was awoken by Matt coming into my room saying "Mommy Cam took his diaper off again, all by hisself". Yeesh, (that's not what I really said) and I rolled over and got out of bed, brushed my teeth and stumbled downstairs. My mantra? Coffee before oatmeal, coffee before oatmeal. The kids can wait, the dog can wait, I need serotonin NOW!

So I sat my children down with their oatmeal and turned on the television for them. GASP! I took my coffee went into the other room and turned on the television for myself and that's pretty much where I spent my day; on the couch watching television and checking my email. That is the dirty rotten truth of my life, well for today anyway.

My children ran amok, they did what they wanted, I attempted potty training, but gave up before lunch after three wet messes and others too horrible to mention. For lunch I threw two Sesame Sunbutter and Raspberry Jam sandwiches on the picnic table outside and watched my children scramble like little seagulls to gobble them up, turned around and sat down on the couch. I ate blue non-organic corn chips with are you ready ... non-organic salsa for lunch and an OMG Coke. My children tired from playing outside with no clothes on and no SUNSCREEN (can you believe that?) okay stop screaming at the computer they are not burned, sat down on the couch beside me and ate corn chips until the bowl was empty, then toddled off outside again to play in the sprinkler which they hooked up and turn on all by themselves.

So here is the proof that I am not in fact perfect (sssshhh... don't tell Al the Man) a photo exposé of my Tuesday. Dare you to do the same.


The playroom/family room (why is playroom one word and family room two?)










Yes, that is a diaper cover (a clean one) sitting on the kitchen table. Shocked?


You would think that at least the Laundry Room would be clean. Nope. Hey, there's the Yahtzee game, I was wondering where that was.


Clean Laundry waiting to be be folded and my agenda (at least it's on the top of the pile).





This is where I spent my day.


Boys outside, not properly clothed.


The sprinkler that Matt climbed the fence to set-up.


Cam's shoe in the dog's dish.

By 7:00 p.m. Matt was still outside playing with the hose but I made him come in because he was spraying water in the house and getting the clean dishes in the dishwasher all wet, like I need to dry dishes. Yeesh. The house was still a disaster and Al was due home any minute (not that I cared ... really) so it was time to do the 10 second tidy up and the house was tidy within a half an hour. I even managed to make my bed today. Kind of makes me wonder why I worry so much about cleaning up all day long, just let it go and do it all in half an hour. Now I admit the laundry is still on the dining room table, however laundry is perpetual and you can come here on any given day and find the table full of laundry so really it wasn't necessary that I fold it and put it away because it will just be replaced with more tomorrow.

So how did my boys end their incredibly unstructured day ...






No rules, no naps, no bedtime, they had a great day.