The Out of Place, Incongruent (But Not At All Surprising) Discoveries Within My Own Home
- A lone boot on the kitchen floor.
2. A clear plastic, glow in the dark, rat on the arm of my favorite chair. (WHO on earth gave one of my children this? No. Seriously. Tell me who bought that for my child because I want to buy THEM a little something something.)
3. The dishwasher door hanging wide open.
4. A water bottle on the living room floor.
5. A bath mat sopping wet in the middle of the day.
6. Two green peas floating in the toilet.
7. 600 tiny squares of cut up white paper on the school room floor.
8. A mason jar with cookies being used as a book mark.
9. Toy wooden blocks holding up more than half of all the furniture in our home due to the slanted floors.
10. Keys that no one can identify hanging on the key rack. But we are afraid to toss them because what do they go to?
11. Lego men taking up residence in the freezer.
12. Completely empty jars of pickles in the fridge.
Of course, the very obvious to me truth is – even though I’d like a tidy house, I prefer the chaos that comes from many young people living in my home. The messy floors and the sticky handles are all evidences of a home filled with laughter and crazy. Overflowing with sibling quarrels and sibling cuddles, of late night craft projects and homeschool supplies. Friends over to visit and people living life together. A home teeming with the very stuff that makes a house a home.
And if the unflushed toilets and the shoes under the dining room table and the muddy footprints across the dining room floor are the price to pay to wake up to these faces, well then – I’ll pay it.
What’s quite normally out of place at your home?
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8 Comments
Amy Holmes
Since #4 was born, I feel like nothing is ever really IN place.
laceykeigley
I think that feeling is perfectly normal.
Amanda Wood
Always dust bunnies. Everywhere. All. The. Time.
Dirty sinks.
Stacks of paper work and business cards.
Don’t they know my need for structure and order?!?
laceykeigley
ha. dust bunnies at your house?
I’m asking you to prove it!
Stacks of paper are so hard to deal with. They have NO home.
Lana
As empty nesters our kitchen table is always a mess because we only use one end of it. We did find a house and I hope to do better once we move since it is all a great room living space and it will just be there and visible always.
It makes me happy to find little sticky hand prints on my French doors when the grandchildren have been here. Sometimes I clean around them and just leave them there.
laceykeigley
I’m SO glad you found a home!!! Very exciting!
And yes – we suffer from the same kitchen table issue – just leave an end for me to put all my stuff. Ugh.
Sara
Legos-always and forever under my bare feet
The central vac–Melvin says its part of our decor :/
laceykeigley
Legos. Forever and always Legos.