You know when you enter someone's house and it smells great? That's not my house. When I make bread it is. When I scrub my house from top to bottom it is. But day to day, unfortunately no.
As I type this I have a garbage pail out back waiting to get scrubbed, a shoe basket out front because the kids shoes stink, a knockoff Scentsy from Walmart burning, a load of whites washing filled with grotesquely smelly socks, a dog hiding because he knows he's getting a bath, a 7 year old boy who comes home from school every day with dirt encrusted hands due to a handball addiction and an altoid in my mouth for good measure.
Remember the good ol' days when you loved your baby's breath? You literally couldn't get enough. Those days are so long gone for me. These days when my kids are in my face (always) they barely get a word in before I am telling them to go brush their teeth. Not for their dental hygiene, which is important, but becuase I want them to have friends.
The whole smelly shoe situation came about because the kids don't want to wear socks. Why? Apparently it takes far too long. So on top of everything else I have to check before they walk out the door to see if they put on socks.
Oh, and I still have to remind these darling kids way too often to flush the toilet.
They may be stinky, but doggone it, they're CUTE!
ReplyDeleteI agree! Your kids are adorable!!
DeleteSame here....you dont know how many time i have to repeat flush the toilet!!
ReplyDeleteNow this sounds familiar... Our trash bin is often found outside when we have company. The last thing I want to do is open it and have someone wonder if I tooted. ;o)
ReplyDeleteThe same thing goes for the toilets when company comes over - I have to run around like mad to make sure that all four toilet bowls are clean!
Teehee, "...but becuase I want them to have friends." Totally giggled at that.
ReplyDelete---Oooo, that is VEeeeeeRY Stinky!
ReplyDeletebut the kids are
a d o r a b l e !!!!
My daughter should invest in fabreze she uses it so often! Wow, your friend is pregnant with #7??!! Wowza! She looks radiant though!
ReplyDeleteLook at those faces! Who cares if they have socks on or their shoes are smelly!! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAwww, you're too sweet Fran.
DeleteAh, yes. My boys, I love 'em, but they're really stinky. And my daughter, she's not that much better.
ReplyDeleteOh for sure, my girls feet are just as bad!
DeleteGood thing they are so cute! :)
ReplyDeletePeople just smell in general, it's gross.
ReplyDeleteI know, maybe I'll get some perfume for Mother's Day.
DeleteHa! Put crumpled up newspapers in the shoes and, overnight, they will lose the stink.
ReplyDeleteReally? Thanks.
Deletehahaha!!! I love this!!!!
ReplyDeleteHahaha I was always that kid who didn't want to wear socks ;)
ReplyDeleteHa! Is it bad that I have the same problem with my husband? A mother's work is apparently never done...
ReplyDeleteyes, a mother's job is NEVER done..... and sometimes it stinks! :) keep telling yourself that one day you'll miss all those smelly smiles and feet! :)
ReplyDeleteI am totally joining up with your children - in a perfect world, I would roam freely and barefoot.
ReplyDeleteWhile Marcus isn't totally stinky, I definitely see wrangling him and his possessions as some sort of cosmic practice for when I have to wrangle the kids' things.
I went barefoot so often as a kid too! And I caught bees in my hands. I was really smart.
DeleteHaha! Yup, we totally have those days in our house too. ;D
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Your kids are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteToo funny about the toilet:) My teens shoes stink too when he is home. My husband's exercise clothes stink horribly! I won't put them in a basket or load with anything else and he washes them himself.
ReplyDeleteOh, this is our house too! Smelly shoes, smelly shin guards, smelly gym bags, beautiful little girls with rotten breath, toilets that are not flushed (is it really that hard to get this one down as a routine in life) and on top of that, we have stink bugs and they are called that for a reason.
ReplyDeleteHope you are baking something that smells nice to cover up the stench! Oh, and at least you know that if your house does stink, we all understand it :-)
Kids stink. And so do dogs.
ReplyDeleteWhy do they refuse to wear socks? Mine do the same and it's just nasty.
AHAHAHHAHAHA. this is so, so true of life.
ReplyDeleteas hikers, we are no stranger to STANK.
just wait till your kiddos start having BO, that's the worst. my neice already has it and it just kills me.
Ha! I just bought essential oils to combat summer stinky dog.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh...life is glamorous isn't it!?
ReplyDeletehahahha this post made me laugh soooo super hard... We have a shoe bucket downstairs and I keep it in the closet... It's also stuffed with air fresheners... I am a freak about smells.. I don't know what I will do when my kids start to smell worse.. ;)
ReplyDelete:)) I don't believe you. They're too cute!
ReplyDeleteI wonder why our darlings tend to forget simple things. Nah, kids. Those shoes might stink but I bet you will miss those. Next thing you will notice is that your darlings would start wearing their heels.
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